The acts of building, transporting, communicating and inhabiting become a "choreography of matter" as the community unites in an effort to create more together than one person can alone.
So in this continuous building of bridges, let us keep in mind how they connect and separate, where they began and how they carry our weight into the future, how the acts of building and crossing change us, and what views new bridges unintentionally obstruct while they open our eyes and bodies to these new, enchanted realms.
But the mere act of building the machine has been a powerful exploration of just what we mean when we talk about knowing.
Though she didn't realize it at the time, the very act of building it was an exercise in perspective, of learning to take the long view.
They will detect similarities between one level of the game and another, the complex balancing act of global trade mirroring the complex balancing act of building a sustainable environment.
He uses the term wrongly; it was neither invented nor ever, until now, used to mean "nativism", but rather, the act of building a politics around an identity that defined you, whether by gender or race or sexuality.
Allegory may involve either a creative or an interpretive process: either the act of building up the allegorical structure and giving "body" to the surface narrative or the act of breaking down this structure to see what themes or ideas run parallel to it.
The construction project is the latest to take place in the vicinity of what is regarded as one of Modernist architecture's most famous works, completed in 1929 and used by Melnikov as a home and studio when the very act of building a private house in Soviet Russia was revolutionary.
What increases my pain is this [Islamist] chauvinist arrogance which claims that innocent blood, shed by barbarian, brutal minds under the slogan "Allahu Akbar", means nothing compared to the act of building an Islamic mosque whose mission will be to... spawn new terrorists... Suppose we put ourselves in the place of American citizens.
Yet, as it turned out, it was not simply the act of building it that consecrated it, but that people continued to read it and inscribe stories in it – from Hugo, with his mammoth of a novel, to Disney's animated gargoyles.
The act of building something from nothing is deeply cherished by Silicon Valley.
