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  • Writingplace journal new issues in print

    2021-01-07

    Happy 2021!

    Our latest issues, #3 Reading(s) and Writing(s). Unfolding `Processes of Transversal Writing and #4 Choices and Strategies of Spatial Imagination  are now also available in print!

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  • Envelope of Silver

    2020-04-03

    Envelope of Silver

     

    Envelopes  of silver, capturing and fusing purples, pinks and yellows

    When at dusk

    The building changes appearance

    Than is shows

    dancing along with the street

    lights are reflected, people are multiplied

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  • New Issue: Reading(s) and Writing(s). Unfolding Processes of Transversal Writing

    2020-02-06

    This issue of Writingplace Journal, Reading(s) and Writing(s), focuses on the complex process of writing itself, and in particular on the question of reading and responding to texts. By presenting not only resulting texts, but also readings of works in process integrated with the discussions that unfold, the issue reveals complex modes of writing that move between the scholarly and the fictional. 

    Edited by Catharina Gabrielsson, Hélène Frichot, Klaske Havik, Marko Jobst

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  • Issue#04: Choices and Strategies of Spatial Imagination

    2019-12-05

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  • Writingplace journal issue#3 in preparation...

    2019-06-17

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  • Marks - A Leporello for the Binckhorst forgotten monuments

    2019-06-13

    Marks

    A Leporello for the Binckhorst forgotten monuments

     

    We wandered looking for the stories first unseen to the naked eye. We looked for marks that proved the autochthonous inhabitant of Binckhorst, and the ruins that are the trace of an industrial past shifting to a service based and housing area. Our monuments are rather unconventional, Mac and Donna, The Angry Lady, Crossfit Ninjas, they are examples of the stories that, after widening our perspective on the area and being sensible to it, we discovered.

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  • From edge to edge of

    2019-05-29

    Falling in

    love with

    walls, gates,

    steep

    streets

    as

    a

    mild

    compen-

    sation

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  • thieves

    2019-05-29

    this is our stretch gingerly chosen

    it works for each all and what we do

    Gancho's kids run the margin

    'tween walkway and bus lane

    snatch a purse phone necklace

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  • The BINCKIES

    2019-05-29

    While researching the Binckhorst area in Den Haag for the master 1 studio of Methods&Analysis, a literary/narrative excursive helped to get a better understanding of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. 

    The result is a local newspaper which articulates a future perspective after the redevelopment of the area.

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  • Sand and Stone

    2019-03-31

    ... these places have emerged

    from sand and stone 

     

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  • (Un)Fair Cities. Equity, Ideology and Utopia in Urban Texts

    2019-03-05

    We received the following call for papers from our colleagues of the Association for Literary Urban Studies / Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies:

    (Un)Fair Cities. Equity, Ideology and Utopia in Urban Texts

    University of Limerick, 12-13 December 2019

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  • Call for Papers: Phenomenographies

    2019-03-01

    We received the following call for papers:

    “Phenomenographies. Describing urban and architectural atmospheres” of the Ambiances Journal. The issue is coordinated by Mikkel Bille, Federico De Matteis, Tonino Griffero and Andrea Jelić

    The deadline for the submission of full papers is 14 April 2019.

     

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  • Manifesta 2018

    2019-02-13
    There was a screening in an enfeebled ideal suburb,
    Just outside Palermo’s city center
    ZEN, designed by Gregotti, seemed to hoover, as huge, yellow concrete masses, 
    and at the same time looked dragged down to societal reality.
    Dreams for new places, of which the inhabitants made different 
    stories than Gregotti envisioned. 
     
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  • COST network Writing Urban Places

    2019-01-07

     

    Our proposal Writing Urban Places. New Narratives of the European City has been accepted by the European network grant COST. We are much looking forward to collaborate with our international colleagues on this four-year research project, of which you will find a summary below. 

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  • Line poem

    2018-11-12

    By Jacob Voorthuis

    Place a placeless point

    where you might be

    and another on that tree;

    Measure and trace the movement

    of the line

    throughout a single day.

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  • Venice Biennale

    2018-10-30

    Venice Biennale 

     

     

    The city is floating:
    ever more dense
    more and more
    people are entering. 
    The city shivers.

     

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  • New Issue Release

    2018-10-30

    Last Tuesday, October 23rd,  we gathered to celebrate the first two issues of the Writingplace Journal. The afternoon offers a series of  inspiring talks, both about the trajectory of the Writingplace project at large, and about the content of the journal issue. 

     

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  • The Magic of Imagination

    2018-10-18

    October 2018

     

    Imagination can take us to unthinkable places and face a whole world that could only be dreamt of. It can take us to a city under the sea in the midst of chaos or to a tyrannical and savage empire over the clouds, in which the slaughtered are thrown from the heights above, just to fall into the ocean to a city in the midst of chaos.

