quarta-feira, janeiro 06, 2010
Que beleza
"...beauty [...] as a form of self-expression, or as a form of self-denial [...] as one of the instruments in our consensus-building strategies, one of the values through which we construct and belong to a shared and mutually consoling world. In short, it is part of building a home.
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...in 1961, Jane Jacobs argued that cities should develop spontaneously and organically, so as to enshrine in their contours the unintended results of the consensual transactions between their residents. [...] As much as the home, cities depend upon good manners; and good manners require the modest accommodation to neighbors rather than the arrogant assertion of apartness. The architects who win the big commissions today [...] design buildings [...] which stand apart from their surroundings, islands of Ego in a sea of Us.
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The buildings that go up in our neighborhood matter to us in just the way that our neighbors matter. They demand our attention, and shape our lives. [...] every building [...] should be a fitting member of a community of neighbors. [...] Architecture is not like poetry, music, or painting [...] It survives regardless of its aesthetic merit, and is only rarely the expression of creative genius.
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The failure of modernism, in my view, lies not in the fact that it has produced no great or beautiful buildings—the Chapel at Ronchamp, and the houses of Frank Lloyd Wright abundantly prove the opposite. It lies in the absence of any reliable patterns or types, which can be used in awkward or novel situations so as to spontaneously harmonize with the existing urban decor, and so as to retain the essence of the street as a common home.
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People need beauty. They need the sense of being in communication with other souls. In so many areas of modern life [...] beauty is being displaced by raucous and attention-grabbing clichés [...] by the loud and insolent gestures of people who want to seize our attention but to give nothing in return for it".
Roger Scruton in The American
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[...]
...in 1961, Jane Jacobs argued that cities should develop spontaneously and organically, so as to enshrine in their contours the unintended results of the consensual transactions between their residents. [...] As much as the home, cities depend upon good manners; and good manners require the modest accommodation to neighbors rather than the arrogant assertion of apartness. The architects who win the big commissions today [...] design buildings [...] which stand apart from their surroundings, islands of Ego in a sea of Us.
[...]
The buildings that go up in our neighborhood matter to us in just the way that our neighbors matter. They demand our attention, and shape our lives. [...] every building [...] should be a fitting member of a community of neighbors. [...] Architecture is not like poetry, music, or painting [...] It survives regardless of its aesthetic merit, and is only rarely the expression of creative genius.
[...]
The failure of modernism, in my view, lies not in the fact that it has produced no great or beautiful buildings—the Chapel at Ronchamp, and the houses of Frank Lloyd Wright abundantly prove the opposite. It lies in the absence of any reliable patterns or types, which can be used in awkward or novel situations so as to spontaneously harmonize with the existing urban decor, and so as to retain the essence of the street as a common home.
[...]
People need beauty. They need the sense of being in communication with other souls. In so many areas of modern life [...] beauty is being displaced by raucous and attention-grabbing clichés [...] by the loud and insolent gestures of people who want to seize our attention but to give nothing in return for it".
Roger Scruton in The American
