“All things in this world are a product of the formula: (function times economy).”

Real art must be ‘made by the people and for the people, as a happiness for the maker and the user.’

The city historically constructed is no longer lived and is no longer understood practically.

“Resists the notion that common ground is an inheritance; instead, we should see it as a task.”

David Leatherbarrow

”The house should be reticent on the outside and unveil its entire richness on the inside.”

“Atmosphere starts where construction ends.”

“New problems have been posed and new equipment created to solve them.”

Le Corbusier

Spatial qualities, many times struggle to distinguish themselves from their own reproductions.

The drawing itself has been subsumed by the tools we’ve chosen to use.

Auroville will be used as a case study in the process of unraveling the characteristic of such utopic communities, and through Foucault’s notion of utopic-heterotopic space.

“Architectural history can no longer be contained within the scope of a single discipline.”

How much additional green does the city require in order to reach the European average of 7 m2? How can this be placed in the city?”

“no one leaves home unless

home is the mouth of a shark.

you only run for the border

when you see the whole city

running as well.

you have to understand,

no one puts their children in a boat

unless the water is safer than the land.”

Continuous Monument all “understood graphic space as significant in and of itself while presenting a different trajectory—not just for drawing but for imagining architecture, simultaneously setting up alternative architectural propositions.”

A structure refusing to touch the realistic conditions of our given context, the ground, while his floating cities could and should be seen as autonomous entities that ‘refuse to pay rent to any short of landlord.

Is architecture an artistic depiction at the scale of a building or is it the sum of researched quantifiable inputs?

The great depression and the World War II “led to the adoption of forms that in most cases bore little resemblance to their supposed European antecedents.”

“A building for human habitation, especially one that is lived in by a family or small group of people.”

Such places of the ‘heteros’, the other, seemed to have acquired more layers of meaning and relationships than what meets the eye as to other places.

The skyscraper was manifesting the ambition and desire for power of self-begotten individuals.