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  • Writingplace journal presentation

    2018-10-18

    October 2018

     

    We are happy to announce the presentation of the first two issues of the Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature. soon in Delft:

    October 23, 2018 Berlage room 1, 15.30-18.00 
    Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft
    Julianalaan 134
    2628 BL Delft
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  • how to capture

    2018-10-18

    October 2018

     

    how to shape

    boiling rice vapor

    petrichor

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  • an architecture that blooms forlorn

    2018-10-18

    August 2018

     

    an architecture that means no good

    indifferent to beauty and comfort

    hopeless

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  • PROSPECT COTTAGE*

    2018-10-18

    July 2018

     

    THE GARDEN & THE BOTANIST

    BOTANY

    ‘Botany, branch of biology that deals with the study of plants, including their structure, properties, and biochemical processes. Also included are plant classification and the study of plant diseases and of interactions with the environment.’1

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  • Through the skin of an ink

    2018-10-18

    June 2018

     

     

    I effuse into the

    voice of your breath,

    not only in words,

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  • kites

    2018-10-18

    May 2018

     

    The sound of the gale woke them up

    before dawn

    warm bunk beds behind they tiptoed through the darkness

    across the hallway downstairs through the kitchen of the old, old house

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  • a snake

    2018-10-18

    March 2018

     

    I saw the small boy sitting on the ground outside

    next to the porch of the old, old house

    he was playing with a twig

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  • Readings: Aalto and Salmona

    2018-10-18

    January 2018

    Presenting a double reading of architectural spaces, this article aims to bring together works of the architects Alvar Aalto and Rogelio Salmona and identify some shared themes in their architectural approaches.

     

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  • the poet and the architect

    2018-10-18

    December 2017

     

     

    is the poet closer

    to understanding place

    than the architect?

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  • 'Purification' of Desire

    2018-10-18

    December 2017

     

     

    (Canción del Adiós 1)

     

    A mist built by artificial fireflies

    is unwinding

    around his fragile presence,

    as an embodied quivering

    near an unreachably free Seagull 2,

    first – in flights aerial,

    second – in hoverings embraced.

     

     

     

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  • many rooms, 10

    2018-10-18

    November 2017

     

     

    These rooms I’ve been describing are mostly bedrooms; meaning rooms where a bed is used to sleep, or “slaapkamers”, as they’re called here.

     

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  • Ciudad Abierta _ in that it speaks...

    2018-10-18

    November 2017

     

     

     

    I

    in that it speaks

    it tells of time

    of its founding fathers

    of the builders, with words and stones

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  • COSMICOMICS*

    2018-10-18

    November 2017

     

    “I couldn’t say I’ll make it the same or I’ll make it different, there were no things to copy, nobody knew what a line was, straight or curved, or even a dot, or a protuberance or a cavity.

     

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  • Ciudad Abierta, Valparaiso

    2018-10-18

    November 2017

     

     

     

    I

    there are hardly any streets

    - paved, with houses

    on each side -

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  • Thinking the Elsewhere: [a fragile order-creating curtain between the architect and the Place]

    2018-10-18

    October 2017

     

     

    Sometimes, the fragmented flow of the narrative comes to a limit of vulgar sincerity. The overlapping of thematically heterogenous windows reflects mutual permeation and influence of the design problems. The porous depth of their materiality is most visible through the closeperception of its (locally) organic appearance.

     

     

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  • in collaboration with

    2018-10-18

    October 2017

    when fire turns to stone
    and streams stutter

     

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  • many rooms, 9

    2018-10-18

    October 2017

     

    Mr. Quiñónez came in first thing in the morning, carrying a small plastic bucket, a sturdy broom, and a small shovel. Slowly, he swept the concrete slab with short, sharp strokes, uniformly directed towards a specific point on the slab.

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  • A Spiral Promenade

    2018-10-18

    October 2017

    - embracing and enfolding

    a Balance

    between

    a novelty and

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  • many rooms, 8

    2018-10-18

    September 2017

     

     

    The image of this room is quite foggy in my mind, perhaps because I was mostly sad there.

    We’d moved from what was supposed to be our dream home, to this much smaller, very cramped flat. Life had suddenly shrunk to a tiny room, which I had to share with my sister.

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  • Stone Heads

    2018-10-18

    August 2017

     

    standing still in water

    in their frame of basalt from former times:

    the poles, like gentlemen turned into stone

     

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  • many rooms, 7

    2018-10-18

    June 2017

     

    an infinitesimal

    almost capillary fissure

    on the thinnest layer of coating

    has stared back at me

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  • shadow of light

    2018-10-18

    May 2017

    light entered through the coloured holes
    blue and green and purple patches
    of time, turning around the tower

     

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  • The dune, or, Cathedrals of the Mind

    2018-10-18

    May 2017

     

    1. Car

    Wet cobbles, the shuddering car creates weird noises, might want to slow down a little.

    Drizzle on the windscreen

    Can’t see a thing,

    the rhythm of the wipers connects to the song on the radio.

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  • Elio, or the house of time and space

    2018-10-18

    May 2017

     

     

    Elio was a man made of time and space, that is light, as everybody knows.
    He lived alone in a circular house, he had a room for each day of the year, each one with a dawn door to enter in the morning and a dusk one to retire at night.

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  • the City’s Image by its Elements | Monologues by Teusaquillo

    2018-10-16

    April 2017

     

    Landmark/Statue

    I am Admiral Jose Prudencio Padilla Lopez, leader of the Colombian fleet, liberator of Santa Marta and Cartagena, scourge of the Spanish admiralty.

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  • treetops, trembling

    2018-10-16

    April 2017

     

     

    In Ljubograd,

    built most perturbedly

    is the love among the birds.

