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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 11. – zenobia (invisible cities series, 02)
“Now I shall tell of the city of Zenobia, which is wonderful in this fashion: though set on dry terrain it stands on high pilings, and the houses are of bamboo and zinc, with many platforms and balconies placed on stilts at various heights, crossing one another, linked by adders and hanging sidewalks, surmounted by…
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