Lois Farfel Stark

Writer, speaker, former filmmaker. Loves to think about shape of thinking. Author of THE TELLING IMAGE

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Architecture imitates natures, incorporates nature, at micro and macro levels. https://t.co/NMVs75n2AN

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This public library in China is not the old rectangular racks and stacks of books. The 360-degree feeling of being at the center of knowledge and seeing more all at once opens the mind to think more expansively and connectedly. https://t.co/pDIqHoFwoM

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World renown architect Frank Gehry's last work is being built as Abu Dhabi's Performing Arts Center. While it is made of hard materials, it gives the feel of fabric's flow, making me imagine a past time when tents rose from the desert.
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A square, a triangle, a circle - are elevated to elegant and eloquent shapes in Tadao Ando's design that houses the national culture of Uzbekistan. Individual cultural expressions are treasured in universal basic forms in utterly unique expression.
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The shape of Vaults - a design choice from Roman times returns today in multiple materials, concrete, timber or steel, and in modern homes. The old is new again, elevating the sense of space. (Image by Studio House)
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Like archaeology, past layers reveal civilizations. Antwerp's oldest European skyscraper (1929-1932) will get a glass extension by Daniel Libeskind, featuring a cultural center, art exhibition, and rooftop garden. https://t.co/WmZzmWPW5A

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Even more than our immediate shelters of homes or apartment towers, we are housed by the cities in which we live. Norman Foster, the world-renowned architect, is inaugurating an Institute to study sustainable cities. We build houses, but cities house us. https://t.co/WBWAFY7agG

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A treetop walkway in Norway allows one to experience soaring like an eagle among the tops of trees or walking at the level a monkey might swing from tree to tree. This winding path at the top of trees opens nature at another level, eye to eye.
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In Shanghai, Heatherwick Studio designed a building wrapped in ribbons that entwine and can be used as stairs, bridges, and terraces. The West Bund Orbit exhibition is airy and open to nature. https://t.co/K2AJRV3Ngd

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While history gives us versions of a story, a telling image has the power to tap a deeper understanding. I practiced seeing with new eyes, open to take in the unfamiliar and to discover clues to another culture’s worldview. https://t.co/WuwkpmqyaA

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Surprise! I checked into the hotel Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica and found a copy of my book on the table by my bed. I was at the hotel for a family wedding, and it was a thrill to learn that most of the guests had copies of my book in their rooms. Thank you, Casa Del Mar.

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The past is always present. At the Korean War Memorial in DC, the faces of soldiers from the 1950s are etched in stone, reflecting onto visitors’ faces and the current season’s foliage. The past overlays the present, blurring time and making the past feel alive.

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Round and round she goes, and how fast she forms seems to be even faster than you think. Scientists just recently learned that Rebels-25 was formed only 700 million years after the big bang. A short childhood for the enormity of a galaxy disc.
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Like fashion itself, which conceals and reveals, the signature buildings of luxury brands tell their message of identity and quality through the facade of their main stores. https://t.co/BguGobBqLL

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As a documentary filmmaker, I traveled the globe seeking the answer to one question: How do humans make sense of the world? From Abu Dhabi to Cuba to Liberia, I found a key hiding in plain sight. It was shape itself. https://t.co/WuwkpmqyaA

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See sound harmonics. Hear a conch shell. The structure of the first nine harmonics of a harmonic series looks the same as the structure of a conch shell. Patterns repeat throughout the universe.

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This smiley face of a ring with two circles, placed where the eyes are on our face, helps us identify a spot on Mars. https://t.co/Zw6zsxjSxY

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Through the pandemic, we relearned we are part of nature. Viruses are part of us, between us, in us, connecting us. Viruses are highly adaptive. Maybe they are teaching us how to evolve. https://t.co/atJDmkFnua

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Seeing from the outside what lies inside. There's a new database of images of the insides - wildly different vertebrate configurations--from fish, turtles, snakes, and birds. These can now be seen without dissection.
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The past is still present. Even in dinosaur eggs. A 1.14 inch dinosaur egg was discovered in China, in a bundle of six eggs from 80 million years ago. https://t.co/xLgs7Fxsjp