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                                             March 17, 2012

                                        BUILDINGS_LEARN
   There was a BBC television
   version of "How Buildings
   Learn" in 6 parts, made in 1997.
                                       http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8639555925486210852

   In the initial introductory
   narration, the accompanying
   visuals are a quick flashing of
   images of different buildings

   There are some impressive ambiguities
   between the words and the images.
   there's an impressive ambiguity:

   Is he dismissing the Transamerica
   Pyramid as "arrogant" (as Gary
   Snyder did) or it he offering it
   as an example of a building that    They show the Golden Gate Bridge
   "flows with time"?                  as well... is that an example of
                                       "flowing with time"?

                                       It's a better example of a fixed,
                                       unchanging rock resisting the flow,
                                       isn't it?





              It is to Brand's credit that even though
              he's largely dismissing le Corbusier's
              work-- pointing out how nearly everyone who
              lives in it wants to mess with it, humanize
              it-- he includes the voice of people who
              went the other way, who adapted their lives
              to squeeze into le Corbusier's spare, clean
              vision "it purifies the soul to live in a le
              Corbusier building".



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