Aug 18 2009
Dream
The Dream
This website is an attempt to realise a youthful dream. The dream, to make the world more peaceful.
The dream lead to a belief that if a man could be at peace in his home, as a direct result of the physical building, he would be less inclined to get up in the morning to go to war.
The privilege of a good education suggested, it might just be possible to translate a dream for all of alls benefit.
Architecture, should lead to a happy place. JG’09
Search & Discovery
We went in search of a house or building that might deliver quiet calm.
Many beautiful building were found. Beautiful buildings by Schindler & Eames, Corbusier and Rietveld.
However, and more importantly, we discovered a method of building that has a calming influence.
The method is a system incorporating a measure series that mediates between our inner and outer worlds.
The Abbey
In the walls of the Abbey at Vaals we found a treatise for Architecture like none since those built, or written by the Greeks, Vitruvius, Palladio or Corbusier.
The clarity experienced in the abbey at Vaals was explained away as a direct result of the measures used to mark out the walls and courts and gardens.