Beyond expression
6 BEYOND EXPRESSION Lily Chi In the early 1990s, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) was commissioned to design a plan for doubling the size of the city…
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Earth or world? Aerial image and the prosthetic imagination
8 EARTH OR WORLD? Aerial image and the prosthetic imagination Lawrence Bird The image is one mode by which architecture appeals to us. The image has long been…
Flesh of stone: buildings, statues, entangled bodies
10 FLESH OF STONE Buildings, statues, entangled bodies Tracey Eve Winton Gods in Antiquity were bodily things. The Druids worshipped oaks; Egyptians worshipped animals; shapeless stones were venerated…
Voices of tranquillity: silence in art and architecture
13 VOICES OF TRANQUILITY Silence in art and architecture Juhani Pallasmaa Only in complete silence one starts to hear; only when language resigns, one starts to see.1 Carthusian…
Made in usage: architecture in Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel
5 MADE IN USAGE Architecture in Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel Caroline Dionne Man stands out [from other living beings] in both respects – in the construction of social practice,…