"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that 
will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility."

- Saint Augustine, Latin philosopher and theologian from Roman Africa.









NYC high rise building.

"Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis."

- Samuel Alexander, Australian-born British philosopher






Architecture. London, England

"There's no black and white situation. 
It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles."

- Van Morrison, musician 








Guggenheim Museum of Art, NYC.

 

"As it enters the ear, does it come in like broken glass

or does it come in like honey?"

- Eddie Condon, musician

The Royal Ontario Museum. Toronto. Crystal extension by Michael Lee-Chin.  

"Color in certain places has the great value of making 

the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic."

- Antonio Gaudi, Spanish architect 

Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain. By Gaudi

"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion

when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."

- Herbert Hover. 

Artists Handmade Houses, book. Photography by Don Freeman.

"And sometimes there is relief, sometimes there is new energy, and one stands up after it; till at last, someday, one perhaps doesn't stand up anymore, que soit, but that is nothing extraordinary, and I repeat, in my opinion, such is the common."

- Vincent van Gogh, Dutch post-impressionist artist

A theater made entirely out of straw and painted black. By Salto Architects, in Tallinn, Estonia.
Lasting from May to October 2011. It is a temporary building, operating for half a year, built for a specific purpose, programme and location.