LESS IS MORE
It 's really hard to find a phrase more representative of the work of a person as a sentence by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , a famous architect German.
At the same time it seems hardly possible that a sentence so absolute limit to the dogmatic, can fascinate as a someone like me, that the rules have always had big problems. As
want to distinguish between love and on every occasion, to be honest I just can not find fault with a phrase that I often think should guide the life of each one of us ... although I can not deny that sometimes the abundance has been able to create works really fascinating, because of their utter uselessness. There is an indescribable charm
however, the work of Mies van der Rohe: the charm of the archetype, the very essence of things brought to light. The soul of architecture, spaces and activities it houses.
OK, I know ... I speak as an architect and everything will be incomprehensible to most people, but now I'll try to be more clear, using the concept of LESS IS MORE to life every day.
We have the need to move to go and buy cigarettes or a coffee ... we say that we must travel 300-400 yards. What do we do? Most likely, if we have available, we will use the car ... This means that to move our ass about 70kg of 300-400 meters, instead of using the organs that nature has given us, we decide to move to 1000 kg, making it probably more than 500 (because then the car is parked ).
We have to walk 3-4 km, carrying a bag of a few kg ... we do not then no problem to use the car ... but it is always moving 1,000 kg of scrap metal for an activity for which a normal bike (as electricity) would be more than enough.
We chose that we should live at home with his undershirt in winter and summer shirt, we decided that it is our right to stay awake at night and sleep during the day, it seems a normal thing to see the showcase dell'autogrill full of fresh rolls at any time of day or night, knowing that this means throw away a good percentage.
We believe it right to spend the resources of this planet, preferring not to think that these resources belong to us, but also belong to our future generations. Not we do to hide problems under the rug tons and tons of waste and pollution, knowing that tomorrow will not disappear but will be back to visit us, torturing our consciousness and our children's lives.
Riappropriamoci common sense ... rethink our lifestyle is the only solution possible to trace a systemic crisis that has as its main reason for the depletion of natural resources .
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