hi all,
just a quick break from all this:
i came across this little piece of gold while perusing steven holl's 'anchoring' and wanted to share it with you. i found it quite inspiring...
"ideas cultivated from the first perception of the site, meditations upon initial thoughts, or a reconsideration of existing topography can become the framework for invention. this mode of invention is focused through relative space, as distinct from universal space. it is in a bounded domain. architecture is an extension; a modification establishing absolute meanings relative to a place. even when a new work is an inversion of inherent conditions, its order attempts to embody an aspect, or illuminate a specific meaning distinct from generalities of abstract space. an ideal exists in the specific; an absolute in the relative."