Industrial Age Cathedral

Breaking and entering, Greg and Kai style. (click tha pic for a sharper view)

Turkey Day!

Everyone enjoy their break, and that's an order private!

Going... Going... SaiGON

Construction workers in Saigon South, a 7,600-acre mixed residential and commercial project on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, managed by a Taiwanese company, Central Trading and Development Group.

From the New York Times article, "High-Rise Development Plans Threaten Vietnam's Once Gracious Capital"

THE DOCTOR IS IN DA HOUSE

Session 7, at 2:15’20”
ANDREW HERSCHER: This is what I think: I find that it’s much easier to talk about ethics than politics in school. And I think that provokes a problem. If ethics is about articulating perhaps non-negotiable principles for thoughts and for action, for ways to be an architect, and if politics is about negotiation, negotiation with others, negotiation with difference, then, politics without ethics is war, and ethics without politics is theology. They’re both inadequate. They’re both unsatisfactory. If that’s true, then what it means is: we need to figure out how to talk about the intersection of politics and ethics, or in other words, how to negotiate the non-negotiables. And that’s an extraordinarily difficult, but I think crucial problem.

For Ben

Above: Romanian Revolutionary. Sprayed by Banksy.

The disappearance of utopia brings about a static state of affairs in which man himself becomes no more than a thing. We would be faced then with the greatest paradox imaginable, namely that man, who has achieved the highest degree of rational mastery of existence, left without any ideals, becomes a mere creature of impulses.

Karl Mannheim, Ideology and Utopia, 1936