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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…
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entry 14. – heterotopias
a reading of foucault’s heterotopias foucault argues we haven’t learned to read space the way we’ve learned to read time and history. heterotopias are real places that contest all other real places. this is an attempt to understand how.* *all quotes from foucault, “of other spaces: utopias and heterotopias” (1967) 01. the epoch of spaceour…
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entry 12. – the amsterdam orphanage
Aldo van Eyck sought to rethink the relationships between spaces.Not as isolated forms, but as a connection of them. Spaces between spaces. I’ve previously explored his text “Steps towards a configurative discipline”. He thought that architects should try and design thresholds rather than forms. resist the urge to divide, and give shape to what lies…
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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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