I believe to record is to bear witness
“I believe to record is to bear witness.
I believe in the density of the sparse.
I believe in place and the spirit of place. “
- John Hejduk
Tidal Pull
Tidal Pull : Section 2010 Vine Charcoal
When an architect is thinking….
“When an architect is thinking, he’s thinking architecture and his work is always architecture, whatever form it appears in. No area is more architectural than any other.”……… John Hejduk
The Key
The key is light
and light illuminates shapes
and shapes have emotional power.
By the play of proportions
by the play of relationships
unexpected, amazing.
But also by the intellectual play
of purpose :
their authentic origin,
their capacity to endure,
structure,
astuteness, boldness, even temerity, the play
of those vital abstractions which are the essential qualities
the components of architecture.
Le Corbusier 1953
Basic Pleasures
For all men, in cities and in farms:
sun in the house,
sky through their windowpanes,
trees to look at as soon as they step outside.
I say: the basic materials of city planning are:
sun,
sky,
trees,
steel,
cement,
in that strict order of importance.
Le Corbusier
Orphanage
Basswood model Plan View
The Voice of an Artist
“A lot of people try to think up ideas. I’m not one.
I’d rather accept the irresistible possibilities of what I can’t ignore.”
Rauschenberg
Welcome back
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I’m back after a much needed and long delayed update to my Web Site.
Diagram / Richard Taransky Studio
Forum
City / Refuge
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Orphanage
Plan
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Baths
Baths of Caracalla Rome 2000
Pencil
Plaything
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Arkansas House
Section 2004
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Blind
A Library for the Blind 1976
Basswood model
Thesis from The Cooper Union
St Andrea
Sketchbook : Bernini, S Andrea
Portal detail Rome 2000
Sketch
Untitled
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Colony Block
Study Model : Plan View
Colony Block
Ground Plan
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Colony Block
Upper Level Plan
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