roomthily

According to the artist Lars Ramberg, the understanding of doubt is very different in Germany than in Scandinavia and especially in Norway. If you in Norway say that you are a little bit in doubt you are saying that you have already moved over to the negative side, you have made up your mind and moved away from the motivation to do something. While in German it means that you are in the process and you haven’t made up your mind yet, you are in a state where you are able to make new decisions. “Zweifel” as it’s called in German is directly translated “to think twice” and is more like a 3 dimensional room which gets bigger the more you are in doubt and the more explore your doubt. This room is required for all types of creative, philosophical, emotional or religious processes.
… Absolutely, doubt is time, it is the space-time axis. This is why I think including doubt turns it into a 3 dimensional space, it is the z. This is why doubt and architecture is connected. To me a lot of the architecture today is very 2 dimensional and missing the z.

— Doubt as a Strategy (Conditions)

5 months ago

November 25, 2012

Stiltsville, FL -

The pastel buildings seem to hover above the greenish water; from a distance, they even appear to be boats. As you approach them, the stilt houses pass through a curious combination of stages, seemingly a mirage one minute, a child’s drawing of a house, all boxes and triangles, the next.

via The Atlantic (Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, Venue)

5 months ago

November 25, 2012

florida stiltsville not quite a micronation architecture

courtenaybird:

Old S.F. — An Interactive Map of 16,000 San Francisco Photos Since 1850

(via laughingsquid.com)

1 year ago

September 3, 2011

architecture black and white history photography sf vintage san francisco maps google maps

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your house (olafur eliasson) - artist book with a negative impression of his house in copenhagen (454 laser-cut pages)

via . of paper and things .

1 year ago

August 16, 2011

art books books lasercut architecture

archiveofaffinities:

Charles Jencks, Evolutionary Tree of Post-Modern Architecture, 1960-1980

“In any major movement there are various strands running concurrently which have to be distinguished because of differing values. Here the six main traditions of Post-Modernism show their common ground and differences and illustrate the fact that since the lats 1970s Post-Modern Classicism and urbanism have been unifying forces.”