whats arbeit macht frei mean? work will set you free...

who said that? its actually the motto of FAR.

in Times, adaptation to climate change is favouring species which reproduce faster (faster gene adaptation?), which means that insects and weeds are actually faring better. Mammals, especially those which have longer life cycles and slower rates of reproduction, are not doing as well. extrapolate this, and could it mean that mammals are soon going to be at risk? hmhmhmhmm

The increased scale of interiority and divorce from the street evolved the increasing scale and spectacle of signage.

they don't have to agree with it. All's needed is for them to believe

Wall of Words

... we use language almost to render it useless. The overuse of superlatives ("they have the best cocktails." "it was really cool"), instead of creating a point of agreement or consensus, actually becomes an excuse to sidestep it.

In Berlin, there's always some event to do, somewhere to be, something to do. In light of this deluge, staying home no longer becomes a default but a choice. The habit of laziness transforms from boredom to a luxury.

"flooded in orange."

The park feels like a series of smaller areas, with views and access to others not always coinciding with each other. Sound is a large factor in experiencing it as a larger whole, always when one is in one section there is the screams of children or beat of a dj from the neighbouring area to remind one of the park's totality. The scale thus, of what could be extremely monumental, is reduced to very bite sized sections. Divisions are realized through the use of different densities of plantings, different floor treatments (sand, grass, pave, asphalt) and sectionally.

you must understand that Modernism was a primarily ideological movement and should not be confused with its physical manifestation - i.e. grids, orthogonal structures, industrial aesthetics.

perhaps we should disengage modernism from the industrial revolution: surely, they mutually inform each other, but they are not the same thing. Modernism was chiefly about the masses. Primarily humanitarian perhaps? (correct me if i'm wrong). The reduction to numbers, the frankfurt kitchen et al, were a product of the ideology with the constraints of the time. The criticism of modernism as alienating or being reductive was not the fault of modernism itself but with the scale and resolution that it was allowed to execute its ideology.

Wired's "how to live by numbers" illuminates this- the increased resolution with which we are able to cast a lens upon, document and evaluate.

perhaps then the grid, even if it breaks down, is not a bad thing. how much more inefficient would it be if a building were non-cartesian? computing can now optimize the material and structure. Thus, not much more or less would be my guess. Why Stick To The Grid then?

I propose thus that now in this time it is possible to become modernists again. the same song with different instruments.