Anahita Khodadad
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Anahita Khodadad
@anahitakhodadad.bsky.social
Architectural designer
Logic does not guarantee any truth outside its own premises.
From Gnostic Architecture, Eric Owen Moss
November 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"Speed of the world and because we're in a kind of culture of obsolescence we basically build things and tear them down very quickly which is anti-environmental we have to think in a new way about what permanent means and flexibility means in architecture and "
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Architect Liz Diller: “You have to be a mind reader" | Louisiana Channel
YouTube video by Louisiana Channel
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May 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
"They did not derive from the site, they actually derived from a future program"
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Metropolitan Transformations, James Corner, ASLA
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May 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"Reason is the result of panic, in that it is the only way to keep panic from spinning out of control and consuming entirely our vital energy. Reason enables us to delay desire, to wait, to dream, and to plan."
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WHEN THE WORLD WAS OLD
When the world was old, all things became possible. Opposites remained opposed, yet found a unity in being so. Sameness was no longer the same, but different at each turn. Time remained infinite, b…
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April 7, 2025 at 1:35 PM
One of my favorite readings today was "ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL 201 "

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ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL 201
Once we have understood the basic structure of a school of architecture, its hierarchical—if paradoxical—composition of faculty, students, and administration, we can move on to the cons…
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April 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
" Complexity. Richness of form. Accident. Undesigned design (they are entirely of human origin). The extraordinary in the ordinary. But also, the mystery of objects, in our apprehension of them, and in their origins, their originality."
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JUNK
Junk piles. I have always been fascinated by them, ever since, as a student, I was taken by a drawing teacher to some railroad yards in central Illinois. There were many things to draw in the lands…
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April 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I have always been so keen to watch all of his new lectures and explore his current projects. I also believe I am in the best age now, where I can reflect on the past and recognize the huge, endless treasure behind me, ready to delve into at any time—just like this lecture.
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Thom Mayne: Architecture is a new way to connect to the world
YouTube video by TED
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March 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Some concepts I have written down so far—to think about, consider, and maybe expand:

Like-minded islands or different elements coming together
Coexistence behind shared walls
Palm house
Constantly evolving
Waiting room
Direct relationship of building and street
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Sarah M. Whiting : Dynamic wholes (October 9, 2024)
YouTube video by SCI-Arc Media Archive
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February 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
From what I’ve observed so far, insufficient education seems to be the main problem in 99% of cases.
February 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Starting here, as I am beginning a new daily routine of reading from a legend.
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LEBBEUS WOODS
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November 18, 2024 at 8:15 AM