Architecture of Happiness | Discussion Notes

Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES May 14, 2021 Review: Given the memorial capacities of architecture, it cannot be coincidental that in many of the world’s cultures, the earliest and most significant words have been...

Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES May 7, 2021 Review: The moral equation between beauty and goodness lent to all architecture a new seriousness and importance. In admiring the noble patina of a mature wooden floor, we would...

Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES April 30, 2021 Review: We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for avulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind,...

Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES April 23, 2021 Review: To call a work of architecture or design beautiful is to recognize it as a rendition of values critical to ourflourishing, a transubstantiation of our individual...

Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES April 9, 2021 Review:In essence, what works of…architecture talk to us about is the kind of life that would most appropriately unfold within and around them. They tell us certain moods that...

Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES April 2, 2021 Review: It may be easy to laugh at the grandiloquence of claims directed at objects which on occasion resemble giant earplugs or upturned lawnmowers. But, instead of accusing...

Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES March 26, 2021 Review: In essence, what works of…architecture talk to us about is the kind of life that would most appropriately unfold within and around them. They tell us certain moods...

Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES March 12, 2021 Review: “The philosophy of the engineers flew in the face of everything the architectural profession had ever stood for.‘To turn something useful, practical, functional into...

Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES March 4, 2021 Review: ..it means acknowledging that buildings are able to solve no more than a fraction of our dissatisfactions or prevent evil from unfolding under their watch....

Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES February 26, 2021 Review: What is a beautiful building? To be modern is to experience this as an awkward and possibly unanswerable question, the very notion of beauty having come to seem...