Long may you run.

Flavio 2022-10-14 11:07:50

Rarely do you meet someone who presents matter in a spiritual way. He was concerned with the sense of nothingness, with the silence, with the mysterious light. It's not a conventional statement, it's not a conventional exposition, it's what we're fascinated by, and it's what he likes to discuss. When someone understands this, he must not be an ordinary person, he must have an enlightened soul, we call him a teacher, and we call him a practitioner. —————— Sanmao said before that when he saw the Sahara, he seemed to feel a sense of fate, but I only thought that this kind of feeling was too intuitive, and it was as unreasonable as love at first sight. But in Kang's architecture, I can seem to sense this force. If a common man wants to present eternity in architecture, he must have deep reflection and thinking in unknown places. He had to question himself all the time and follow God's shadow all the time, so he never had a happy ending in the worldly sense. He is a wanderer, far away from the fireworks of the world, working for the light in his heart, in an infinite loop, until he finally stops silently at the Pennsylvania railway station.

I really feel sorry for the woman in the film who sheds tears for Kang. The genius is only good at perfecting himself, but he never cares about the people around him. Some of him are full of abstract thinking and creation, but he has no time to take care of trivial life, firewood, rice, oil and salt. He wanted to be God in his own building, at least one with God, one with all beings. Everyone who stops here should feel this transparent and lonely sense of mastery, and at the same time, it is also a complete nothingness.

This may be the foundation of life.

A friend said that I will definitely be attached to a certain religion and some kind of emotional sustenance in the future. Because being attached to a specific person is unstable, each person has specific shortcomings and limitations. But God will not, He is always perfect, always on the far frontier for you to pursue. I believe and hope that this quest will never end and that my life will be always on-going, always tireless, always full and motivated.

As the song sings: Long may you run.

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  • Louis Kahn: A work of art... is not a living thing... that walks or runs. But the making of a life. That which gives you a reaction. To some it is the wonder of man's fingers. To some it is the wonder of the mind. To some it is the wonder of technique. And to some it is how real it is. To some, how transcendent it is. Like the 5th Symphony, it presents itself with a feeling that you know it, if you have heard it once. And you look for it, and though you know it you must hear it again. Though you know it you must see it again. Truly, a work of art is one that tells us that Nature cannot make what man can make.

  • Louis Kahn: When you want to give something presence, you have to consult nature. And there is where design comes in. If you think of brick, for instance, you say to brick, "What do you want, brick?" And brick says to you, "I like an arch." And if you say to brick, "Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a concrete lintel over you. What do you think of that, brick?" brick says, "I like an arch."

    [Students laugh]

    Louis Kahn: And it's important, you see, that you honor the material that you use. You don't bandy it around as though you said, "Well, we have a lot of material around. We can do it one way, we can do it another." It's not true. You can only do it if you honor the brick, and glorify the brick, instead of just shortchanging it.

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