I don't know a huge amount about architecture, if I am honest. But walking past this building at the University today I was seeing things for the first time. Like the 'eye' on the wall as the sun shines through the circle cut out to show a view of the sky, and look too at the image of the outer curtain sculpture as it reflects off the wall. The other pictures help with the perspective but as I walked up the steps in the sunshine, to an 8am meeting this morning, I was reminded that a University is all about seeing the new, being alert to the new and responding to the world as it changes day to day. In many ways, these pictures help to explain that in a way I could never have designed - but that's okay, we can't all be designers, architects and so on. But I saw the place where I work anew today. Fresh eyes and at 8am I was working on a new project and new ideas and these pictures just become a visual representation of that newness. And newness, seeking the fresh challenge, the new idea, the allusive thought is a real thrill, 'Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow,' wrote Wittgenstein, 'You doze off and die in your sleep.' Well, I am not ready to start sleepwalking towards that. But tonight I will park these thoughts and strum my Martin guitar over some lyrics about Amelia Earhart and maybe I will have a gluten free Estrella Damm beer as well, just because I can. I have posted this clip before but I just fancied hearing this version again - rivers flow and rivers run:
I don't know a huge amount about architecture, if I am honest. But walking past this building at the University today I was seeing things for the first time. Like the 'eye' on the wall as the sun shines through the circle cut out to show a view of the sky, and look too at the image of the outer curtain sculpture as it reflects off the wall. The other pictures help with the perspective but as I walked up the steps in the sunshine, to an 8am meeting this morning, I was reminded that a University is all about seeing the new, being alert to the new and responding to the world as it changes day to day. In many ways, these pictures help to explain that in a way I could never have designed - but that's okay, we can't all be designers, architects and so on. But I saw the place where I work anew today. Fresh eyes and at 8am I was working on a new project and new ideas and these pictures just become a visual representation of that newness. And newness, seeking the fresh challenge, the new idea, the allusive thought is a real thrill, 'Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow,' wrote Wittgenstein, 'You doze off and die in your sleep.' Well, I am not ready to start sleepwalking towards that. But tonight I will park these thoughts and strum my Martin guitar over some lyrics about Amelia Earhart and maybe I will have a gluten free Estrella Damm beer as well, just because I can. I have posted this clip before but I just fancied hearing this version again - rivers flow and rivers run:
