Urban Innuendoes
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Urban Innuendoes - Peter Magyar
Contents
Introduction
1. Library - Birmingham, Michigan
2. Two Mansions - Chicago, Illinois
3. Supreme Court - Montgomery, Alabama
4. PSU President House - State College, Pennsylvania
5.Aalto Concert Hall - Jyväskylä, Finnland
6. AIA Guild House - Fort Lauderdale, Florida
7. Royal Theatre - Copenhagen, Denmark
8. Canal House - Fort Lauderdale, Florida
9. Opera Taipei - Taiwan
10. Museum Oslo - Norway
11. Villa - Dahr el Salaam, Tanzania
THE ANTICIPATORY PEN
Introduction for Urban Innuendoes
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Introduction
In all of my earlier books* one can rightly discover a certain degree of obsession, related to the process of conception of an idea, which can govern the development of the physically manifested new element of our environment. Although the published processes contain this morphogenesis as they actually happen, let me copy a passage from the Thought Palaces
, as my best attempt, to approach verbally this evolution:
To channel the drawings as a first degree differentiation of spirit to matter, is a frightening, but exhilarating experience. We begin with the blessed ignorance of a child and unwavering conviction of the initiated. Our dreams repeatedly elude us, allowing but glimpses of veiled images, the veiled images of our willed reality. If we struggle faithfully, as a miracle, some unremembered imprints occur. We carry not even conceived questions in us for days, then, as sudden relieve, shape is formed from cloudy thoughts.
These words were assembled more than ten years ago, but even today, I couldn’t be as precise, yet at the same time, as un-binding, by trying to grasp an ephemeral phenomenon. The Oxford American College Dictionary defines intuition as the ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning
, while cognitive psychology assumes the