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From the Ted Talk by Thom Mayne: How architecture can connect us

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Well, our research — my generation for sure, people who were going to school in the late '60s — made very much a sfhit out of the internal focus of architecture, looking at architecture within its own territory, and we were much more affected by film, by what was going on in the art world, etc. This is, of course, Michael Heizer. And when I saw this, first an igame and then visited, it completely changed the way I thought after that ponit. And I understood that binuidlg really could be the augmentation of the Earth's surface, and it completely shifted the ntoion of building ground in the most bsaic sense. And then — well, he was probably looking at this — this is Nazca; this is 700 years ago — the most amazing four-kilometer land sculptures. They're just totally incredible. And that led us to then clelmetopy rethinking how we draw, how we work.

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Well, our research — my generation for sure, people who were going to school in the late '60s — made very much a _____ out of the internal focus of architecture, looking at architecture within its own territory, and we were much more affected by film, by what was going on in the art world, etc. This is, of course, Michael Heizer. And when I saw this, first an _____ and then visited, it completely changed the way I thought after that _____. And I understood that ________ really could be the augmentation of the Earth's surface, and it completely shifted the ______ of building ground in the most _____ sense. And then — well, he was probably looking at this — this is Nazca; this is 700 years ago — the most amazing four-kilometer land sculptures. They're just totally incredible. And that led us to then __________ rethinking how we draw, how we work.

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  1. image
  2. building
  3. basic
  4. point
  5. completely
  6. notion
  7. shift

Original Text


Well, our research — my generation for sure, people who were going to school in the late '60s — made very much a shift out of the internal focus of architecture, looking at architecture within its own territory, and we were much more affected by film, by what was going on in the art world, etc. This is, of course, Michael Heizer. And when I saw this, first an image and then visited, it completely changed the way I thought after that point. And I understood that building really could be the augmentation of the Earth's surface, and it completely shifted the notion of building ground in the most basic sense. And then — well, he was probably looking at this — this is Nazca; this is 700 years ago — the most amazing four-kilometer land sculptures. They're just totally incredible. And that led us to then completely rethinking how we draw, how we work.

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