Re: test (poem?) by whomevers

>[architecture as interface comes with the architecture of schizophrenic
>interfacing...]
>
>[buildings constantly move, doors can be windows, windows can be doors,
>stairs to Pilate are climbed annually on knees, walls may soon all talk,
>floors will mostly remain flat, ceilings with sprinklers are virtual skys
>that harbor emergency rain, roofs probably more than anything manifest
>architecture's shape, lights, camera, Africa, machines to create
>architecture with, furniture and painting as one, utilities that never fail
>(sic), plants, of course, grass gets high, sidewalk, siderun, sidecrawl,
>sidesit, sideroll-over, driveway complete with Jeep, garage sale as
>museum,..]
>
>and through the fanlight
>flies the fanmail
>like a pigeon
>with a fantail

what is first,

what are first principles of architecture..?

does architecture have any first (universal) principles..

what kind of architecture does..

[reading The Theory of Architecture by Paul-Alan Johnson]

(his theory is that theory does not lead architectural practice,
but that "Design-Talk" is the ultimate role of theory in relation
to practice. that is, a critical discourse as theory-practice..)

does architecture value the pragmatics of theory/research in
terms of Design-Talk?
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