Some corporate buildings are merely a neutral backdrop for workaday life. Others assault your soul with their monotonous blandness. I have inhabited both types. The lone picnic tables discovered outside the latter seem to suggest desperate measures; a hope that by taking a break in the out of doors one can somehow regain her humanity. Yet, isn't it the architect's responsibility to feed the spirit as well as house the body? The temporary nature of corporate buildings, with their so-called 7 year roofs, belie a cruelly spartan approach to design. Methinks we sometimes sacrifice too much in the name of efficiency.
21 April 2010
Soul Sacrifice
Some corporate buildings are merely a neutral backdrop for workaday life. Others assault your soul with their monotonous blandness. I have inhabited both types. The lone picnic tables discovered outside the latter seem to suggest desperate measures; a hope that by taking a break in the out of doors one can somehow regain her humanity. Yet, isn't it the architect's responsibility to feed the spirit as well as house the body? The temporary nature of corporate buildings, with their so-called 7 year roofs, belie a cruelly spartan approach to design. Methinks we sometimes sacrifice too much in the name of efficiency.
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isn't for such predicaments what spraypaint, supersquirter epoxy, and swabbymarkers made?
oops, i meant, "isn't for such predicaments WHY spraypaint, supersquirter epoxy, and swabbymarkers ARE made?"
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