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  • many rooms, 6

    2018-10-16

    April 2017

    From the threshold, I could see the cleanliness of the terrazzo floor, made with irregular cuts of marble of different sizes and colors, no bigger than the palm of my hands; cast in place with a mix of white cement and smaller granite pebbles, and polished to a glossy shine.

     

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  • Maurits' tenants

    2018-10-16

    April 2017

    Mr. F woke up one morning like many others. It may have been Sunday, but then again, Mr. F is not one that makes a difference between work days and weekends, he’s a lucky one. Lets assume though that it was Sunday, for the sake of all the other fellows who abide to the seven day week.

     

     

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  • Four Places in Bogotá (4/4): Centro de Memoria, Paz y Reconciliación

    2018-10-16

    April 2017

     

    Man, myth and material meet in four places in Bogotá.
    A series of four poems.

    ~

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  • Four Walls

    2018-10-16

    April 2017

    A wall to the east
    to catch the new sun
    through the jagged peaks.

     

     

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  • Towards a Geography of European Fiction

    2018-10-16

    March 2017

    Europe offers an abundance of fictionalised landscapes and cities. The growing research area of literary geography and literary cartography aims at visibly rendering such complex overlays of real and fictional geographies.

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  • Four Places in Bogotá (3/4): Universidad Nacional

    2018-10-16

    March 2017

     

     

    Man, myth and material meet in four places in Bogotá.
    A series of four poems.

     

    ~

     

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  • Four Places in Bogotá (2/4): Plaza Bolivar

    2018-10-16

    March 2017

     

    Man, myth and material meet in four places in Bogotá.
    A series of four poems.

     

    ~

     

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  • Reveries or on designing with words

    2018-10-16

    March 2017

    To dream a world of words
    and words that are worlds.
    To play with memory and feelings,
    the mind’s hand searching,
    feeling, grasping; scraping.

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  • JEWELLERY PERSPECTIVES

    2018-10-16

    March 2017

     

     

    ‘I became very interested in the paradigm of science, where you affirm something
    and want to prove it, and your only chance is to provide your listeners with the tools
    of your research so that they can verify your hypothesis.’ 1

     

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  • arrival, somewhere

    2018-10-16

    March 2017

     

    where does one reside when

    floating above trees or seas from place

    to place, arriving in a silent night, exchanging,

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  • Four Places in Bogotá (1/4)

    2018-10-16

    February 2017

     

    Man, myth and material meet in four places in Bogotá.
    A series of four poems.

    ~

    CEMENTERIO CENTRAL

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  • theme: rooms

    2018-10-16

    February 2017

     

    Georges Perec wrote:

    "What does it mean, to live in a room? Is to live in a place to take possession of it? What does taking possession of a place mean?

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  • many rooms, 5

    2018-10-16

    February 2017

     

    Cramped and literally full of nooks and crannies.

    Not a clean floor plan for sure.

    Instead a convoluted set of little additions subtractions protrusions cuts.

     

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  • Degraded travelogue

    2018-10-16

    February 2017

     

     

    I hear the groanings of a warm mountain scent,

    -solar flares casted through celestial pillars;

    the windows, filled with forest, birds and clouds

    are flowing under the wound,

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  • Lighthouse, A house with a beacon

    2018-10-16

    January 2017

     

    Long before satellite navigation, GPS and sonar techniques, our brave sailors relied on a network of light signals, warning them for shallow waters, unexpected cliffs or harbour entries. The duty of maintaining and keeping up these light sources was a difficult and respected job that went hand in hand with the latest engineering techniques of the previous 23 centuries.

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  • Interpreting Atmosphere: Kettle House

    2018-10-16

    January 2017

     

    The Wounded Pot

     

    A belly a wounded pot

    Perforated

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  • Interpreting Atmosphere: the Red Stairs

    2018-10-16

    January 2017

    I stand in a well, an opening in the solid linearity of the rest. I reach up.

    My strong core of four pillars glows from within, while I am suspended in a constant

    balancing act – holding platform after platform joint by steps (how many little steps?)

     

     

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  • many rooms, 4

    2018-10-16

    January 2017

     

    Even before entering the flat, one could have a glimpse of the room where I fell in love with books form the hallway, where two old blue Schindler elevators and the stairs of the building landed. Facing this hallway, and the narrow patio it overlooked, was the room’s window, with its gorgeous glass louvers, in the style of the 1950s.

     

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  • Villa Andersen

    2018-10-16

     

     

     

    January 2017

     

    They used to make fun of me, standing in this awkward corner of the plot, neglecting the alignment of all the other houses.

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  • Interpreting Atmosphere: Attic

    2018-10-16

    December 2016

     

     

    Grumpy old attic

    It’s cold, dark and lonely up here
    That’s how I like it
    I see your kind

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  • many rooms, 3

    2018-10-16

    December 2016

    where I faced death

    “My Father’s house has many rooms...”

    - John, 14:2

     

    Above the room where I faced death was a high, pitched gable roof, built with rustic wooden beams and trusses, covered with slightly overlapping asbestos-cement # 6 Eternit corrugated sheets, hooked with a few steel, mostly corroded clamps.

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  • in a world of rooms to meet

    2018-10-16

    November 2016

     

    in a world of rooms to meet
    we meet and we pass by
    lives hardly touch but coincide
    we then remain in signs

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  • many rooms, 2

    2018-10-16

    October 2016

     

    The room where everything fell apart had a semi-circular floor plan, pivoting around a spiral staircase, outside.

