Ecological Architecture – Divine Order

All architecture, even the most sophisticated, is a product of the Earth in one form or another. We might call this the ‘soil’ of architecture. People travel the world to visit beautiful cities: Siena, Venice, Rome, Krakow, Prague. We fall in love with the Italian hill towns and the beauty and simplicity of African mud buildings, but we fail to explain to ourselves why our ‘advanced’ society cannot create such buildings, towns and cities for itself. If the failure of these buildings and cities is that they lack soul, how can we add soul to the soil of architecture?

The world of form is so all-enveloping and so close to us that we sometimes fail to realise its full power. A piece of cardboard will bend even under its own load; yet change the form by folding it to make corrugations and the same thickness cardboard will carry many times its own weight. A block of cast iron or steel will sink when placed in water, yet the same materials worked into an appropriate form will float and sail across the oceans. When several hundred people crowd on to a transatlantic jet and the load of all those people lift off into the sky, it is the power of form in operation; the power of form ‘performing’ what earlier generations would have called miracles. When a piece of Mozart’s music moves us powerfully to tears it is the same power of form in operation. Although the form of a Mozart symphony is of a different order than the aerodynamics of a Boeing 747 it is nevertheless the power of form being precisely applied in both cases.

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How To Produce Booklets With Speed And Convenience

Businessmen go into booklet printing to market their products innovatively to their target market. Primarily, booklets are developed to come up with manuals and pamphlets. Booklets make great travel guides as well. Entrepreneurs like printing booklets because they are multipurpose, which means they can be appropriately printed for various audiences. They are also easily distributed and given away to clients. For a lot of businessmen though, booklet printing can also be an intimidating task especially if you’re creating booklets for a big project. But there’s really no cause for alarm; below are some tips you can try to help you see your booklet printing through.

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Networking Your Way to Prosperity

“Networking” has different definitions. One of these is that it is the practice of meeting other people involved in the same kind of work or business, to share information, support each other, etc. Another definition is that it is a conversation with a purpose – a mutually beneficial exchange of ideas, positive energy, advice, referrals, leads or contacts. If you ask twenty different people what networking is all about, you may get as many as twenty different answers. Therefore, a person’s definition of networking depends on his or her use of this very effective strategy. The fact remains that whether you network to get sales leads, find a new job, have new friends, enhance your career or get referrals, you need to focus on networking as an exchange of information, experience or contacts.

Need for circle expansion
With all the demands on our time made by our business as well as personal life, there is tendency to want to assign little attention to networking. But attempting to do this is wrong because we are constantly being introduced to new people every day, with no disruption to our schedules. Another reason is that by not consistently widening our circles of acquaintances and contacts, we may be severely curtailing our chances of success. It is estimated that an average person should know about 250 people. And each of these people should know another 250 people or thereabouts. This means that for each new person you meet, you gain access to a potential pool of 62,500 people separated from you by just some distance, email or phone calls.

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