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Magnus Larsson Quotes
Swedish
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Athlete
March 25, 1970
One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.
Magnus Larsson
World
Die
New
Free
Accumulate
Billion
Cement
Cyclical
Dune
Grains
Mountains
Rocks
Sand
Scale
Born
Break
Come
Each
Existence
Massive
May
Naturally
Process
Second
Some
Then
Those
If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.
Magnus Larsson
Life
You
Long
Home
Abandon
Border
Calculate
Desert
Away
Before
Carry
Close
Happen
How
Kids
Know
Live
Much
Pretty
Will
Your
Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
Magnus Larsson
Architecture
Wind
Way
Sand
Buildings
Ready-Made
Solid
Almost
Either
Hand
Like
Need
Our
Parts
Then
Us
We're stuck in the concrete age. Concrete has really become this ever-present material that's almost impossible to get away from. It's cheap, abundant, and easy to work with, and to an extent, that's good.
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Work
Good
Age
Impossible
Abundant
Cheap
Concrete
Extent
Stuck
Almost
Away
Become
Easy
Get
Material
Really
I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
Magnus Larsson
Water
Only
More
Find
Absurd
Concrete
Consume
Slightly
Than
The Only Thing
Thing
One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it's the one commonly grown and therefore exceptionally renewable building material that we have available to us. And it acts as storage for carbon dioxide.
Magnus Larsson
Start
Building
Us
Most
Acts
Carbon
Carbon Dioxide
Commonly
Concrete
Exceptionally
Obvious
Renewable
Storage
Timber
Available
Grown
Material
Rather
Reasons
Than
Therefore
Using
How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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Live
Desert
How
Within
The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
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Growth
Only
More
Thing
Capital
Faster
Even
Lack
The Only Thing
With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.
Magnus Larsson
Think
Grow
Right
Year
Financing
Right Kind
I Think
Kind
Per
Percent
Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and allow it to help us create. That, in a way is what the 'Dune' project is all about.
Magnus Larsson
Nature
Think
Way
Help
Dune
Harness
Mimic
Powers
Processes
About
Allow
Create
I Think
Itself
Just
Project
Rather
Than
Us
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Great
Green
Support
Plant
Desert
Initiative
Sahara
Structure
Trees
Across
Born
Create
Found
Idea
Out
Project
Wall
Wanted
Where
I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
Magnus Larsson
Architecture
Journalism
Old
Creative
Advertising
Publications
Stockholm
Also
Changed
Different
Director
Few
Many
Off
Started
Worked
Wrote
Years
Years Ago
In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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Sand
Made
Response
Wall
Threat
Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
Magnus Larsson
Human
Create
Activity
Spaces
Accommodate
Architects
Human Activity
Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
Magnus Larsson
Human
Create
Activity
Focused
Accommodate
Architects
Contemporary
Counterparts
Human Activity
Opposed
Spaces
Styling
Supporting
Many
Much
While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.
Magnus Larsson
Exercise
Social
Formal
Seduce
Designed
Dune
Ecological
Primarily
Cultural
While
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