Threads Through Sheffield

“Life is right, and the architect is wrong”Le Corbusier (toward the end of his life)A statement that often falls on deaf ears in my very short experience to date. I don’t know what is more interesting/surprising, the honesty of the statement or the fact that Le Corbusier himself said it. Either way its relevance to the debate on Interdependence and Architecture is important to acknowledge. I personally read it as a kind of warning sign rather than a mantra to be chanted or preached (Corbusier was very good at preaching!)If the architect is wrong, then what aspects of ‘life’ do we need to unearth or start to appreciate more in Architecture? hmmm… I may be sometime….could you put some money in the meter?

“If we re-enact earth as living connectedness, then we are called to see our place (being placed) in/on the earth in a transformed, enlarged way. We need, then, to re-inhabit our place. … To re-inhabit is to relearn dwelling.”Martin Heidegger