architecture
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entry 22. – timeline of architecture / 20th century
I want to share another website that I made in school for an architecture history class. here, you can read why I made the website: This site was created for the final assignment of the History of Architecture IV course. The aim is to examine the architecture of the twentieth century in a chronological order…
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entry 21. – the timeless way of building*
*Alexander, Christopher. The Timeless Way of Building. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. I’ve been exploring connections between worldbuilding and architecture as a way to imagine what could be. Worldbuilding has developed particular ways of thinking about creation and emergence. I’m curious whether those ways of thinking could enrich architectural practice. To gain a perspective,…
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entry 18. – stairs
in school, i’ve researched about an interesting architectural element: stairs. Here is the product of that research.
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entry 17. – the city lost in snow
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
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…
a bag of holding 