To think or not to think.SIR: The central character in Paul Auster's latest, beautiful novel, Oracle Night, buys a blue notebook one day that makes him write, and write well. As it happens, like Paul Auster's blue notebook, Peter Davey's Architectural Review The Architectural Review is a monthly international architectural magazine published in London since 1896. Articles cover the built environment which includes landscape, building design, interior design and urbanism as well as theory of these subjects. has encouraged architects to do things well for the past 25 years. Publishing works in The Architectural Review has always been a guarantee of quality. In the tumultuous world of publications (and there are so many!), The Architectural Review has always remained a secure reference. Peter Davey, like Ulysses tied to the mast mast, large metal or timber pole secured vertically or nearly vertically in a ship, used primarily for supporting sails and rigging. The mast is as old as sailing vessels, and the oldest sailboats depicted (those of ancient Egypt) had a small mast placed forward and of his ship, with his eyes open to all that goes around him, has known how to resist the temptation of Scylla and Charybdis Scylla and Charybdis In Greek mythology, two monsters that guarded the narrow passage through which Odysseus had to sail in his wanderings. These waters are now identified with the Strait of Messina. and has escaped unharmed, after his long odyssey Odyssey (ŏd`ĭsē): see Homer. Odyssey Homer’s long, narrative poem centered on Odysseus. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey] See : Epic Odyssey , to now reach his Ithaca. Really, the central theme of Architecture is, like any other creation, the WHAT and the WHY, the IDEAS capable of generating that Architecture. The Architects' THOUGHTS. And that is what Peter Davey's Architectural Review--a journal of IDEAS, of forms that translate into THOUGHTS--has been throughout these 25 years. To think or not to think, that is the question. Yours etc ALBERTO CAMPO BAEZA Alberto Campo Baeza (Valladolid, 1946) is a Spanish architect. He took classes at the E.T.S. Arquitectura de Madrid, and graduated in 1971. His projects and the things he has produced have been published widely in international magazines. Madrid, Spain |
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