Saturday, January 7, 2023

Zelensky and Kahn: Green and Brick

PR media and a construction medium…

Marshall: Zelensky usually elects to appear in a green T shirt. I can imagine him asking, “What are you saying to me, green?” And green says to Zelensky, “I am the color of the fields, I am the color of Ukraine, I am the color of combat.”

Woody: I see where this is going. It’s about the medium suggesting how it is used. In much the same way, Louis Kahn said, "You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' 

Marshall: He talked to the brick?

Woody: Perhaps he was being figurative. I don’t know. But he would go on to say, “And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.'”

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Media decisions carry a message. Building materials define a design. 

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