Peter Magyar

The book is the recording of the interactive genesis of the poetic and the factual in architecture, generated by targeted intuition, so the tangible, materially manifestable result would be really the testimony of its opposite, the ephemeral, infinite space. This genesis is easily readable in the book, even if instead of words, spontaneous or weighted line drawings communicate nonverbal thoughts. The aspects of the Vitruvian 'firmitas' and 'utilitas' have to be also developed the same way, but only 'venustas' awakes awe and delight in our spirit and that is the quality, what these drawn notes are aiming at.Seven examples are narrated in it, one of the twenty-something similar books by the author, with thousands of nonverbal words and sentences in them. His hope is, to legitimize the cognitive and poetic nature of architecture, as well as the method of thinking and communicating with 'written-drawings'. This is the only way, how one can tap into the inexhaustible well of racial memory. Author's ability to produce correctly drawn instantaneous 3D images directly with ink, could be compared only to a musician, with perfect pitch hearing.Design is a mentally and corporally experienced process, which step-by-step evokes the mythology of building, due to the application of the genetic memory of our physical body. Accordingly, architecture, through drawings, in fortuitous cases, through the constructed form, realizes and embodies a philosophy, provided, it investigates the basic questions of knowledge, reality and existence. These are exactly the notions, as the Oxford English Dictionary defines philosophy, and no architect can avoid to give some answers to them during the course of a design. However, by the knowledge of the author - fed by more than fifty years dealing with different aspects of the profession, and being an avid reader - there are no other books, which come even close to the meticulous recording of the creation of our built environment As a non-fiction book, the general validity of the thoughts contained in it is unquestionable. The fact, that the two of the seven projects are among the other constructed buildings, and in some cases, large urban ensembles, designed by the author, reinforces the importance and applicability of the depicted method This book is not about architecture, but THIS BOOK IS ARCHITECTURE ITSELF

Architectural design is, even in its embryonic stage, a thought-condenser process. Most probably, we can not know these thoughts, but certainly could feel them Pending from the intensity of the heat - our passion - of the distillation phase, from the patience and the precision of this translating act - from spirit to matter -, our design might acquire the most coveted quality, timelessness

From among my many preserved complete design processes, these two volumes contain only six of them. To legitimize both the contents and the method, I found it important to (re)publish all six united so they create a new process of their own. The gradual development of ideas, to reach the state of physical reality, begins with hesitant decisions, a possible drawn existence out of the many options. All the projects are large urban ensembles, symphonies in musical terms. Where to find the melody and the harmony of the parts are the almost unresolvable but most challenging tasks of an architect He/She plays a double role-the creator and the user/critic. In these cases, many people will be exposed to, enjoy, or suffer from those decisions. As mentioned, the gradual thought-condensing process has to have several testing phases by our sensory perceptions. From these, only the seeing and somewhat the touching aspects are revealed by the drawings, the others we have to substitute in our imagination. With hundreds of these control substations, hopefully we could avoid offending individualistic solutions, especially if-as this method allows it-the representatives of the users have the chance to express their opinions of the proposals under way. The public responds to these architectural explorations and, in one case, to the constructed result, speaks for their validity.

From among my many preserved complete design processes, these two volumes contain only six of them. To legitimize both the contents and the method, I found it important to (re)publish all six united, so they create a new process of they own. The gradual development of ideas, to reach the state of physical reality, begins with "hesitant decisions," a possible drawn existence out of the many options. All of the projects are large urban ensembles, symphonies in musical terms, where to find the melody, and the harmony of the parts, is the almost unresolvable, but most challenging task of an architect (S)he plays a double role - the creator and the user/critic. In these cases, many people will be exposed to, enjoy or suffer from those decisions. As mentioned, the gradual thought-condensing process has to have several testing phases, by our sensory perceptions. From these, only the seeing and somewhat the touching aspects are revealed by the drawings, the others we have to substitute in our imagination. With hundreds of these control-substations, hopefully we could avoid offending individualistic solutions, especially, if - as this method allows it - the representatives of the users have the chance to express their opinions of the proposals under way. The public responds to these architectural explorations, and in one case, to the constructed result, speaks for their validity.

From among my many preserved complete design processes, these two volumes contain only six of them. To legitimize both the contents and the method, I found it important to (re)publish all six united, so they create a new process of they own. The gradual development of ideas, to reach the state of physical reality, begins with "hesitant decisions," a possible drawn existence out of the many options. All of the projects are large urban ensembles, symphonies in musical terms, where to find the melody, and the harmony of the parts, is the almost unresolvable, but most challenging task of an architect (S)he plays a double role - the creator and the user/critic. In these cases, many people will be exposed to, enjoy or suffer from those decisions. As mentioned, the gradual thought-condensing process has to have several testing phases, by our sensory perceptions. From these, only the seeing and somewhat the touching aspects are revealed by the drawings, the others we have to substitute in our imagination. With hundreds of these control-substations, hopefully we could avoid offending individualistic solutions, especially, if - as this method allows it - the representatives of the users have the chance to express their opinions of the proposals under way. The public responds to these architectural explorations, and in one case, to the constructed result, speaks for their validity.

From among my many preserved complete design processes, these two volumes contain only six of them. To legitimize both the contents and the method, I found it important to (re)publish all six united, so they create a new process of they own. The gradual development of ideas, to reach the state of physical reality, begins with "hesitant decisions," a possible drawn existence out of the many options. All of the projects are large urban ensembles, symphonies in musical terms, where to find the melody, and the harmony of the parts, is the almost unresolvable, but most challenging task of an architect (S)he plays a double role - the creator and the user/critic. In these cases, many people will be exposed to, enjoy or suffer from those decisions. As mentioned, the gradual thought-condensing process has to have several testing phases, by our sensory perceptions. From these, only the seeing and somewhat the touching aspects are revealed by the drawings, the others we have to substitute in our imagination. With hundreds of these control-substations, hopefully we could avoid offending individualistic solutions, especially, if - as this method allows it - the representatives of the users have the chance to express their opinions of the proposals under way. The public responds to these architectural explorations, and in one case, to the constructed result, speaks for their validity.

"...minimal is the effort we need to restore the cosmic scale of our built environment, its meaning and significance... Every building and our whole environment touch infinity and are capable to interpret and to modify the infinite extent of space." (From "Thought Palaces.", p. 11)

"...minimal is the effort we need to restore the cosmic scale of our built environment, its meaning and significance... Every building and our whole environment touch infinity and are capable to interpret and to modify the infinite extent of space." (From "Thought Palaces.", p. 11)