democracy, struggle, society, architecture

Sullivan believed that art must become a value in democratic society that could stand beside business, politics, science and religion in shaping the mind and heart of America…what happened in architecture determined what happened in society.  “Therefore, by this light, the critical study of architecture becomes not merely the direct study of an art – but…the study of social conditions producing it; the study of a newly shaping type of civilization.”  …what we did with our buildings…determined how we related as citizens of a democratic community.

Culture and Democracy:  The Struggle for Form in Society and Architecture in Chicago and the Middle West during the Life and Times of Louis H. Sullivan, Hugh Dalziel Duncan

  

"Ensanguining the skies
How heavily it dies 
Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found,
How hopeless under ground 
Falls the remorseful day." 

A.E. Houseman

...nevertheless another vimeo album
NB Experience of these vimeos may be a not-so-easily acquired 'taste' aided with a simultaneously mixed soundtrack of your choosing.
 

Keck Energiewende, Housing 

with this video link (clicking to advance clips) https://vimeo.com/album/4323792

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From the blog weeds-seeds-and-needs file:
Dynamic Ecology (with an inspired subtitle: multa novit vulpes)
https://dynamicecology.wordpress.com/

A stalwart tribe:  Ocean Arks formerly New Alchemy Institute
http://www.oceanarksint.org/


And an unscheduled guest appearance from Germany
Bastian Hoffman
How to adjust an apartment to the natural outdoor temperature (winter)
Video, Farbe, Ton, 02:18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfXbOtr37jQ&t=59s