Summary of July, 2004
The main themes of July, 2004 were Le Corbusier’s city planning theories, Italo Calvino, and software architecture and development.
By the start of the month, I was following up on responses to my posts from the previous month on Le Corbusier’s theories on city planning:
During the month, I read Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler and Time and the Hunter—Rob Annable invited me to do a joint reading with him of the latter.
- “Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,”
- “Notes on Italo Calvino’s Time and the Hunter 1,”
- “Notes on Italo Calvino’s Time and the Hunter 2,”
- “Notes on Italo Calvino’s Time and the Hunter 3,” and
- “Notes on Italo Calvino’s Time and the Hunter 4.”
This month I visited Copenhagen with my family, as has now become a tradition. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art held at the time a great exhibition of Jørn Utzon’s works.
- “Johan Fogh om Jørn Utzon” (in Swedish), and
- “Utzon Exhibition at Louisiana.”
This exhibition influenced my reading of Calvino, and my thoughts on software architecture and development: