One of our favourite designers and multi-disciplinary companies, with a strong philosophy, and excellent research, but the best part yet is that BMD says they love collaboration. Bruce Mau collaborated with Rem Koolhaas to produce one of architecture’s best documented intelligence ever, SMLXL and also the beautifully drafted and designed ZONE books series.
on philosophy
" Thinking is a form of [conscious] action, a necessary precursor to making something beautiful."
Huat LIMon design
"Design may indeed be complex, but I could not yet imagine it to be complicated...A work can be torturously complex, extravagant, excessively vulgar even…or it can be so simple and plain, almost to the point where it is devoid of any embellishment or decoration, I wouldn’t have an issue with either, but when it is neither that it is considered utterly mundane and ugly."
Huat LIMon architecture
Yet there is still a little problem I have to solve in my head, and that is that I think architecture is taking a bit too long to becoming like what good art is, generative and always assuming an emotive role. We have yet to make it possible for us to connect to our buildings as easily as we do with a work of art or a piece of music, or things we adore, like our children or our books.
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