Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
...to sell nylons
Don Draper: "What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons. You're born alone and you die alone and this world just drops a bunch of rules on top of you to make you forget those facts, but I never forget. I'm living like there's no tomorrow, because there isn't."
Rachel Menken: "I don't think I realized it until this moment, but it must be hard being a man, too."
Don Draper: "Excuse me?"
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Aesthetics and the Human Habitat
The attitude of contemporary architecture toward other civilizations is a humble one. We do not regard primitive civilizations from the point of view of an advanced technology. We realize that often shantytowns contain within themselves vestiges of the last balanced civilization - the last civilization in which man was in equipoise. We realize they can teach us forms that can be used to express specific social, territorial, and spiritual conditions. From this our social imagination may be able to form an aesthetic unity.
- "Aesthetics and the Human Habitat" (1953), excerpted in Sigfried Giedion, Architecture, You and Me, 1958
- "Aesthetics and the Human Habitat" (1953), excerpted in Sigfried Giedion, Architecture, You and Me, 1958
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