"Instead of creating mere objects of visual seduction, architecture relates, mediates and projects meanings. The ultimate meaning of any building is beyond architecture; it directs our consciousness back to the world and towards our own sense of self and being. Significant architecture makes us experience ourselves as complete embodied and spiritual beings. In fact, this is the great function of all meaningful art."
from Eyes of the Skin
Jake, this is one of my favorite passages. One of my favorite things Julio said last semester was that there are thousands of ways we can get at the real truth behind human life, and that we should choose a life's pursuit that will best allow us to do that. You can do it through medicine, philosophy, carpentry, gardening, business, etc. This is why I choose architecture.
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