Red makes you inventive:

While thought by color psychology to support aggression, red can have an incredibly stimulating effect when used sparingly. The right shade of red stimulates thought processes.

Pink is my favorite color:

Some gender stereotypes seem to never die. However, boycotting pink is no solution. We recommend a forward leap.

Without a glass palace,
life is a burden!

Those who do not trust Paul Scheerbart’s 1915 ode to transparency may appreciate its follow up:

Colored glass
shatters hate!

A robber dared a reckless feat, to kick the open door complete.

What challenges common sense in Vera Ferra-Mikura’s poem brings a sense of order to the interplay of transparency and enclosure in educational architecture.

Clay is molded to make a pot,
but it is in the space where
there is nothing that the
usefulness of the clay pot lies.

Cut out doors and windows
to make a room, but it is in
the spaces where there is
nothing that the usefullness
of the room lies.

(…) Benefit may be derived
from something, but it is in
nothing that we find usefulness.

Lao Tzu

One time there was a picket fence with space to gaze from hence to thence.

An architect who saw this sight approached it suddenly one night, removed the spaces from the fence and built of them a residence.

Christian Morgenstern

Because what counts is the in‑between, only in‑between is there still any room, sang the Austrian new wave band “Leider keine Millionäre” in the mid-1980s.

What applies to intellectual spaces also applies to real spaces: things get exciting when boundaries dissolve in the in‑between.

And the tree was happy:

Thus ends each episode of Shel Silverstein’s children’s book The Giving Tree—the story of a generous tree that gives its young friend first shade and adventure, then fruit and timber, until only a stump remains on which the friend, now old, finally rests.

Can we tell a different, better story today—through building?