writing
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entry 18.
in school, i’ve researched about an interesting architectural element: stairs. Here is the product of that research.
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entry 17.
While reading Italo Calvino’s Marcovaldo, or The Seasons in the City, one passage from “The City Lost in Snow” made me think more deeply about cities than perhaps any other: Marcovaldo learned to pile the snow into a compact little wall. If he went on making little walls like that, he could build some streets…
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entry 16.
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.
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.
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…
this is not. 