    The stair landing paved with grey linoleum gave way to a broad threshold, with two white wooden doors, each with a rectangular moulding with concave curved corners.

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  • many rooms, 1

    2018-10-16

    October 2016

     

    The room where I was truly happy made a sharp corner, on a Flatiron-ish second floor. One entered facing the corner, through a deep threshold, between built-in closets, with dark brown triplex doors and detailed glass applications on their upper halves.

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  • From above

    2018-10-16

    September 2016

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    floating above clouds between two lands, from the open and ambiguous, back to the organised and ordered.

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  • arch

    2018-10-16

    June 2016

     

    upon losing center I have noticed

    that the effort which keeps a world in place

    also threatens to bring it down

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  • views at a library

    2018-10-16

    June 2016

     

    Take 1. Saturday, around noon. After heavy rain.
    Character: Heka, Jack Russell, 2 years old
    Heka gets out of the car and takes the first hill as a crazy rocket, not minding the wet grass streaking her belly. Immediately, she disappears out of sight.

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  • Investigation

    2018-10-15

    May 2016

     

     

    Evidence: Inventory of Evidence Collected at the Crime Scene

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  • Observation

    2018-10-15

    April 2016

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    up north, in Jutland

    daylight strengthens

     

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  • Graphic Novels / Novel Architecture

    2018-10-15

    March 2016

     

    Kent State University College of Architecture & Environmental Design (CAED) has organized theGraphic Novels / Novel Architecturesymposium to explore constructive and projective relationships between architecture and comics. 

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  • with or without

    2018-10-15

    March 2016

     

     

    The House of Books series indeed ignites a whole series of reference projects: houses of books, houses for books, small libraries, installations and pavilions literally or metaphorically building upon the knowledge constructed in books.

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  • Parthenon of Books

    2018-10-15

    March 2016

     

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    In the years that followed the 1974 Revolution in Portugal, the country received several political refugees from Chile and Argentina.

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  • House of Book II

    2018-10-15

    March 2016

    If I were to build a house where we would meet, my reader, it should probably be a house of books, of meeting thoughts. On the ground floor: books for daily use, to talk, to find common ground. Architecture books, some older heroes, some brave new worlds,...

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  • (to) shadow

    2018-10-15

    February 2016

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    Two joints articulate the division of the Andes, as it moves northward across the Putumayo basin. The “knots” of Pastos and Almaguer, disentangle the thick thread that comes all the way from Tierra del Fuego into three distinct claws, obviously named Western, Central and Eastern cordilleras.

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  •  Populus Tremula

    2018-10-15

    February 2016

     

    Populus Tremula_sketch

    When a silent speck of dust of yours
    passes next to my soul,
    like ink
    I overflow inside me,

     

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  • Harbor

    2018-10-15

    January 2016

     

    a harbor is a place to depart from
    the restless mind
    finds an anchor point
    in water, wind and expectation

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  • BEAUTY AND SADNESS.

    2018-10-15

    January 2016

     

     

    I will talk to you about BEAUTY AND SADNESS.

     

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  • some cities

    2018-10-15

    December 2015

     

    Caracas, 1578

    some cities were founded by chance

    comfortably reclined against an old meander

    a protective hill, a vantage point

     

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  • the margins

    2018-10-15

    December 2015

    linnahall014

     

    One of the harbor cities in Europe in a constant process of transformation is Tallinn, Estonia. Simultaneously front and backside, the coastal area north of Tallinn city centre is an ambiguous place.

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  • Lozenge, contributed by Viktorija Bogdanova

    2018-10-15

    November 2015

     

    How silently hollow are

    the bricks that flow through lonely walls,

    like a stony droplet over eyelashes,

     

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  • linger

    2018-10-15

     

    October 2015

     

     

    again I leave

    the land between our lands

    the city where our story lingers

     

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  • A Fractal Tectonic In the Work of Sigurd Lewerentz

    2018-10-15

    October 2015

    Stockholm is fractal. Those who live there inhabit smaller and smaller islands, with an increasingly ambiguous relationship to water, before they scatter out, like the pollen resting on the waters surface into the fractal dust that is the archipelago.

     

     

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  • Coast

    2018-10-15

    September 2015

     

    After so many sketches, there is one that remains. Made almost two decades ago, the connection that very sketch has set in motion is still vital. An elastic connection with that land of rocks and water, of trees and human, architectural gestures.

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  • battens

    2018-10-15

    August 2015

     

     

    how they entangle, intertwine

    with one another

    with the space they occupy

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  • Hidden

    2018-10-15

    August 2015

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    Hidden….,
    Out of sight , out of mind. I find you
    crawling your way up

     

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  • sketch: Jørn Utzon's platforms and plateaus

    2018-10-15

    July 2015

     

    platforms-and-plateaus-utzon

    Testing the limits of the obvious

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  • ON THE ROCK, BY THE SEA, ALONG THE SHORE

    2018-10-15

     

    July 2015

    lofoten 2

     

    PROPOSAL FOR A MARITIME MUSEUM, NORWAY.

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  • Mute Maps

    2018-10-15

    July 2015

     

    (Novara, MapaMudo by Luis Carmelo)

    The cities drawn by Luis Carmelo, a Portuguese writer with several books published and founder of the online creative writing school EC.ON, began by being a humble mode to reinvent his own pace.

