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The problem of the new world architecture is: The finiteness of mechanics plus the infiniteness of life. It would be a sad irony if we were to end up creating a world too complicated for us to manage alone, and fail to recognize that some of our own inventions could help us deal with our own complexity. The line between "fad" and ordinary product will progressively blur. We are moving swiftly into the era of the temporary product, made by temporary methods, to serve temporary needs. The turnover of things in our lives thus grows even more frenetic. We face a rising flood of throw-away items, impermanent architecture, mobile and modular products, rented goods and commodities designed for almost instant death. We live in an unending rainfall of images. The most powerful media transform the world into images and multiply it by means of the phantasmagoric play of mirrors. These are images stripped of the inner inevitability that ought to mark every image as form and as meaning, as a claim

.___. Quotes - Arbor Quotes 2019 – present. Arbor A work of art does not ask for meaning; it contains it. Rudolf Arnheim, Entropy and Art , 1971 If there is one eyelash in your eye, flowers in the sky will fall everywhere. Chinhul, Secrets on Cultivating the Mind , 1203 The world determines what we can do and what we do determines our world. Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design , 1986 In the exigencies of thought and in the madness of love is the destructive refusal of the established ways of life. Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimension

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