Art does not hide behind "Safe" . On Jul 7, 2009, at 5:53 PM, Frances Kelly wrote:
Frances belatedly to members... Allow me to drop this post, because it may be worth some reflection and comment. An architect recently stated to me that it is wrong to construct buildings that will be occupied or inhabited higher than the ground floor or over one storey high, and bad to build them close to one another, mainly for purposes of safety. This makes sense to me, but it is an ideal that will likely never exist. In any event, it occurred to me that normal mature humans often do dangerous things that are clearly risky for the sheer fun of it. Sailing at night in dense fog on calm water into unseen space for example is a sublime exhilarating experience with strong aesthetic overtones. This feeling of deliberate excitement for its own sake may very well be applicable to sailing, but also to building and fighting and racing and so on. The issue of course remains, which is why buildings indeed are made close and high, when it is clearly not safe.