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  • meditation

    2018-10-15

    June 2015

     

    it could have been the blank, mute wall

    faced for hours

    revealing a simple truth

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  • lessons

    2018-10-15

    June 2015

     

     

    Only in pain

    Have I noticed

    How irregular is the floor

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  • Gathering

    2018-10-15

    June 2015

    We gathered in a restaurant I remembered, in a town where I had lived. Its windows facing a small canal, on its side a quiet alley. We sat around a wooden table in the back of the room, on what seemed to be a former church bench. Some paintings of Venice -where some of us had been, last year- on the walls.

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  • Wunderkammer, dwelling within a collection

    2018-10-15

    May 2015

     

    At the department of Wohnbau at the RWTH-faculty of Architecture, we design more than just houses, we particularly focus on the study of dwelling. We see dwelling as a verb, an action that is influenced by culture and forms the basis of house form and architectural expression.

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  • A House of Dovecotes - Mariel Kaiser Crompton

    2018-10-15

    May 2015

    971B9020

    In her grand english townhouse, Jane Darwell found a pigeon timer and “A Book of Dovecotes” by A.O.Cooke. These heirlooms of her grandmother created a fantastic dreamworld in her mind,  a forgotten world, in which pigeon breeding has been existing for thousands of years and is still remaining active in pigeon racing events today.

     

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  • A walk through the hat factory - Janina Ernst

    2018-10-15

    May 2015

    I heard about that place from a friend, a place from which one apparently leaves happier and more beautiful. She gave me a business card, written in an old font with only a phone number, no name, nor address. Today nobody would make their business cards look like this anymore. Everything about it seemed to come from an old forgotten time. Yet it made me curious.

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  • It Had Something to do With the Telling of Time

    2018-10-15

    April 2015

     

    I am no longer sitting in the living room. I am in a place I have been, but never tread.

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  • groninger haiku

    2018-10-15

    April 2015

    DSCN0462

     

    1.

    low, low horizon

    why do you challenge my soul?

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  • Memory of a future

    2018-10-15

    March 2015

    jvo drawing

     

    Sometimes, when encountering a piece of architecture, we recognize it, not because we have seen it before but because it suits us, personally.

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  • the ornate function, or poetic purpose

    2018-10-15

    February 2015

     

    1.

    The symposium Against the Grain[1], organized by Bureau Europa in collaboration with the faculty of architecture at the RWTH Aachen, opened a space for the reassessment of a crucial question: “Is narrative architecture still relevant to the current condition?”[2]

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  • Retrospect

    2018-10-15

    February 2015

     

    The long corridor with all the doors. The floor was slippery. You could slide a long way. North and south. The afternoon sun and the leaning tower. The evening sun and the treetops. Behind every door another home. Another bed, another closet, another desk. But yet the same every time. My home is red, your home is blue, but together we paint our home yellow.

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  • Markuskyrkan

    2018-10-15

    February 2015

    markuskyrkan_photo by oriol casas

    Trees crowned yellow and red

    The air bright with damp leaves

    A dry pond, with water all around

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  • Nuqui

    2018-10-15

    February 2015

     

    We watch the school parade from the balcony.

    Even in broad daylight, kids march holding broomsticks crowned by colourful paper lamps. We’ve seen these lamps lit at night, and heard the oldest boys raising havoc since dawn.

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  • Viipuri library, Alvar Aalto

    2018-10-15

    January 2015

    library staircase 1998

     

    Recently, the renovation of Alvar Aalto's libraryin Viipuri (now Vyborg, Russia) has been completed. When I visited the building in 1998, it was in serious state of decay. Below, my impressions of that encounter in words and photos.

     

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  • measure

    2018-10-15

    January 2015

    5 years ago

    my life weighed 26 kilograms

    and fit the 50 x 34 x 81 centimeters of a suitcase

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  • trinity

    2018-10-15

    November 2014DSCF4821

     

    At some point, the strongest figures simply start mutating in front of the careful observer, becoming each other, mindless of where they stand.

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  • Mare, by Laurien Korst

    2018-10-15

    October 2014

    seasons_photo by remco van schadewijk

     

    The city is a field of narratives. Like in a narrative, the city exists through movement; the unfolding of events. Related ephemeral themes as transience and temporality are not properly captured by the formalistic and visual preoccupation of our profession (Havik, 2012). Therefore it is relevant to research the dynamic qualities of the narrative in relation to the intrinsic dynamics of urban life.

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  • ever the same edges

    2018-10-15

    October 2014

    between land and water
    between dancing and falling
    between dream and thought
    between now and later and then

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  • Book-review: "S", Doug Dorst / J.J. Abrams

    2018-10-15

    September 2014

    S logoometimes you come across a story that is deceiving and confusing, but does it in a convincing and attractive way. „S.” is such a book.

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  • berlin

    2018-10-15

    September 2014

     

    the (slimy) skin of the eyes

    grows thicker

    with time

    scar tissue

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  • Why Read the Classics?

    2018-10-15

    September 2014

     

    The classics are the books that come down to us bearing the traces of readings previous to ours, and bringing in their wake the traces they themselves have left on the culture or cultures they have passed through.

