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Feng Shui

No hill in line. No tree in front.
No john above. No wet beneath.
No mirrored hall or bush too tall.
No stove with sleep or land too deep.
No street too high or wall you’ll die.
No number four, no squared off door
No poisoned corner corner corner corner
– where’s that fucking mirror.
No stop. Look. Go. No door face door.
No decisions without my secret compass.
No evil. No doubt. No end. No.
Fengshui. Somehow, the master forgets about smell, sound and touch.
Ask one and bewilderment will never have looked so complete;
it is all about seen and the no-that-can’t-be-done.
They forget about exceptions to the no because their books only speak of rules,
not when and how they can be broken.
Fengshui. The subversive art of sight, smell, taste, touch, sound and yes.


~Small Projects by Kevin Mark Low


This abstract inspired me a lot after I read the entire book of Small Projects by the Legendary Kevin Mark Low who designed, to me, the most pleasant, experiential and sustainable building in Malaysia, non other than PJ Trade Centre at Damansara Perdana, so to speak. And yes, practicality and feasibility are essential elements that we should learn as we blossom in the world of architecture, not of buildings, but of people and our senses. After working at ZLG Design for a period of two weeks, I started to change my mindset of thinking, to create buildings that value experiences, not merely form making, massing and aesthetics at this point. Yes, all architecture has to have a certain degree of aesthetics but what is aesthetics without quality? Both elements intertwines and twines and twines and we'll whine when we're out of ideas and all.

Phenomenology. The sixth sense. Practicality. Theoretical thinking. Critical learning. Firdaus Khazis. Melbourne University.

So be it, architecture! I'll be back in August!