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entry 19. – maps of worldbuilding 01
I’ve always been fascinated by fictional works, whether fantastical or not. Not just the final products, but how these fictional works come into being has always been in my field of interest. Worldbuilding captures my attention for this reason. I’m currently reading a book called Building Imaginary Worlds (wolf, 2012). I’ll continue examining some chapters…
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entry 18. – stairs
in school, i’ve researched about an interesting architectural element: stairs. Here is the product of that research.
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entry 17. – the city lost in snow
While reading Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo, or The Seasons in the City, one passage from “The City Lost in Snow” made me think more deeply about cities than perhaps any other: Marcovaldo learned to pile the snow into a compact little wall. If he went on making little walls like that, he could build some streets…
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entry 16. – flatland
Flatland begins with a square living in a two-dimensional plane who encounters a sphere from the three-dimensional world. As the sphere introduces him to the third dimension, the square meets a dimension that had never existed for him before. The book is not just an allegory about dimensions, but also powerfully discusses the prison of…
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entry 15. – subjects of architecture
While studying architecture, you are taught to start from the largest scale and work your way down: country, city, neighborhood, plot. A problem is identified or created, and you design a solution. But where does the human, the essential subject of architecture, remain in this framework? “The House of Small Cubes” is a short film…
a bag of holding 