city
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entry 27. – on quality, 01
i’ve read the book called “zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance”. it was very intriguing to read, as it made me relate it to my environment and perspective. (spoilers ahead) i liked pirsig’s idea of making the book a chautauqua and a real-life documenting tool at the same time. it reminded me of my…
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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 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 10. – architecture as a breath
Steps towards a configurative discipline – I read this article written by aldo van eyck, published in forum in august 1962. here is an attempt to think again, draw again, dwell again. we cannot breathe one way, either in or out. most architecture is brutally splitting and favoring the other. inside or exterior, open or…
a bag of holding 