Fernando Pessoa:
I enjoy speaking. Or rather, I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities. Perhaps because real sensuality doesn't interest me in the least, not even intellectually or in my dreams, desire in me metamorphosed into my aptitude for creating verbal rhythms and for noting them in the speech of others. I tremble when someone speaks well.
This is from Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, ed/tr Richard Zenith, Penguin Books, 2003, p224, and cited by Rafael Moneo in his discussion of the work of Alvaro Siza in Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects, MIT Press, 2004, p201.
Siza is the replacement architect for the 2005 Serpentine summer pavilion in London, MVRDV's mountain scheme (alt. 23m) having been abandoned, or at least shelved.
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