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compromise
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Catching up with some old Radio 3 programs this evening. Firstly, The Renzo Piano interview by <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/speechanddrama/audioarchive.shtml">John Tulsa</a>.

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RP: "...by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's polluted by life, by the complexity of things."

JT: "By compromise."

RP: "Yes, by compromise, but in some way this compromised art becomes more real and more true than other art."

JT: "Because you have to deal with the compromise, you can't walk away and say 'I won't make a compromise.'"

RP: "Exactly, so the secret is that you don't really <em>do</em> compromise, you are just confronted by life all the time."
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Sounds <a href="http://rob.annable.co.uk/journal.cgi/architecture/brutalised">familiar</a>.

Also worth a listen are the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/speechanddrama/landmarks.shtml">Night Waves: Landmarks programs</a>. For an architectural fix you could try the program on FLW's Guggenheim and listen for the connection with my old entry entitled <a href="http://rob.annable.co.uk/journal.cgi/architecture/thatbuilding">That Building</a>.

Other related entries: <a href="http://rob.annable.co.uk/journal.cgi/design/Edmund_de_Waal">John Tulsa interviews Edmund de Waal</a>.