A0, título por definir ou como usar um blog na falta do bloco de notas que deixei algures em parte incerta:
In
Forty's words: ‘Concrete is a material that has done many things for us. It has
allowed us to overcome nature, it holds back the sea, it has joined continents
together and so it transforms the world we live in. […] and as such it is both
celebrated and reviled. It may be that it overcomes nature but it also cuts us
off from nature. It brings us closer together but it also drives us further
apart. This is the paradox around concrete.’ (Adrian Forty, Concrete and
Culture)
'We don't quite recognize how resilient cities are,
how they arise over and over again from their own ruins, resurrected,
reincarnated.' Rebeca Solnit in Ruins
Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home…. Maybe it is a good thing for us to keep a few dreams of a house that we shall live in later, always later, so much later, in fact, that we shall not have time to achieve it. For a house that was final, one that stood in symmetrical relation to the house we were born in, would lead to thoughts—serious, sad thoughts—and not to dreams. It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
'[…] the ruins themselves, like other traces, are
treasures: our links to what came before, our guide to situating ourselves in a
landscape of time. To erase the ruins is to erase the visible public triggers
of memory.' Rebeca Solnit in The Ruins of Memory
