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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 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 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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