Verticality Can Kill Poem by gershon hepner

Verticality Can Kill



Verticality will often kill
collaboration, but when horizontal,
the spirit is allowed to spread and spill
by fraternizing freely, being frontal.

Charles Hawthorne (“A Model for Fresh Thinking, ” LA Times, April 27,2008) writes enthusiastically about a new building by Rafael Viñoly at UCLA, UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) which achieves in a vertical manner what Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute in La Jolla achieve with a horizontal design. Viñoly is convinced that verticality tends to kill scientific collaboration, and miraculously managed to create a building that is three times as wide in the air as where it meets the ground, ensuring that the scientists working at CNSI will bump into one another just as they do at Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute.

4/29/08

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