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by InitialLastName
1958 days ago
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With CAD being what it is, if you have them built to the same plan the engineers will just convert with fairly good precision. What you need is a metric architect and an imperial architect to do plans based on the drawing of a pre-numerate child or (better) a tasteful adult from a culture without measurement units who won't have internalized the visual languages of metric or imperial ratios. edit: Words are hard |
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my two favourite moments in a documentary are #1 in 'the smashing machine' when you glimpse a the boot of the bad girlfriend in the corner, and feel before you know that everything is about to go bad
and #2 in the documentary 'Jean Nouvel: Reflections' about the architect of the same name, where you see him at work, in a dark cozy restaurant at a table surrounded by staff/devotees swirling a full glass of red wine, and he's looping loose enigmatic squiggles on wine stained napkins which he then passes out, a sacred relic, one to each person at the table. And off they go and make the buildings that bear his name.