Leonia
Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino: It is not so much by the things that each day are manufactured, sold, bought that you can measure Leonia’s opulence, but rather by the
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Slippery contrivance
From Architecture of Deconstruction, Mark Wigley: The institution of architecture is not concerned with the construction of buildings but with the maintenance of the idea of building, the maintenance of
Alliances
From The Art of War, Sun Tzu: We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbours.
… of Suns
I finished reading House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds, yesterday. It was an interesting read – set millions of years in the future. Here’s a quote: People lived and died
Bora Horza Gobuchul
Bora Horza Gobuchul is the full name of the main character in a book called “Consider Phlebas” by Iain M. Banks first published 1987. I just finished reading it this