Blog by Alex Tahinos

“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

Rhea| (/ˈriː.ə/; ancient Greek Ῥέα) was the Titaness daughter of Uranus, the sky, and Gaia, the earth, in Greek mythology. She was known as "the mother of gods." Parametricism | A style within contemporary avant-garde architecture, promoted as a successor to post-modern architecture and modern architecture. The term was coined in 2008 by Patrik Schumacher. “The new style poses many new, systematically connected design problems that are being worked on competitively within a g

“If Nietzsche and Jacques Derrida taught architects how to smash the idols into fragments and destabilize power from within, the Deleuze and his followers showed us how to pulp those fragments into atomized flows.” -Todd Gannon #Parametricism #Decon #Philosophy #Theory

Perses | (/ˈpɜːrsɪz/; Greek: Πέρσης) was the son of the Titan siblings, Crius and Eurybia. He was described as the Titan god of destruction in mythology. Deconstructivism | A development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1950s. It is influenced by the theory of "Deconstruction", which is a form of semiotic analysis. Philosophy and design have an interesting relationship with one another. They play a sort of hide and seek game over the years. Usually we get a f