john johansen

"Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music."

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling

"In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms."

Friedrich Nietzsche



Mr. Johansen was strolling the beach this morning. No small feat for a 94 year old, seeing as the beach is accessed by climbing down (and then climbing back up) a steep dune. His was a striking image indeed. He told me he was an architect. You Dubliners have seen his work.

Little did I know...