Mr. Lott said he would like to see the idea linked to a reduction in the capital gains tax.
The idea links the combination of languor and urgency in his work to a moral situation we all know.
Yet decades later I can remember Al's musings: circling an idea, linking it with others, trying different vantage points, exploring variations on a theme.
"We had what we felt was a very strong idea – linking soup and the daily air quality index – but how would that be expressed in architecture?
A single, radical idea links its calls for decentralisation and "localism", for a voluntarist "Big Society", more autonomous "free schools" or students empowered to shop around for their degrees.
Working memory limitations had an impact only on the reach of idea links.
The reach of idea links was found to be smaller in the second half of the BF design sessions.
The results show that there is no significant difference between sketching and not sketching based on three assessments: design outcome, cognitive activity and idea links.
A new study backs that idea, linking a gene that is triplicated in Down syndrome to a lower risk of colon cancer in mice.
He has also done much to tackle the pernicious idea, linked to this and propogated by scholars such as Robert Putnam, that immigrant diversity is damaging for solidarity (Putnam, 2007).
