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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…
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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…