     

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  • chapel for nature

    2018-10-15

    July 2014

    DSCF3339

     

    hidden in the forest

    made or found

    the space of filtered light

    the rhythmic sound of hammers

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  • ether

    2018-10-15

    June 2014

    (Nothing but) Flowers...

    - the Talking Heads

     

    Bizarre is to lose shape.

    For reasons irrelevant, form  sometimes (simply) disappears.

    Not that I don't recall or mind the differences that exist between places; no!

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  • this city breathes

    2018-10-15

    June 2014

    DSCF2931

     

    this city breathes. its alleys open to hidden squares, the sharpened sunlit houses, a water surface, a passage, then, enclosed again. light penetrates in courtyards and casts moving water patterns on a wall. half open doors invite me in and from a corridor a window leads to water.

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  • flour factory

    2018-10-15

    May 2014

    IMG_2089

    behind that rusty door, small steps lead to an open space where light enters through broken windows full of dust.

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  • the house of fictile time - Gabriel García Márquez

    2018-10-15

    April 2014

    Sometimes, I wander through these houses, hide from heath between their thick walls, sit barefoot at their verandas and let time disappear. Generations of characters pass by; one comes to sit next to me and tells a life-story, another is only noticeable in the movements of banana leaves and a hint of melancholy.

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  • Worshipping colour

    2018-10-15

    April 2014

    CaoDai1

    The heat of the sun is nearly audible. My shadow disappeared.

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  • Beginnings

    2018-10-12

    March 2017

     

    For every new beginning something has to end
    A tree sheds its dead leaves,
    becoming nutrition for new life.

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  • Seed

    2018-10-12

    March 2014

     

    i plant my tree

    not on the slope

     

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  • dialects of grey*

    2018-10-12

    March 2014

    REFORM

     

    behind the blueish/green scaffolding screen

    an exchange unfolds

    within a variation on a theme

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  • bliss

    2018-10-12

    February 2014

    Castilla

     

    Their first work was white, mostly; a series of small apartment buildings crowned by raw ceramic roof-tiles and grey crushed granite chips, plastered under the window sills as accents for the facades (rendered with a rugged, extremely abrasive finishing known as “pearl-ite”).

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  • pink to gold

    2018-10-12

    February 2014

     

    rabbit eyes, you have – all pink

    what’ve you been doing?

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  • Reading the city in colours

    2018-10-12

    February 2014

    She stood on the threshold of a discovery. The concrete floor of her house was littered with A2-sized tissue paper, 62 times the same drawing, but different, the colours blurring into each other in water.

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  • Nine

    2018-10-11

    January 2014

     

    Nine

     

    Nine
    So many doors
    For such a small house

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  • Delft. impressions of a gathering

    2018-10-11

    January 2014

     

    Jane Anderson wrote a poem about her impressions of the Writingplace conference. She presented her paper  "Fabrication of the Story Museum" with Colin Priest in the Rescription Session, November 26.

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  • shutting up

    2018-10-11

    January 2014

     

    after the intensity of the (always partial) end

    after anxiety, akin to emptiness

    after frustration, after fear

    after doubt and hungry, hungry nothingness

    comes a sense of stupor

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  • house of memory

    2018-10-11

    December 2013

     

    imagine a house
    where a woman has been

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  • leaving (in a house)

    2018-10-11

    November 2013

    "Hadst thou stayed, I must have fled"
    That is what the Vision said.

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  • the immense and the intimate

    2018-10-11

    October 2013

     

    This is not a small house. It is only so because here, the immense presence of the landscape makes the house an intimate place. As Bachelard stated, "intimate space and exterior space keep encouraging each other, as it were, in their growth".

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  • House of Books

    2018-10-11

    October 2013

    house of books

    She builds houses with books, my girl, she cannot yet read but she knows the constructive power of stories.

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  • one and three houses

    2018-10-11

    October 2013

     

    Following our monthly topic, a recommendation; a literary triptych, to be enjoyed and learned from, on the topic of the house. Read together, as a single, big book, these three approaches provide a beautifully complex vision of the house.

     

     

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  • small and perfect houses

    2018-10-11

    September 2013

    "What shall we do, with all this useless beauty..."

    - Elvis Costello

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  • the poetic alphabet

    2018-10-11

    August 2013

     KOREA-6

    the buildings act as frameworks

    to keep commercial signs upright

    they become invisible

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  • rhythm

    2018-10-11

    August 2013

     91_12_leiviska_havik6

     

    it climbs, this light, it sings

    as if I follow, sitting in a train

    the rhythm of passing ditches,

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  • closing the door

    2018-10-11

    August 2013

    Lutry, Switzerland (2011) - photo by J.M.

     

    because the house was here, forever
    somebody said they’d built it

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  • Conference

    2018-10-11

    July 2013

     

    brubeck_lg

    “Think of (architecture) not as a set of forms but – and this is not to diminish architecture’s engagement with the world, or its status as a material practice – rather as a professional conference. It has a large and fluid constituency of professionals joined by interested outside visitors, such as artists, philosophers, and scientists.

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  • Dialogue

    2018-10-11

    July 2013

     

    F: We are old.
    H: What are you saying?
    F: We are old. After all we have been through, we are still here. But why? Why are we here? Nobody is listening.

