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Architecture and Ecology

Course code: ARCH 3028
Years: 2026, 2025

Undergraduate course: lectures, readings and research reports.

Space is a doubt: I have constantly to mark it, to designate it. — Georges Perec
We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. — Jun’ichirō Tanizaki
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears. — Italo Calvino
The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand. — Italo Calvino
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. — Jorge Luis Borges
We cut doors and windows to make a room; it is the empty space that makes it useful. — Laozi
Time is not linear; it is a marvellous entanglement where, at any moment, points can be chosen and solutions invented. — Lina Bo Bardi
What attracts me is the free and sensual curve. — Oscar Niemeyer
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? — Zaha Hadid
The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. — Kazimir Malevich
The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. — Wassily Kandinsky
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings. — Agnes Martin
Architecture is a political act, by nature. — Lebbeus Woods
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. — Paul Klee
Working in philosophy, like work in architecture in many respects, is really more a working on oneself. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The world is not what I think, but what I live through. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more. — Aldo van Eyck
The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. — Sol LeWitt

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