a gentleman will walk but never run WebLog 25-08-2002
   

Saturday, December 07, 2002

Joel Spolsky is getting me get a lot of appetite to put my teeth in programming again.
In addition, his opinions about design and project management are brilliant. You've got a new fan Joel!
posted by Muove on 13:03

I just counted my books and put them in an excell-sheet. I came to the staggering conclusion I still haven't read almost two thirds of the books I own. There's no day wthout reading, but I buy more books than I read. In addition to that I frequently read books from the library.
One of the reasons I wanted this weblog was to record my projects. When I force myself to report about them regularly, I thought I would be able to finish them. It would be clear when I get sloppy and stop paying attention to live by the (maybe to harsh or strict) rules I posed. And I will be able to do something about it!
So, I need to find a way to communicate about my 'read all my books'-project.
I will work on that (ha!, another project).
posted by Muove on 12:58

Friday, November 29, 2002

I love Brussels. I adore my appartment. I'm beginning to call brussels 'home'. But it is a difficult relationship. Stench, noise, impossible traffic, tangible poverty, crowds, asocial behaviour, violence, ...
After I got mugged in may, I always laughed about it and said I wouldn't move after I got mugged twice.
Well,... it happened. I got mugged again, this thursday evening. Two guys grabbed me, and took my wallet and my bag. And what is worse of all, it all happened in front of my house.
So now i ask myself: did I mean it when I said it I would move? Do I want to move?
posted by Muove on 22:13

Sunday, September 22, 2002

Following yesterdays' post about signs in buildings I wonder what would happen if you had to subtitle buildings like you have to with foreign films.
Magritte pops in my mind, and a cartoon like image by Venturi.
You only subtitle dialogue what's dialogue in buildings, what aspect of it?
posted by Muove on 18:35

Saturday, September 21, 2002

I'm proud to say there's a site of the new vlaamsarchitectuurinstituut or Flemish Architecture Institution. It follows it's counterpart in Holland the Nederlands Architectuur Instituut.
posted by Muove on 17:40

The need to use pictograms and signs in a building seem to be like a defeat to an architect. Navigating through a building should be clear to everyone without them. Is it 'bad architecture' when it isn't?
Or are people uncultivated when it comes to buildings? Don't they understand its language and do they need a translation in the form of signs? Maybe we are lazy or unsure when orientating, or maybe we can understand architectural signs but more slowly than pictograms or words.
posted by Muove on 16:57

I'm reading this classic book by Edward de Bono about lateral thinking. He proposes the use of provocative thoughts to open up new possibilities and maybe new ideas that are more useful than the standard.
These sidesteps don't have to be right, they can be plainly illogical or wrong, most important is that it gives a new view on the problem. If it leads to another (maybe better) answer to the problem, it can always be backtracked to the original view on the problem and from there a logical way (in contrast to the absurd jump you initially had to make) to come to the answer can always be constructed.
In architectural theory and avant-garde there are always these incredible illogical ideas which to a more engineer-point of view seem unfit, unuseable, unfounded. These ideas are associated with fashion; they are obsessed with change, and only for novelty's sake.
But now I understand a little why they are so important.
Maybe this is an interesting proposition 'fashion thrives creativity, and so helps to find better solutions'
posted by Muove on 16:23

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