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Half Empty or Full ? 2009

Simply ….

The inspiration for my work comes from anonymous buildings and constructions, machinery, and landscapes.

Drawing to me is the autonomous cleaving and overlay of idea into matter and space.

This continued series of projects is created within an elemental reading of barrier; an animistic text of inside out.

“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

Richard Taransky is trapped in Philadelphia, a disfuctional community, but hopes to escape again someday.

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I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies - Le Corbusier
Architecture should invent programs for society. The discipline is in a position to do profound research on this. As some programs are invented and come upon us anew, others disappear. I don't think a 100-story office building, for example, is a program for our time. It has very little to do with our time - John Hejduk
Nostalgia is the poetic awareness of our personal past, and since the artist's own past is the mainspring of his creative potential, the architect must listen and heed his nostalgic revelations - Luis Barragan
Every problem, of whatever name or nature, contains and suggests it's own solution. - Louis Sullivan
The most difficult problems do not occur in the search for form, but rather in the attempt to create forms that are based on real human values. - Alvar Aalto
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