Unless we understand architecture/design as a goal, shaping the environment as an act for itself, there is a need to look for content, for ideas, images, smells, desires transcend form.
Once found this contenu immateriel can become the goal that we try to achieve through shaping the physical environment.
At that point we stopped to be architects, or designers, or writers and we became humans in search of the simplest and deepest answers.

The Diary of Jakob Knulp ( and Knulp itself ) is a technique for keeping track of notes, words, impression that one day might become valuable content.

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