MAS = More

5 months ago

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5 months ago

Young architects who confront social issues often abandon both architecture and urban design, frustrated by their irrelevance – as practised by many professionals - to real urban problems. They embrace instead social or systems planning, or projects which demand social and communal concern rather than professional service. This is wasteful and should be unnecessary. For the best thing an architect or urban designer can offer a new society, apart from a good heart, is his own skill, used for the society, to develop a respectful understanding of its cultural artefacts and a loving strategy for their development to suit the needs and way of life of its people. This is a socially responsible activity; it is after all, what Gans and the pop artists are doing. Denise Scott Brown, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, May 1969, 184-86

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5 months ago

When you’re doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you’re not going to cheese out. If you don’t love something, you’re not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much. Steve Jobs in “Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson

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9 months ago

It’s gone. And that’s good. Imagine it would still be there, but run down and decrepit in Barcelona. Everyone who remembered it clean and precise would be disappointed. Mies van der Rohe to Frei Otto

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1 year ago

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1 year ago

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money. Alexis de Tocqueville circa 18th century

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1 year ago

By and large talent is in such short supply, mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered. Charles Saatchi in “My name is Charles Saatchi and I am an artoholic”, Phaidon, 2009

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1 year ago

Digital magazines can add audio, animation and video, however they lose in other areas: touch, smell, weight are all sensations that digital magazines don’t have control of. In the very best magazines, these are carefully curated as part of the story. Andrew Losowsky

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2 years ago

What I’m looking for in art is something that leaves me a different person after being exposed to it, art that asks me questions, that challenges me, instead of presenting me with the obvious.

The obvious bores me.

Jörg M. Colberg in his post Thoughts on a quiet, very cold Sunday.

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MAS = More

MAS = MORE is a space for more connection, more collaboration, more discovery and more design capacity. MAS = MORE is created by MAS Studio, a collaborative architecture and urban design firm directed by Iker Gil.

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