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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 20. – maps of worldbuilding 02
this entry is a continuation of entry 19 – maps of worldbuilding 01, if you haven’t checked yet, be sure to click the button: I’ve explored the importance of maps for worldbuilding and fiction, examining maps of our world (in Tolkien’s words, ‘the primary world’) created within past cultures and their technologies. Now, drawing further…
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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 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…
a bag of holding 