The Digital Self
“Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was myself. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man.” -Zhuangzi “…there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real m
Do Less
How do we begin a talk on idea of do less? We could decipher the title as a less is more Mies quote, it could be a modernist mantra returning, it could be a frustration of the existing architecture, it could be looking towards the future, or returning to the past, hell, it could even refer to a quote by Paul Rudd in Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The fact is, do less as a simple statement is a grenade in the architecture world and might be the hardest goal to achieve as a designe
