Steyn Viljoen • Beautiful, boring, and without soul 🕌
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Steyn Viljoen • Beautiful, boring, and without soul 🕌
It was then I realised architecture is not about creating structures that are aesthetically pleasing or merely functional: it’s about designing spaces that evoke emotion and resonate with the human spirit. The Farnsworth House may have been a triumph of modernist design, but it lacked the warmth and humanity architecture should embody.
“Decades of living in what I call “the concrete world” has caused my creativity to calcify. So many transactional exchanges, cursory encounters, fleeting connections, and superficial trends left me emotionally drained and intellectually parched. I didn’t realize how much I was yearning for this type of space until I stepped into the Sublime communi
... See more2000. ‘In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
Alice Rawsthorn • Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
To create something is a daring, beautiful act. The architect, the author, the artist—all are building something where nothing was before. To try to create something even better than anyone has ever done it before is even bolder. Sitting down at the computer or with a notepad and committing to pour yourself onto it is a scary proposition. But anyon
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