Vincent Callebaut Architectures (via etoday)
Michal Libera, Katarzyna Krakowiak, “Making the walls quake as if they were dilating with the secret knowledge of great powers” (by BiennaleChannel)
It’s hermeneutics (The study of the methodological principles of interpretation, here, applied to zoning codes. -jm) — as if the spatial expansion of whole neighborhoods is really just a graph of certain words used in different contexts. As if vocabulary itself materializes, precipitating out as alternative spatial futures for the city. Indeed, the New York Times writes, “in (architect Robert) Scarano’s view, the city’s code was a Talmudic document, open to endless avenues of interpretation. Through a variety of arcane strategies, he could literally pull additional real estate out of the air.”
Doris Salcedo - The Istanbul Project: 1,600 Chairs (2003)
And nowhere to sit …
(Source: likeafieldmouse, via redefinemagazine)
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