I can't shake the feeling that the factory farming of chickens evolved in a
slow bottom line way and the end of the day we all came to realize that
while prices are low we have all lost something.
The Mondrian landscape that marks our offices and office buildings all
reflect the stunning insight of building spaces on the sole criterion of
price per square foot. Before price per square foot and bottom line
thinking came to dominate, we created public and some private structures
with high ceilings, some ornamental work, columns, a sense of space and
aesthetics.
Arthur Cordell
-----Original Message-----
From: Magic Circ Op Rep Ens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: April 22, 2001 10:32 PM
To: Ed Weick; Brad McCormick, Ed.D.; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Less is less (Photos of The Computer Revolution)
One of the things that I've noticed about the Internationalist school is
that materials show their wear more than the decorated materials. They are
also easier to clean. The Lever House here and Seagrams Buildings are
masterworks but they tend to look more like the more mediocre structures as
they age. Age may suggest maturity in the second picture while it
probably suggests decay in the former. I don't agree that Mies is about
materials. I tend to see more geometric shapes that materials are tortured
into.
The Frank Lloyd Wright buildings are more about materials in that they take
the textures not from rectanglular and curved corners but the unique shape
of a texture or the Plasticity of repeated geometric shapes in poured
concrete creating an endless originality. One being about form the other
having form grow from organic content. But these are old arguments. I
personally enjoy both structures and points of view. Like Mozart next to
Richard Strauss. Mozart is your box.
I'm not sure what the old one is. The issue of comfort is an interesting
one. Each cubicle has the quality of being connected to the whole while
retaining a sense of space albiet not ownership. That is one of the
reasons I never teach in schools. I feel a profound need to own the space
I think in. That is my personal spacial capital which ties to my ability
to function. Interesting thoughts Brad.
Thanks for the sharing.
REH
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: Less is less (Photos of The Computer Revolution)
> Brad,
>
> What can one conclude from this except that the soul is not necessary to
> modern work, or perhaps it is? Your new surroundings would, like a
Trappist
> monestary, seem more supportive to meditation, your old ones to
creativity.
> Creativity may be out; meditation in. Have courage.
>
> Ed Weick
>
> Visit my rebuilt website at:
> http://members.eisa.com/~ec086636/
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 3:33 PM
> Subject: Less is less (Photos of The Computer Revolution)
>
>
> > The company I work for produces leading-edge high-end computer
software --
> > indeed one might call it "meta-ware", since it analyzes other
> > computer hardware and software....
> >
> > Attached is a link to a picture I took recently of one section
> > of the space into which the company moved
> > a few months ago. The building is a huge
> > black megalith (no, it isn't a message from higher
> > intelligences like the megalith in 2001...),
> > approx 280ft x 280ft by 20 stories high (the company
> > I work for occupies most of the 4th floor).
> > The building looks to me like a Mies van der Rohe done cheap (Mies
> > believed in the "luxury of materials") -- but maybe it is
> > a real Mies???
> >
> > http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/jpg/Office2000.jpg
> >
> > When the company first moved to the new space, I was
> > frightened to even be in the space (I think the
> > correct term for this is: "horror vacui"). (Picture of my
> > former work area in the company's former
> > premises, which were in an "old building":
> >
> > http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/jpg/office4.jpg
> >
> > .)
> >
> > After about 4 months, I feel much better accommodated to the new space
> > than I originally felt. Humans are highly "adaptable".
> >
> > "Enjoy!"
> >
> > The worker's lifeworld is a co-product of all work.
> >
> > +\brad mccormick
> >
> > --
> > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
> >
> > [ I am looking for a Waltham Premier Maximus pocket watch in
> > excellent condition. Any "leads" much appreciated. Thank you. ]
> >
> > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua NY 10514-3403 USA
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