Warszawa 1935, Before it was Bombed
By the way, my own small town was equal as beautiful, but in a more rural way, before the war. Now it's equally destroyed by the silent bombs of modernism, like if the war never ended.
Making the Garden — Christopher Alexander
By Christopher Alexander . Original text at First Things . Rose trellis of Generalife. It has taken me almost fifty years to understand fully that there is a necessary connection between God and architecture, and that this connection is, in part, empirically verifiable. Further, I have come to the view that the sacredness of the physical world—and the potential of the physical world for sacredness—provides a powerful and surprising path towards understanding the existence of God, whatever God may be, as a necessary part of the reality of the universe. If we approach certain empirical questions about architecture in a proper manner, we will come to see God. It comes from realizing that the task of making and remaking the Earth—that which we sometimes call architecture—is at the core of any commonsense understanding of the divine. Only in the last twenty years has my understanding of this connection taken a definite form, and it continues to develop every day....
Warszawa er fantastisk by full av unge jage karriere. Det er ikke noe problem å finne moro der inne. Utdrikningslaget mitt ble holdt i Polen, på New Orleans klubben i Warszawa. Jeg må innrømme at det var verdt det. Beste festen i mitt liv!
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