worldbuilding
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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 24. – a farewell with a smile
i have been interested in secondary worlds, i have created some entries about this subject.in this entry, i want to talk about an intriguing secondary world, the glass bead game written by hermann hesse. but unfortunately, i am not going to be able to share the required details from the world to be informative about…
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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 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…
a bag of holding 