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entry 15. – subjects of architecture
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 09. – species of spaces
in this entry, I want to talk about one of the books that made changes in how I approach architecture and the process of creating something. species of spaces by georges perec. I admire and try to follow his observation skills and his ambition toward taking notes and making lists of everyday life events or…
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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 01. – white house
Fredericks / White House, Jamberoo, New South Wales, Australia : 1981-82 / 2001-04
a bag of holding 