Thursday 14 June 2007

everything sounds better with a foreign accent


Very happy that Architecture, Building and Planning at Melbourne University have finally gotten into ilectures for all those times I can't make a public lecture at 6.30 during the work week.

Soon. hopefully. a geek at that establisment will have the lectures either podcast (so i can be educated while on the go) or uploaded on You-Tube (so there are visuals)

Anyway, I was listening to Willy Andrews (Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia) talk about contemporary design projects of his own and those of fellow architects in Bogotá, Colombia this afternoon and as part of his introduction he said this...

"That is why we must look for architecture that, like a woman with interior beauty or a fine wine, gets better every year."

Can you imagine that line with an Australian accent? ... I think not.
Dean's Lecture Series