![]() ![]() "I wish the wind had a body“: Dynamic forces as the space for creating paradigms and changing a construction from static to dynamic…Today everything is conceivable – and presenting bold architecture in colourful announcements is simple. I tend to think of moving "step-by-step" with seven-mile boots. That was back then.Ī strategy of small steps has always been alien to me – against my personal nature – and still is today. Having become more patient though experience in life, we have realised in the meantime that back then, expecting everything to happen "immediately", we over- or, you might say, under-estimated politics, the people we worked for, and the dominating concept of aesthetics in design. ![]() It was back then in 1968 when we sought to change architecture now, immediately, and with a radical impact. Indeed, I see the statement made by Herman Melville in Moby Dick: "I wish the wind had a body" as the best description of architecture. (From Hamlet by William Shakespeare, second scene, A Hall in the Castle)Īctually we always wanted to build cloud architecture and cities changing like a field of clouds. POLONIUS: Heavens above, it really looks like a camel! HAMLET: Do you see the cloud over there, almost like a camel? But everything that embitters us human beings most and hurts us to the greatest extreme is body-less – but it is only body-less when you seek to grab it, not when it grabs you.“ ![]()
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