Uncanny Maps
Ian Hudley, Bierbergen Oedelum Black, quilted map (2006).
Marwan Rechmaoui, Beirut Caoutchouc, 2004.
Ryoji Suzuki.
Images
Mutual Support
What does your city smell, taste, sound, look, feel like?
Sensory Maps by Kate McLean:
Above – Smell: Aromas of Newport, Glasgow, and New York.
Above – Sight: Panoramic Fields.
Can the categorically dead ever make us feel our most alive?
Interior Ceiling View of La Sagrada Familia by Antonio Gaudi. Barcelona, Spain.
It is often the case that people fear the city.
Too constricted,
hazardous.
Walls closing in.
Sharp edges and flying debris.
Claustrophobia.
But what if all it takes,
to make the city friendly again,
is a little re-arrangement of architectural particles? Not a complete demolishment of the life we know: just the wiping away of unnatural friction
and accommodation around the living body of Nature.
Our bodies will blossom too.
The bamboo bridge in the Green Village Bali.
Atlantis Dubai’s underwater hotel
Source: ArchiExpo
The movements that exist within us are the signs with which we fill the spaces around us…
Museo Soumya by FR-EE, photo by Ken McCown.
The mood of our times, and our metaphysical condition, can be seen reflected back in, upon, and around the walls we populate.
What is the spirit we evoke today?
Synthesis: some beautiful images of interactive living and static bodies…
All Images Credited to: The Ballerina Project
When rock-solid architecture emulates ethereal movement – movement that exists in time and space, yet has regard for neither …that is sublime.
Pierres Vives by Zaha Hadid.
The Enignum Table by Joseph Walsh Studio
The Schüco Façade of Barcelona’s Torre Telefonica Headquarters by EMBA.
Angles Collide
The Ballerina Project (Alys).
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