Work Thoughts #n+1

Thanks to the educational influence of work, I actually get this :

[Edit : forgot the obligatory link to the image source -> http://xkcd.com/ ]

Or, maybe I would have understood it loosely before, yet now it has a deeper significance.

Kind of like when you buy a car. You know that cars of make M and model , with color #abcdef (letters are variable here, not hex… otherwise it would be a sky blue car. Just so you know.) exist, yet you never truly notice them or attach any significance to them until you have a car that is very similar to it.

Our perceptional reality is thus heavily influenced by our hierarchy of significance.

Adults with Building Blocks

I’m pretty sure many architects are simply kids who couldn’t let go of their obsession with lego, choosing instead to move on to yet bigger building blocks. Now, you might laugh at such a statement, but wait – I have evidence.

Think about the blockiest thing you know. Ok, skip lego and its knockoffs – I talking about something you can use to build houses out of. Ok, skip brick and concrete blocks, they’re not big enough. Skip straw bales, they’re mostly used for insulation when used for construction – architects don’t want to think about sensible things like that. Ok, I’ll give you a hint :

“Hey!”, you say to yourself, “That’s really blocky!”

Yes, my friend, that is really blocky. And as a general rule, out of blocky stuff one can make bigger blocky stuff. And yes, you can quote me on that.

Take a look! Bigger blocky stuff :

(http://www.noticiasarquitectura.info/especiales/chk-lot-ek.htm)

At least we can console ourselves with the fact that this is a fad, right? No one is about to make a major construction project that looks that blocky! People wouldn’t stand for it.

(If you believe that, don’t look at the next picture…)

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67)

What fun!

I wonder where my Lego went…