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entry 10. – architecture as a breath
Steps towards a configurative discipline – I read this article written by aldo van eyck, published in forum in august 1962. here is an attempt to think again, draw again, dwell again. we cannot breathe one way, either in or out. most architecture is brutally splitting and favoring the other. inside or exterior, open or…
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entry 09. – species of spaces
in this entry, I want to talk about one of the books that made changes in how I approach architecture and the process of creating something. species of spaces by georges perec. I admire and try to follow his observation skills and his ambition toward taking notes and making lists of everyday life events or…
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entry 08. – disco elysium
I want to introduce a game called disco elysium which I felt it did not lie to me even it was a fiction. gAME starts with a dead man hanging from a tree and ends with finding the murderer. but I don’t believe it’s about the murder at all. It’s about what remains after everything…
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entry 07. – amphitheatric dwelling
Aldo Rossi‘s idea of architecture is that it is a “scena fissa delle vicende dell’uomo” -or fixed stage of the events of the man, judges architecture as memory and rituals. but Aristide Antonas, the architect of the amphitheater house wrote an introduction to the idea of the empty platform in his text, Amphitheatric Dwelling .…
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entry 06. – architecture as a mirror
Most war memorials speak in the language of victory.They glorify sacrifice, and in doing so, they often decrease the pain that war leaves behind. But architecture has the power to disrupt even the oldest rituals of remembrance. It can refuse to flatter. It can turn from symbol to wound, from declaration to silence. in maya…
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