• a [[person]]
  • [[twitter]] https://twitter.com/bmock
  • likes [[christopher alexander]]
  • interested in [[sustainability]], [[utopias]] (and their dangers)

[[2021-07-08]]

• greetings!
  • dialing in from Iowa
  • exploring the US
  • spent seven months in Italy (Sorrento!)
• [[sorrento]]: [[building beauty]]
  • about [[christopher alexander]]'s work, hands on building
  • 50 fundamental transformation
  • [[the nature of order]]
    • fourth volume is more religious
    • "breaks down god and then builds it back up"
  • some solipsism in it though
    • "I stuff"
  • starts up in book one
    • [[mirror of the self]]
    • wants to build an objective definition of beauty (?)
    • [[degrees of life]]
  • [[gate maker]]
• [[bryan]]
  • undergrad in architecture
  • got a job building homes for the mega rich, didn't like it
  • worked for smaller offices after that
  • came back to [[iowa]]
  • trying to figure out how to work remotely, would like to work 3-4h a day
  • like also working with [[leather]], [[clay]]; ornamental building
• [[flancian]]
• interested in:
  • [[flancia]]
    • started as a [[utopia]]
    • [[protopia]]
  • [[agora]]
  • what do you do about bad actors?
  • what about people that want to take over? or want to own intellectual property
• [[bryan]]
  • mad about how the world is, but still hopeful
  • have tried a few times to get people together
  • dream is now to build a prototype for an ornamental building
• finding people that want similar living arrangements
  • [[twitter]]
  • village life
  • [[bolo bolo]]
  • [[sutty]]
• [[patterning]] == [[reading alexander]]
  • [[building beauty]]
  • [[opening design]]