swamps

“the dream was composed like a tower of layers without end, rising upward and losing themselves in the infinite or layers coiling downward, losing themselves in the bowels of the earth. when it swooped me in its undulations, the spiralling began, and this spiral was a labyrinth. there was no vault and no bottom, no walls and no return. but there were themes repeating themselves with exactitude.”

 excerpt from smlxl, labyrinth, rem koolhaas

synagogue, dura-europos, syria, 244 ce_1
untitled works, alexander brodsky_2
insula of the menander, pompeii, preserved by eruption of mount vesuvius in 79 ad_3
diocletian’s palace, reference from the archive of adam caruso_4
ten courtyards, collective housing in bucharest, eduard untaru_5
monastery of saint catherine of siena, arequipa, perú, 16th 18th century_6
bank of england, john soane, london, 1734_7
sir john soane's museum, london, 1837_8
geoffrey bawa’s house, colombo, 1970_9
parr house, pezo von ellrichshausen, chile, 2008_10