Seattle Central Library, OMA, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2002-04
SPACE Infra/structure infrastructure: 1. the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. plural: infrastructures hard infrastructure clover-shaped highways over city grid hard infrastructure city streets interpreted by Central Park soft, ephemeral infrastructure (marathon) using hard park infrastructure (paths) NYC Marathon in Central Park hard infrastructure (roads and bus stops), soft overlay (changing bus routes) networks of museums and churches network of gay bars network of kid sites datum: 1. a piece of information 2. a fixed starting point of a scale or operation plural: data, datums from Latin: that which is given Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí, Barcelona, Spain, 1883-present 172 m / 564.3 feet Torre Glòries (Torre Agbar), Jean Nouvel, Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí Barcelona, Spain, 2005 Barcelona, Spain, 1883-present 128.3 m / 421 feet 172 m / 564.3 feet Torre Glòries (Torre Agbar), Jean Nouvel, Barcelona, Spain, 2005 town square building waterfront bridge tree artwork art person SPACE Function “. form (ever) follows function.” "Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple- blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change, form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever- brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies, in a twinkling. It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function.
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