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"orogeny... the process of mountain formation, esp.
by folding of the earth's crust."

Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary


"I have wanted to keep everything reasonable and clear-
to have an architecture that anybody can do."

Mies van der Rohe


As in the recent past, the current art has set its 
trap for you, the young professional students, who
are searching for it with presumed impatience; it 
seems to be easy to do.

In art schools of the 1950's, young people were encouraged often to wield a loaded brush against all surfaces and to weld something rusty to something rusty to something rusty and so forth. Insouciance was our of order. The serious look of broad emotional gestures for complicated spaces was promoted. A certain passion could be expected to guarantee results-well, almost results.

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