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  • he myself

    2018-10-11

    May 2013

    memorial

     

    he myself

    „If freedom you defend, honor or restrict, within yourself you shall find“

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  • on the roof

    2018-10-11

    June 2013

    tallinn roof

     

    They laugh, talk, drink, smoke, looking at the slowly darkening sky over Tallinn at midnight. Young architects, graduated today, looking at the city in which they will operate: intervening, restoring, inventing, revealing old structures and new potential.

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  • forgotten moment

    2018-10-11

     May 2013

     

    someone has been here
    a note on his desk
    he has just left
    us in reflection

    plants as silent bodies
    slender, round
    they saw it all

    lissabon 2009hortus botanicus Lisboa

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  • into the deep

    2018-10-11

    May 2013

    into the depth of waters

    into the depth of times

    in ancient times they went here

    under this ceiling

    bathing in the dimmed light

    paardrijden can jouArab Baths, Girona.
    photo kh 2012

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  • reflection: kaleidoscope

    2018-10-11

    May 2013

    DSC01067

    As some of the smartest allegories known to man,  a gorgeous three legged description of power comes from the East.

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  • Genova: city as mirror

    2018-10-11

    May 2013

    ...I want to be part of this world. When I woke up, I heard how the city started to pulverize the day between her centuries-old rotten teeth.  At several places in the neighborhood, holes were being drilled. Neighbors screamed at each other through the open windows. In the writings on the wall of the Palazzo across my bedroom I read that no smile can be deciphered. ... I want

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  • (in)visible: Blindness or an essay on the (innocent) eye….

    2018-10-11

    May 2013

    (In)visibility  can be taken onby many outlooks, but as Portuguese architects, intending to encapsulate architecture and literature, we eventually linked our José Saramago and the living experience in a particular space, though invisible, but certainly not blank.

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  • Newspaper + blackout = poetry

    2018-10-11

    April 2013

    Instead of starting with a blank page, why not start with page full of words and black out all the words you don’t need? Poet Austin Kleon creates edgy poetry with a newspaper and a permanent marker.

     

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  • Story made of gaps

    2018-10-11

    April 2013

    Tree of Codesis an exceptional book. The pages are full of holes, with occasional words here and there, fragmented and scattered.

     

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  • on the move

    2018-10-11

    April 2013

    Arriving in the Netherlands by train from Belgium on a foggy Wednesday morning. The mist a veil over the flat landscape, covering villages, farms and churches in a whitewash , showing silhouettes rather than colors and details.

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  • INVISIBLE SOCIETY

    2018-10-11

    April 2013

    Three older Roma men are sitting on a fountain wall in a small, north Bohemian city. The sun is not shining. Innocent picture it may seem. However.

     

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  • (in)visible: revelation

    2018-10-10

    March 2013

    Call me old-fashioned, if you will, but I still yearn for the slow and patient exchange of experience that comes from listening to those who've gathered understanding with time, on the way.

     

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  • "Het vrije volk" (the free people)

    2018-10-10

    March 2013


    let’s us be silent
    no more words wasted

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  • the (in)visible house

    2018-10-10

    March 2013

     

    The asphalt is perfect, a bit of sand here and there.

    In the front yard only mud, in the backyard as well. The new houses are standing there a bit awkwardly, side by side. The bricks are clean, tight and tidy.

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  • (in)visible: taste

    2018-10-10

    March 2013

     

    The architectural craft of pasta making.

    First, the raw material is carefully piled up to form a small white mountain.

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  • Portico, Bologna

    2018-10-10

    March 2013

     

    Hiding in the shadows of sheltered arcades, I am present yet invisible. I am hiding in  in the sound of heels on polished floors, in the smells of perfume shops behind the doors, in the movement and chattering of schoolchildren passing.

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  • Abdelkader Benali: 21 schaamteloze observaties voor een 21e eeuwse Nederlandse architectuur

    2018-10-10

    March 2013

    Ik neem het vandaag op voor alle onzichtbare gebouwen, de gebouwen die niet genoteerd staan in onze catalogus van het netvlies, de gebouwen die over het hoofd worden gezien, de gebouwen waar het stof van de onverschilligheid overheen ligt.

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  • womb

    2018-10-10

    March 2013

     

    barren, barren

    ancient spears

    life-long crises

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  • Eunoia, a literary approach within architectural practice

    2018-10-10

    February 2013

    The title of this article introduces us to the beautiful thoughts of Christian Bök, a Canadian poet. To write “Eunoia”, he restricted himself by the use of only one vowel for each chapter.

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  • Eunoia

    2018-10-10

    Feburary 2013

     

    ‘Eunoia’ is the shortest word in English to contain all five vowels, and the word quite literally means ‘beautiful thinking’.

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  • Three days...

    2018-10-10

    February 2013

     

    The street belonged to us, to pirates, cowboys, robin hood, witches and all the other characters I can’t recall. It was the terrain of the samba band, the sound wagons and the drunken harmony.

