Virtuous State

"The love of variety is a vicious, corrupt, and unnatural taste and could not prevail in any great degree in a simple and virtuous state of society."

Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798

Haus KLR built by Jutta Klare and renovated by Archequipe - Cologne - 1980 & 2013

Via Dezeen

Adolf Loos - Villa Moller - Vienna - 1927/28

 Aldo Rossi - Scuola Elementare De Amicis - Broni - 1969/1971

Collective Memory

“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, 

and like memory it is associated with objects and places. 

The city is the locus of the collective memory.” 

Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City, 1982

Emmanuel Jablonski - Cropping Buildings - 2012 - via r. cruz niemiec

Graphical representation of the idealized human diploid karyotype - National Human Genome Research Institute - via wikipedia

Burgoyne Diller - Composition - 1941