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#2 Creating Opportunities
It gets into your head, but mostly into your heart and senses; it is something vague until the object of desire materialises, and then you can reach out for it, touch it, possess it. At the cost of no matter what sacrifice. The love of making collections is a phenomenon the outcome of which may be a collection of cards but also a collection of excl...
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Dec 15, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: airport, alien cups, astists, charles de gaulle, collection, collector, collectors, cup, cups, darryl pottorf, david byrne, desire, facce italiane, folly, fossile cup | Leave A Comment »
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#20 Home Made
Your work shows your clear preference for the “manual” dimension, which we could express with the term “home made” – is this the result of a strong desire to rediscover your roots?
It is part of our background, connected to the place where we were born. We have never abandoned our roots. Although we work in São Paulo, Humberto and I ha...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: background, brazil, children, communicating, community, creativity, designs, desire, dialogue, dimension, experiences, feel, fernando campana, firms, hand made | Leave A Comment »
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#27 The Culture of Listening
Is the “listening” aspect a feature of your work as an architect?
First of all I’d like to give an example. Italo Calvino, on the subject of hearing (or listening), told a story that for me is extremely significant. There was a powerful man who once became king. From that time on, he decided not to move from his throne in case someone physi...
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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: demagogic, desire, hearing, italo calvino, king, listening, massimiliano fuksas, natural, on the street, people, pleasure, shapes, story, symbolic, throne | Leave A Comment »
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#21 Senti-mentally
In front a cup of coffee.
For me, the expression of emotion is never calculated.
I’ll wager that emotion is always there if the work is motivated by pleasure and desire. Since I often have too many ideas or desires, I usually start each project with endless lists, which I then cut into little strips and arrange in order of preference to make ...
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Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: budget, churchill, deinde philosophari, desire, emotion, endless list, exhaust, expression, facades, ideas, inpire, intuition, journey, le corbusier, light | Leave A Comment »
