THE ARCHITECTURE OF HAPPINESS (ALAIN DE BOTTON, 2006)

“We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.”

“Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our own prized internal song. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a motorway diner.”

“We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful vision of ourselves. We arrange around us material forms which communicate to us what we need: but are at constant risk of forgetting what we need: within. We turn to wallpaper, benches, paintings and streets to staunch the disappearance of our true selves.”

“A feeling of beauty is a sign that we have come upon a material articulation of certain of our ideas of a good life.”

“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.”

MATTHIAS HEIDERICH - MINIMAL IS BEAUTIFUL [FOTOGRAF]

 

PATRIK LINDELL [FOTOGRAFI]

His work is so focused and consistent and I see many similar qualities with designers’ work that I admire. 

The compositions are straight-forward, and he has a keen eye for subtle details, pattern, color and structure.
The mood of all Lindell’s work is fantastic, as well. I love that throughout his portfolio, the sky is always the same shade of gray.

 

 

EDUARDO COIMBRA - PROJECTO NUVEM [INSTALLATION]

With his Projecto Nuvem Argentinean artist Eduardo Coimbra brought the sky down to the ground and made it possible for us to walk through clouds and interact directly with his sculptural installation.

This is exactly what the multimedia artist, who studied engineering and architecture, actually aimed for:

to provoke people right where they live, where they move.

His huge site-specific installations seem like a synthetic constructions of our reality. He says that his work is related to space in a broader sense, many times forcing the boundaries between interiors and exteriors of art spaces. The three-dimensional work of clouds and skies, both motives that are very present in his work, consists out of five square light boxes, each 4.7 meters high, iron, translucent canvas printing, fluorescent lamps, and mirrors. Mirrors, that reflect the light during daytime and illuminated boxes that mimic the brightness at nighttime.

OF BAUHAUS MANIFESTO

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Let us therefore create a new guild of craftsmen without the class-distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists!

Let us desire, conceive, and create the new building of the future together. It will combine architecture, sculpture, and painting in a single form, and will one day rise towards the heavens from the hands of a million workers as the crystalline symbol of a new and coming faith.