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• To apply poetic license or to apply incorrect arrangements requires the idea or the understanding of correct arrangements - becoming an expert of the conventions of correct arrangements in order to misplace them. In other words, misplacing things with the understanding, or even the mastery, of normalcy is actually quite poetic. These are rule-based operations.

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  Understanding, Poetic

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• I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention to: the Franco-Belgian, the Japanese manga, and the American comics. I started thinking about the relationship between Japanese manga and Japanese architecture, or Franco-Belgian bande dessinée versus Franco-Belgian architecture, it began to make sense; there are parallels to the modes of operations and the cultures they belong to. If I didn't force myself to write, I would have no forum to clarify these thoughts. Writing is really helpful.

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  Writing, Thinking, Culture

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• In 500 years, English has changed a lot, and right now we're undergoing an extremely rapid rate of accelerated advancement in terms of technology, but I still have a hard time believing that we're going to stop speaking to each other. The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either. It's going to continue to create a cultural affect where people will be able to understand something beyond function that may otherwise be foreign to them.

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  Believe, Communication, Hard Times

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• The moment you put something down on paper it forces you to organize and arrange these thoughts a little better.

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  Paper, Littles, Moments

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• What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way for us to formulate a diagram of how people used to live.

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  Other Cultures, Cities, Interesting

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• Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.

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  Philosophy, Agreement, Mind

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• The obsession was so real and so prolonged. Sleeping was kind of like taking breaks from continuing the obsession.

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  Real, Sleep, Taking A Break

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• Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

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  Art, Acceptance, Vocabulary

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• Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect arrangements of meaningful things.

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  Meaningful, Drawing, Language

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• Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.

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  Artist, Body, Messages

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• I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to really output architecture as cultural artifact.

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  Believe, Thinking, Able

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• It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.

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  Philosophical, Reality, Political

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• I see architecture as a form of communication over time.

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  Communication, Architecture, Form

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