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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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entry 06. – architecture as a mirror
Most war memorials speak in the language of victory.They glorify sacrifice, and in doing so, they often decrease the pain that war leaves behind. But architecture has the power to disrupt even the oldest rituals of remembrance. It can refuse to flatter. It can turn from symbol to wound, from declaration to silence. in maya…
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entry 05. – architecture as narrative
As a master of animation, Hayao Miyazaki has a huge impact on the way I think about worldbuilding, and the act of drawing, of giving form to thought and imagination. In this entry, I turn to one of his most celebrated works, Spirited Away.I try to step into its world and search for the logic…
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entry 04. – engawa
In most architecture, the threshold is a line of command:cross it, and you commit to being inside, to being out, to choosing a side. what happens when a threshold doesn’t separate but soften? //engawa “a strip of decking, often finished in wood or bamboo, that exist between the periphery of the Japanese house and the…
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entry 03. – zaira (invisible cities series, 01)
“The city does not tell its past, but contains it, like the lines of a hand.” When I first read Invisible Cities, “Zaira” from the “cities and the memory 3” left me in awe. It was not the most interesting, nor the most whimsical, but perhaps the most honest. a city is made not of…
a bag of holding 