crystal palace
day 3
andreea boldojar
i’ve always been interested in the bigger picture: i’ve always believed that we cannot have a conversation about a house, without referring to its city; we cannot have a conversation about a courtyard without referring to its house, we cannot have a conversation about the present places, without referring to their past. this way, we can avoid becoming aliens in our own places.
it’s a safety net towards a good way of seeing things.
moreover, i am mesmerized by the presence of the things themselves; a presence that can act somehow like a strong catalyst and can overturn an entire world: a strong column, a brick wall, a forum surrounded by its encapsulated spaces, a letter stuck in time.
we must know their presence, so that we can once again engrave the world with good new traces.
a city: a fragment of bucharest in 1789 drawn by andreea boldojar from her book courtyards of bucharest, the hidden potential of the urban morphology _1
a street in time: one of the boulevards of bucharest drawn by a.b. _2
urban islands in time: an inventory of urban blocks drawn by a.b. _3
a square in bucharest in time: the absence of st. sava church drawn by a.b. _4
a random quote: some of the architect dinu antonescu’s thoughts _5
a house and patio: évora expansion plan, quinta da malagueira, 1977, by alvaro siza _6
a forum : forum de pompéi - vers une architecture, le corbusier _7
a wall : villa adriana, rome - vers une architecture, le corbusier _8
some columns: casa del noce - vers une architecture, le corbusier _9
a letter: thoughts of louis kahn to richard wurman and eugene feldman _10