Embodied Philosophy

Meditations on Corporate Architecture

“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”
— Constantin Brancusi
Sculptor (1876 – 1957)

“Music is liquid architecture. Architecture is Frozen Music.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“A great architect is not made by way of the brain

Shovel & Pink Tights

The circus came to town. Dad and I made the trip to see the parade down 4th Avenue. Later that night we saw the Main Event under the Big Top! The Elephants were my favorites — a long line of them. There, sitting atop the leader, at the head of the column, was a girl in pink tights and a satin leotard, her blonde hair pulled tightly back in a jaunty pony tail! She had the best job in the world!

Later, during the show, I saw her again as the Elephants took their places in the center ring

Command? or Comment?

“Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”
Henry II played by Peter O’Toole
in Becket

It was a pointed comment made in a moment of rage.

It resulted in the death of Thomas

Above Politics?

“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean that politics will not take an interest in you.”
— Pericles
Athenian General, Orator and Statesman
495 BC – 429 BC

Said a client recently, “Hey, I’m not interested in politics. I just want to do my job and get great results!”

Fun Works!

“If it ain’t fun, it ain’t worth doing!”
—J. R. St.John

Somewhere in childhood, the campaign to sap every shred of fun out of life begins in earnest:

• Hallways are not for running or sliding!
• Hair