And you don’t even know, bub….with these drugs your perception is altered enough that you find yourself looking out of completely strange eyeholes. All of us have a great deal of our minds locked shut. We’re shut off from our own world. And these drugs seem to be the key to open these locked doors….
– Tom Wolfe – The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Necessity compels [architecture] to operate with concepts, but this necessity must not be turned into the virtue of their priority
– Theodor W. Adorno [modified]
“Analogical” thought is sensed yet unreal, imagined yet silent; it is not a discourse but rather a meditation on themes of the past, an interior monologue. Logical thought is “thinking in words.” Analogical thought is archaic, unexpressed, and practically inexpressible in words.
– Carl Jung via Aldo Rossi’s ‘An Analogical Architecture’
[Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban/National Assembly Building of Bangladesh - Louis Kahn]
the yada yada:
For each chapter of Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (KAT) a few paragraphs form Theodor W. Adorno's Negative Dialectics (ND) will be ripped off and modified.
Chapters 3 thru 6 (KAT) - The Electric Suit, What Do You Think of My Buddha?, The Rusky-Dusky Neon Dust, The Bus
Disenchantment of the Concept(ND)
Boredom as a result of too much to do. Too much professional practice architecture. Too much reality. Lots of fiction and lots of history.
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