Architecture & Design Entropy | 10 Oct 2006
It’s a good idea, when looking at an apartment tower, a bungalow or a bridge, to strike up a conversation with it. The Chrysler Building, the Trump Tower, your own home and the furniture in it: all of them are dying to have a little chat. Even the chilliest-looking modern building has feelings, Alain de [...]
Architecture & Design &Thought Provoking Entropy | 07 Oct 2006
This is an excerpt from article published in NGM .. Pl care to read The City of Light is also a city of green, with a panoply of parks and gardens where Parisians rest and rejuvenate. Parks and Gardens are also essential to human social and psycological well-being. Without access to grass and trees, says [...]
Music &Thought Provoking Entropy | 06 Oct 2006
The connoisseur Bernard Berenson coined the phrase “tactile values” to express the way great works of art, whether painted, sculptured or merely manufactured, caress the senses with an almost physical tangibility. To look at one of Fra Angelico’s madonnas is to feel with the eye, and to feel is to know. Surely no artifact is [...]
Thought Provoking Entropy | 05 Oct 2006
It’s time English teachers got back to basics – less grammar, more play The report published by the University of York on its research into the teaching of grammar will hardly surprise anyone who has thought about the subject. The question being examined was whether instruction in grammar had any effect on pupils’ writing. It [...]
There is a square; there is an oblong. The players take the square and place it upon the oblong. They place it very accurately; they make a perfect dwelling-place. Very little is left outside. The structure is now visible; what is inchoate is here stated; we are not so various or so mean; we have [...]