culture is revealed through simple behviours of people to that of animals and to many many little things
it is a century-long totality
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prague and her charles bridge
a city with a unique atmosphere,
do we still care about tastes and emotions of a city in today's planning?
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Church of Solitude, 1974-77
Gaetano Pesce's Church of Solitude was conceived in reaction to his experience of New York in the 1970s, where he saw people living together, "helter-skelter in crowds." To provide a serene place for introspection and contemplation, he buried the church beneath a vacant lot amid the towers of the city. The silent sanctuary incorporated small individual cells, a further retreat from the city's corporate and institutional culture. An excavated landscape was, for Pesce, an overlooked space that could provide for people's future needs.
moma collection
moma collection
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education is being distorted, our core values are being invaded. i experienced almost the best few months within my education, but i could see the revolution: in a bad and narrow way. the teachers are no longer putting effort on the education itself and the students become slaves of projects and publication - personal and commercial achievement of teachers. the diversity is being reduced and the personality of the nordic pulse seems to be under the shadow.
maybe it will eventually become one of the thousands school which has been deteriorated into a condition that idealistic and proper architectural education no longer exist, but for the resources and fame, or one day they will realize what the school ought to be.
maybe it will eventually become one of the thousands school which has been deteriorated into a condition that idealistic and proper architectural education no longer exist, but for the resources and fame, or one day they will realize what the school ought to be.
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outhouse by sverre fehn
So you’ve just won the Pritzker Prize and the world’s your oyster. Those big juicy commissions are going to start coming in even faster, you might not even want/need to enter any competitions anymore since people will be asking for you by name now, and for that whole next year you’ll largely be considered the best in the business. That’s why it was very fun to learn that the first project Sverre Fehn worked on after this 1997 Pritzker win was the outhouse below. It’s on the far end of the parking lot connected to his brilliant Norwegian Glacier Museum. As the museum director told us, “I called him and said ‘Congratulations on winning the Pritzker. We need an outhouse. Can you do it?’”
by steve dalehovd
By Steve Delahoyd
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15年
傳說在那天上
在天際的深處有座美麗雷泊特
隱隱的飄浮雲中央
仍未揭露它真相
又未找到它方向
願望能有日向天空飛去
找出那探訪路向
探訪天際的家鄉
雲層裡是我家鄉
尋覓快樂溫馨的愛巢
心中的理想
在天空中有座城
有小野花飄香
在天空中有座城
鳥聲似歌柔揚
凝視我望向天上
在心裏輕輕唱
朦朧我像聽到了
家鄉的鳥兒在和唱
誰願意伴我一路
盡力找到它方向
願望能有日向天空飛去
找到我理想路向
Kevin Carter
i have been searching for this photo sometime as i couldn't remember the name of the photographer,
by chance i got it today from the news of Joao Silva losing his legs in Landmine.
the photographer Kevin Carter admitted few years later after publishing this photo that he didn't nothing to the little girl apart from releasing the shutter and he committed suicide soon after.
it's just a dilemma while you could take the picture and arouse the awareness of the entire world, or save the little kid from the eagle. either act could probably lead to an absolutely different life of kevin... but no one is possible to judge, as he literally changed the mind of the world.
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photography in practice
i believe this would be a very special practice in our architectural education
besides, each of us got a book from pavlina which will lead to our permanent memory on the course
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the second marathon review ended today.
the construction is coming through the investigation, or maybe it's more suitable to call it personal reflection from oneself. it's not about anything outside but within one's emotion and interpretation.
'if there is something you would really like to go for,
do it and we will all agree later'
this is a studio which does not only in search of place and construction,
but what you truly are.
so did the dialogue between the territory and ourselves begin?
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concrete fun
how fun it would be if we are able to work in a concrete factory, test on whatever we like and just have fun
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水琴窟a traditional instruments (or garden art) to appreciate nature in japanese way, through the echoing within the jar it gives out the amazing sound of water droplets. by seeing such an instruments, other traditions from japan came to my mind, and then i figured out every traditional pieces of art, architecture or culture in japan are so amazing that we just want to go there and observe, study or even learn from them. how could they transform every pieces of idea into such a fantastic history and integrate them into everyday life?
i didn't forget that a lot of them are originated from china, and of course the ancient china which was so clever, creative and powerful. while we spent a lot of years having war within ourselves and destroyed as much traditions as we could... the war did not only empty our traditions, but also our soul. we didn't care about our traditional attitude anymore as a man of the 'modern era'.
we are losing our uniqueness, even soon our varieties of language as well because of the ridiculous policies and attitudes. until a day that we are able to reconstruct our traditions and capture the spirit of the chinese history as a noble status in our everyday lives, we are not complete.
20101018
revitalization of central police station h&dm
not bad, though no detail design is revealed,
but it's anyway a lot better than the imitation of bamboo scaffolding!
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julian king
it's one of the finalist entry of the atlantic city memorial
yeah.. just because of this image, he's worth being selected
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image can never be able to tell the story of architecture, but fragments of compression, translating unlimited spatial atmosphere onto a paper without sound, smell, wind, texture, temperature.... anything else except the visual element.
it could however manage to convey an distilled idea of space in particular time and particular environment that would definitely lead you to another layer of space. and it must not be a lie.
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花樣年華 in the mood for love
這是個令所有香港人都懷念的年代，無論房間內的碎花牆紙、蘇麗珍所穿著的中國旗袍、以至冰室內的杯酒碟肉都顯露著港人的思英情緒… 那個時間意識極強的年代經典是無法抗拒的。
若果突破不到六十年代的極致情懷思想，我們便追不到2046的無限未來，要追求的一事一物豈能止於翻炒桌上的大紅燈罩？
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