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Thursday, April 7, 2011

Haptic images. Juhani


How much more mysterious and inviting is the street of an old town with its alternating realms of darkness and light than are the brightly and evenly lit streets of today!

-Juhani Pallasmaa

Alvar Aalto

...embrace the "betweenness" of opposites.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Gio Caminada and the local "recipe"

Something that I've learned in studio was the ideology of building's construction typology within context... the "local recipe" as Gion Caminada put it.
I feel as though I'm missing this important component in the construction of my thesis at the moment... I need to  study the tectonic's of my architecture in this light.


"STRICKBAU" typology
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