{"id":22484,"date":"2012-11-22T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/explore-blog-explore-blog-i-had-the-pleasure\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:35:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:35:07","slug":"explore-blog-explore-blog-i-had-the-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/explore-blog-explore-blog-i-had-the-pleasure\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22484 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/explore-blog-explore-blog-i-had-the-pleasure\/attachment\/22485\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mdurr9uHsh1rqpa8po1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/post\/36225773999\/i-had-the-pleasure-of-discussing-the-modulor-at\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">explore-blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/explore-blog.tumblr.com\/post\/36225773999\">explore-blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I had the pleasure of discussing the \u201cModulor\u201d at some length with Professor Albert Einstein at Princeton. I was then passing through a period of great uncertainty and stress; I expressed myself badly, I explained the \u201cModulor\u201d badly, I got bogged down in the morass of \u201ccause and effect\u201d\u2026 At one point, Einstein took a pencil and began to calculate. Stupidly, I interrupted him, the conversation turned to other things, the calculation remained unfinished. The friend who had brought me was in the depths of despair. In a letter written to me the same evening, Einstein had the kindness to say this of the \u201cModulor\u201d: \u201cIt is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult and the good easy.\u201d There are some who think this judgement is unscientific. For my part, I think it is extraordinarily clear-sighted. It is a gesture of friendship made by a great scientist towards us who are not scientists but soldiers on the field of battle. The scientist tells us: \u201cThis weapon shoots straight: in the matter of dimensioning, i.e. of proportions, it makes tour task more certain.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Le Corbusier<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archdaily.com\/167240\/le-corbusier-meets-albert-einstein\/\">meets<\/a> <strong>Albert Einstein<\/strong>\u00a0at Princeton in 1946, traveling to New York to present at the United Nations his project for the UN Headquarters. Complement with this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/02\/23\/systematic-wonder\/\">beautiful definition of science as \u201csystematic wonder.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>explore-blog: explore-blog: I had the pleasure of discussing the \u201cModulor\u201d at some length with Professor Albert Einstein at Princeton. I was then passing through a period of great uncertainty and stress; I expressed myself badly, I explained the \u201cModulor\u201d badly, I got bogged down in the morass of \u201ccause and effect\u201d\u2026 At one point, Einstein [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[657,42,656],"class_list":["post-22484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","tag-blown","tag-design","tag-mind","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5QE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22486,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22484\/revisions\/22486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}