Comments on: Architectural Heroes http://www.dungan-nequette.com/blog/general/1393/ online musings of Dungan Nequette Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:30:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Tom Ruffer http://www.dungan-nequette.com/blog/general/1393/#comment-997 Tom Ruffer Fri, 27 Apr 2012 05:25:01 +0000 http://www.dungan-nequette.com/blog/?p=1393#comment-997 I think that you have clearly illustrated for me how architecture is a living, breathing thing. It evolves through time and is ever changing. Like human-kind, it’s lineage can always be traced back in time to common ancestors.
I think that maybe you prefer stone because it is a product of nature, crafted by the earth and by God’s hand; each is individual and unique and no two are the same. The same cannot be said about a brick…
However, I’ll have to take issue with you on stones vs. rocks: One “throws stones”, not rocks. A stone can be held in your hand, not a rock….

]]> By: Louis Nequette http://www.dungan-nequette.com/blog/general/1393/#comment-996 Louis Nequette Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:16:03 +0000 http://www.dungan-nequette.com/blog/?p=1393#comment-996 This reminds me of a post by Andres Duaney during an email conversation within the New Urban Arch Guild – when someone tried to pin down the source of one building’s style. It exemplifies my design approach without doubt:
“…Rosemary Beach picked it up when Liz Guyton, the town architect, visited Aruba on an architectural gene-pool collection expedidion and Scott Merrill noticed it and did something with it. Aruba picked it up when the Dutch colonized it. The Dutch picked it up when some of their guys visited Rome.
Architecture travels like plants do. As seeds in the belly of birds. Our revered local styles began as random droppings. Some took and some didnt. Some were able to evolve. There is no such thing as a local style that does not BECOME one.”

-Now if only those that we know won’t “take” would quickly die!

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