architecture
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entry 26. – ottavia (invisible cities series, 03)
“If you choose to believe me, good. Now I will tell how Octavia, the spider-web city, is made. There is a precipice between two steep mountains: the city is over the void, bound to the two crests with ropes and chains and catwalks. You walk on the little wooden ties, careful not to set your…
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entry 25. – speaking the city
Architecture, worldbuilding, and design process as a language, these are the three fields I keep returning to in this casebook. I might be wrong at times for trying, as not many architects relate to these three fields in particular. But I think it is important to bring them together by finding common things and even…
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entry 23. – on fairy stories*
*tolkien. Andrew Lang lectures at St. Andrews, 1938. In previous entries, I briefly mentioned primary and secondary worlds. In this entry, I will quote from Tolkien’s lecture “On Fairy Stories,” in which he develops these concepts. I will interpret them and attempt to establish their relationship to worldbuilding and architecture. faerie begins Allow me to begin…
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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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