“Tradition is a succession of successful innovations.” – Pier Carlo Bontempi Who is Bontempi? He is a contemporary architect, like Léon Krier, Quinlan and Francis Terry, Alan Greenberg et al who cultivate new traditional building, based upon older styles and methods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Carlo_Bontempi http://interactive.wttw.com/bontempi/video Everywhere, new architecture which revives older styles is bubbling-up: in America and…
Month: October 2017
Intention, expression, aesthetics
As music is intentionally a kind of language, meant to share a musical vision (even the most abstract works like some Renaissance polyphony or fugues by J.S. Bach), a vision which is meant to be experienced emotionally, the performance context is defined by expectations of listening where communication is at the centre. We know that…