Luis Soares's Blog, page 598
September 20, 2013
Brenda Hillman - Statueless Architecture
I passed through nature
into the next. Children
running in unsupervised shadows.
Last century's fountains learning
not to lie. Risk
to identify with only
one element since one
will die but in
the summer air around
each thought, something is
built and avoided. You
go through an arch
and aren't the arch,
just infinity of form,
curve's curve of becoming,
a phrase tracking it
to future's celadon relief.
As others dressed as
others we were supposed
to meet. Citizens walked
here without disappointment, seeing
no statue...
September 19, 2013
Big Ben.
Quando foi inaugurado em 1859, o Big Ben em Londres tornou-se uma referência precisa para a medição do tempo na metrópole. A obsessão inglesa pela exatidão traduziu-se, por exemplo, neste mapa que indicava a dispersão circular do som em intervalos de um segundo (340 metros) para os habitantes terem noção do atraso com que chegavam aos seus ouvidos as famosas badaladas.
