LIVING ON 'AIR' - UPDATED WHENEVERPOUSSIERE LINGUISTIQUE
"Two houses, apparently separate, but linked (conjoined) below ground, communicating ... Three to three-and-one-half storey seaside villas sharing a common garden (ground) ... The roof tiles and the sea share the same pattern, color, and texture, changing in changeable weather, mimicking one another's mood (mind), similar in spirit to Proust's description of the steeple of the church at Combray, in Remembrance of Things Past."
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"And so, imagination uses and invents other fragments as visible components of the unity which it is trying to achieve." --Aldo Rossi
MUTATIS MUTANDIS - "Linguistic Dust" ("Poussière Linguistique") is the first in a series of projected illustrated texts (essays) circling the spectral (haunted) 'nature' of Landscape + Architecture, the always-already deferred synthesis of two secretly aligned disciplines (forming a classic chiasmus, two apparently divergent narrative lines that agree to meet at an unknown, future time and place) ... That is, L + A (+ This + That), a singular critical-poetical thing otherwise known as The Coming-Coming ... These 'futural' essays (essays-as-object) are designed to be inserted into an empty wine bottle, sealed, and thrown into the sea, buried in your garden, or placed on your bookshelf next to Massimo Cacciari’s Architecture and Nihilism and/or Posthumous People: Vienna at the Turning Point ...
Regarding Manfredo Tafuri and topological thought, cliquez ici ..."As long as the object of architecture is the architectural object, I object …" --Dr. Prof. Ing. I. M. Avenarius (2003)
