/2015/03/04/traveling-solo-with-15-cameras/ the art of nature Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:06:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 /2015/03/04/traveling-solo-with-15-cameras/#comment-33 Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:06:31 +0000 https://agatha0.wordpress.com/#comment-33 The stasis seems to me to be largely the US’s — which is, as you know, incredibly conservative and loath to invest in new ways of doing things. However I agree with you on increasing sameness, although I did see a place built of matting in this town that– even though it may have grown out of poverty, looked like a nice approach to building where it is hot. The development of this city is being “fueled” by irrigated ways of growing veggies in the desert and that, to me, seems madness. We build on beautiful farming soil in temperate climates and we grow our veggies in the desert. Wa?

]]> /2015/03/04/traveling-solo-with-15-cameras/#comment-32 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:02:32 +0000 https://agatha0.wordpress.com/#comment-32 Wonderful idea. I am struck also by how “anywhere” the place is. Those dominant architectural forms are the exact same in Tangier, Puna, Phuket, Chicxulub… We are all using the same shapes and materials now, and the differences are more subtle, the effects of nature and culture on the same bedrock of brutal concrete modernism. I am anxious to live out this revolution in 3D printing. As bad as it may be for what is left of the environment, it is going to change the way we build after almost 100 years of stasis.

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