ETIQUETTE // I DONT CARE // YES IS MORE
2014-06-26
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on a profession :
"All buildings are predictions. All predictions are wrong."
Stewart Brand, 1994 in: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
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2014-02-24
RICHARD NEUTRA‘S QUESTIONNAIRE FÜR CLIENTS
1- who pays the bills in this family?
2- who will pick the tile?
3- did you play good cop bad cop before?
4- did you know view doesn't mean wall to wall glass?
5- did you know you need a construction permit?
6- did you know city requires setbacks?
7- do you know i don't do this for fun?
8- did you know when your parents built their house forty years ago, lumber was cheaper?
9- did you know when your parents built their house forty years ago, labor was cheaper?
10- do you realize jones' will always be richer than you?
11- did you know when a contractor says he'll throw in the design for free you'll get what you paid for; no design?
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precisions
what is colour?
an intensity, a temperature, a clash, a harmony.
how do you use it?
when it asks.
what is black?
an absence, a presence, a mood, a mantle.
what is red?
a blush, a flush, a fever, a command.
what is skin?
a protection.
what is fabric?
a medium.
what is texture?
a result of time.
what is construction?
a means to an end.
what is art?
a neet to reply.
what is craftmanship?
a fruit of time.
what is clothing?
the final layer.
what is fashion?
a series of propositions.
what is recycling?
another chance.
how does recycling fit into your work?
by nature.
how does a concept develop at hermes?
time, another question, another reply.
what would you like to develop besides clothing?
an understanding.
what words do you live by?
we.
- martin margiela
2014-01-31
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