What should a house represent for a man? Architecture in the age of ephemera.

Diogenes of Sinope, in the third century before Christ, said that he had finally thrown even his cup away, after he had seen a child drinking water from his cupped hands. He owned nothing, and he lived in a large earthen jar, saying that he wanted to live as simply as a dog; therefore he was called a "cynic". But he was by no means a cynic in the way we mean today: he sought wisdom through the liberation from material desire; and he said that Prometheus was justly punished for giving man the skills to produce the complications and the artificiality of modern life, which burden us and distract us from our pursuit of wisdom. Be indifferent to the goods (material and immaterial) that chance might bestow on you, said Diogenes, and you will be free from fear. It's the way of the Tao (from an Oriental perspective), as James Altucher also says in the following excerpt from his newsletter. (Mr. Altucher is an American entrepreneur, investor, and immensely popular bl