MA&DE's Diary

Saturday, 23 February 2008

MA&DE PUBLIC - seminar 3


"The Interior as a Background for Life".
John Glew :
Making good things happen.

Tuesday, the 26th of February.
The forum
6:30pm. (not 6:00 pm as printed on the posters!)

“The known potential of the found rather than the ego of the new can enable a familiar, ‘Background-Presence’ - the character of the physical (and cultural) setting of a place - to flourish; Architecture can be as much about interpretation as the production of form with it’s appropriateness to empower others. Thus all that is not architecture is respected - one rich in social importance. These virtues, some pictured and some imagined can be viewed as available resources to the city, as a kind of visual registry, harnessed and deployed they have much imaginative design potential if recognised; an Architecture of the emotions and the intellect - for all the senses…”

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