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  1. What are your favorites

    in Introductions & Off-Topic Discussion

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    Here's a lil' profile of me.

    Actor - Either Russell Crowe or Brad Pitt

    Actress - Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayak

    Movie - Microcosmos or Napoleon Dynamite

    Color - Grey and Magenta

    "Band" - Well my favorite DJs are Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, and Armin van Buuren.

    Book - Cien Años de Soledad (Gabriel García Márquez), Inferno (Dante Aligheri), Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges), The Trial (Franz Kafka), The Fellowship of the Ring (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky), 1984 (George Orwell)

    Food - Rack of Lamb cooked with Cabernet Sauvignon, greasy philly cheesesteaks from the lunch truck across the street.

    Hobbies - Reading, DJing, Collecting Music, Studying languages (el español actualmente), girlfriend, clubbing, laying out in the sun doing nothing, graphic design, blacksmithing.

    Temporal Energy

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    and the future is a concept we have thanks to our ability to be conscious and observe pattern. Otherwise there is only now.

    You haven't included dreaming in your concept of time.

    Has anyone ever read Jorge Luis Borges's work "The Garden of Forking Paths"? It's a pretty short read (like 14 pages or something) but it deals with the nature of the infinite narrative, infinite time, parallel times, etc.

    In other words, when we make choices, we do not simply chose one and the other goes away, rather all possibilities of choice and thus time occur simultaneously, yet consciously we perceive only one narrative path through this infinite labyrinth we call time.

    So my challenge to your idea CheeZy, is cannot "perception" of future exist in the subconscious and unconscious?

    But then again, I know what you are saying, and it is that "past" and "future" are simply perceptions.

    There's no such thing as a concrete memory - memories are all something different to each of us. And physical evidence of a "past event" is just that, it's physical, it's contemporaneous.

    Everything exists in the present, at the instant. The past does not exist, the future does not exist. What exist are neurons in the brains of humans that retain energy, which en masse and in massive pattern, become meaningful to us, become perceptions, memories, delusions, hopes, dreams, and ideas.

    The New World Trade Center

    in Hall of Intellectuals

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    The problem is that it is not progressive thinking. It's retrospective and unecessarily nostalgic.

    When people die, part of mourning that person is to overcome the loss by moving on.

    When a building is destroyed like this, and this was not an ordinary destruction of a building, it was the murder of many people, the murder of ideas, the murder of architecture combined, part of mourning that building is to overcome its loss by moving on.

    We have to ask ourselves, what possible reason is there for keeping the aesthetics and functionality of a building that was designed nearly forty years ago? That makes no sense unless you say that it's for sentimental value.

    That's not the best way to memorialize the deaths of people on september 11. A better way would be to improve upon the situation - to build a better building, to advance society somehow with the knowledge and wisdom that we have gained as a result of september 11, so that the deaths of these people mean something.

    It is arrogant to think that nothing has changed since september 11, that the world is the same place, and that we should not listen to the voices that are screaming in our ears to change our ways.

    There is no freedom involved in the war against terrorism. The war on terror is the absence of freedom - it's totalitarian foreign policy and becoming totalitarian domestic policy. To extend the belligerent "resolution" with which the administration has conducted this war by recreating what are symbols of enmity, greed, and corruption to a large part of the world to the architectural front would be a tremendous intellectual and societal loss.

    The New World Trade Center

    in Hall of Intellectuals

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    The original's design had a 30 story skeletal structure comprising the top 40% of the structure. It was HORRENDOUS.

    Why is this a bad thing? This structural grid was being used for a wind power farm which would power the entire building complex, which is a step forward in sustainable design.

    The new tower is highly iconic and superficial, lacking any strong sociopolitical motivation other than "kiss my *%$, Osama". The old design was much more inspired in its design, both metaphorically and with regards to its innovations such as the wind power mentioned above.

    Its architecture says a lot more about progress and humility than rebuilding what was evidently a symbol of contempt to many around the world. That would be a symbolic slap in the face, an agressive and selfish action.

    The world has enough slaps in the face, agression, and selfishness. To rebuild the old twin towers is a highly retrospective, belligerent, and arrogant thing to do.

    Architecture can be used to improve political conditions around the world, and it can also be used to destroy them. Why not be progressive with our architecture?

    The New World Trade Center

    in Hall of Intellectuals

    Posted

    The original "Freedom Tower" is a very elegant design.

    Also there's a lot more to the new complex than what it "looks" like. Architecture is often a lot more about how it feels to experience it than how it looks, though certainly skyscrapers are rather graphic and iconic.

    I would stand by Daniel Libeskind's design if I was a judge in the competition.

    http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/press/pressimages.html

    His architecture is very psychological in nature, and he's the right designer to design after the trauma of the event.

    I don't know how many of you are familiar with Libeskind's extension the jewish museum in Berlin, but it is a a phenomonal piece of psychological architecture.

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