circling, circling with an oozing open wound

 

Cambridge Memorial Hospital needs a multi-level covered parking garage as it rains often and snows and freezes for half the year; it could resemble 94 year old First Nations architect Douglas Cardinal's Ottawa Museum of History:

 

Walmart heiress changes the local scene

 

geodesic

 

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
- Buckminster Fuller [1895-1973]

left school at 16

on modesty

"Not the greatest architect that has ever lived. The greatest architect that ever will live."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Routine

"I wake up at 4:30am and begin drawing by 5am."
- David Adjaye

peas

A rerun from 2008:

Of all defendants, only Albert Speer [1905-1981] admitted guilt at the Nuremberg Trials. 

On how he knew the Reich was losing: "The glorious victories of the Fatherland were coming ever closer to Berlin."

Speer received a 20-year jail sentence for war crimes; for a while he slept most of the day to cut his awake time substantially until the prison authorities became aware of what he was up to.

He filled a coat pocket with peas and would transfer one to an empty pocket to keep track of each lap around the path in the modest prison garden he tended. Through prison atlases and other books, Speer imagined that he was covering interesting foreign landscapes and calculated that he had walked around the earth at least once.

A source for some of this information is Albert Speer's own Spandau: The Secret Diaries, which was written in scraps and secretly smuggled out by guards and published ten years after his release in 1976.

collaboration at the Sydney Opera House

"I regret that I have to create so many problems for people ... that's the life of an architect."
- I.M. Pei

Sir Norman Foster's Beijing Airport is the largest covered structure in the world.

Image source here.

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

perfect circle

Pericles and Aspasia at the Studio of Phidias

Phidias [5th century BCE] was known to draw perfect circles freehand.

swirling stainless steel

Frank Gehry's $74 million Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas

warmth

"Ideas come to me in droves."

- America's first architect Bejamin LaTrobe, who declared bankruptcy twice, and burned his furniture for warmth, and proved that even if one is brilliant and hardworking, one can fail.

Hitler's Architect

Of all defendants, only Albert Speer [1905-1981] admitted guilt at the Nuremberg Trials.

On how he knew the Reich was losing: "The glorious victories of the Fatherland were coming ever closer to Berlin." 

Speer received a 20-year jail sentence for war crimes; for a while he slept most of the day to cut his awake time substantially until the prison authorities became aware of what he was up to. 

He filled a coat pocket with peas and would transfer one to an empty pocket to keep track of each lap around the path in the modest prison garden he tended. Through prison atlases and other books, Speer imagined that he was covering interesting foreign landscapes and calculated that he had walked around the earth at least once. 

A source for some of this information is Albert Speer's own Spandau: The Secret Diaries, which was written in scraps and secretly smuggled out by guards and published ten years after his release in 1976.