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  • edge

    2018-10-10

    February 2013

    walking on ice towards the island
    where three men eat silently
    soup from a kettle
    a table, a window

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  • this street

    2018-10-10

    January 2013

    this street is a sudden silence
    I’m woken up by a darker morning light
    filtered by snow on the roof window
    this is street a wider space

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  • newyear

    2018-10-10

    January 2013

     

    this street is a universe

    i'm woken up by toddlers from a kindergarden

    the apple tree it's called

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  • manual

    2018-10-10

     December 2012

     

     

    there is a special way to turn the key,
    use gentle force so you won't slam the door

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  • photostory THE CITY by Gert Anninga

    2018-10-10

    December 2012

     

     

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  • photostory THE BUILDING by Gert Anninga

    2018-10-10

    December 2012

    photostory by Gert Anninga

     

    Sanne Dijkstra

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  • family, faraway

    2018-10-10

    December 2012

    style over style, layer upon layer, these houses seem to feed on time

    stones and bricks and wooden beams and boards

    clad with tiles and bound with knots of iron

     

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  • Bunker 599

    2018-10-10

    December 2012

     

    Het water, het riet, het te hoge gras. Onze voeten worden nat, onze broekspijpen ook. De schapen schrikken en hobbelen snel voor ons uit. Witte wolken in het groen.

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  • hallways: Berlage

    2018-10-10

    November 2012

     

    I live in a house without hallways, in my dreams corridors are always endless, or hidden, or dark and without people, with broken tiles, old doors and age-old porcelain wash basins.

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  • 76

    2018-10-10

    November 2012

     

    crouched over a pint of stout

    he is haunted by sharp memories of a long lost love

     

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  • TRACES

    2018-10-10

    November 2012 

    We do not rent, squat or own our house; we guard it until it gets demolished. We inhabit a structure of brick, wood and glass that is in transition.

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  • Lost Worlds.

    2018-10-10

    November 2012

    The city lost its scents of a century ago.
    ‘Bad’ odours are expelled from the public domain.
    The industry has left the city centre and commerce determines now the flavour of the city.

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  • Speech

    2018-10-10

    November 2012

    October, The Hague

    And if I would speak to you, my reader, how would I describe that moment, yesterday, when after a conversation about places and atmospheres I encountered it. And recognized, just like before, that moment of speech, when the city  addresses me directly.

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  • Autumn in the city

    2018-10-10

    October 2012

    In Autumn I travel the most;

    to visit cities like Fedora, Maurilia, DespinaandTekla,

    To walk along The Street of the Crocodiles,

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  • Puppy love

    2018-10-10

    November 2012

    He met her when he was 16. Love at first sight, no, it was not. The first meeting went rather stiff. It was autumn, the streets were covered with orange and yellow colored leaves.

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  • Dutch city: U

    2018-10-10

    October 2012

    serendipity had it, we found a water tower

    in the prettiest of cities

    and all that I saw there, I am

     

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  • pilgrimage: scorpion

    2018-10-10

    October 2012

     

    for S.

    oh, this silence, overwhelming
    for sound, banshee footsteps, forlorn on the dimmest of streets
    (running nowhere)

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  • Dutch Landscape

    2018-10-10

    September 2012

     

    Landschap;

    ORIGINE laat 16e eeuws.

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  • Daar en heen

    2018-10-10

    September 2012

     

    groen

             na blauw

                            na grijs

                                         na wit

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  • Dutch landscape: Midden-delfland

    2018-10-10

    September 2018

    While riding my bike through the fields between Rotterdam and Delft, I often stop at places where nobody is around. On a bench I explore the scenery.

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  • Dutch Landscape: Amsterdam-Leiden

    2018-10-10

    September 2012

    Image

     

    traveling
    between reflections

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  • shelter; Brekkukot

    2018-10-10

    September 2012

     

    before my travel departures I take shelter in the summerhouse of Bjart, an independent shepherd who lives in the land of settlers. he explains to me the hard conditions under which he has to tend his sheep. fall, winter, spring or summer, at 64 degrees north you need to be prepared for climatic conditions, you might need a shelter. 

     

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  • Dutch landscape: limitless, bound

    2018-10-10

    September 2012

    Limitless, bound only by the turbulence of the northern sky (so romantic), I dwell among giants, and the controlled nature of the lowlands, in permanent discovery.

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  • Dutch Landscape: An amateur bike ride

    2018-10-10

    September 2012

     

    I have been living in  Delft for two years already, but I always seemed to be too busy to visit Delftse Hout. It took a moving and a new, Korean house mate, to lead me there.

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  • shelter: Arhipera Romania II

    2018-10-10

    August 2012

     

    Nicoleta looks worried when a large group of people enters the domain where she and her family have just moved, after their old house became inhabitable. They would like this process to be over as soon as possible, they look forward to the moment when the house is theirs to use. They have collected precious things and brought them to their new place.

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  • shelter: minimal prayer

    2018-10-10

    August 2012

    exhausted by all that is human

    I am sheltered

    by the depth in your eyes

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  • shelter: Arhipera Romania

    2018-10-10

    August 2012

    We arrive at the very edge of the village, next to the railway, where the wind has free spell along the new house that seems still alien to this place. Here, we meet Olguta, a woman with a beautiful face marked by a hard life, and Mitiça, her husband.

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  • pilgrimage: Planiteron*

    2018-10-10

    August 2012

     

    The holy smell of my grandparents' village after the rain

    the wrinkled saints, with their faces scared by sun and labour

    the voices of the sacred animals, the humble livestock ...

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  • pilgrimage: refugio

    2018-10-10

    August 2012

    Refugio

    bell towers have been silenced

    stone piles flattened out

    leaving an empty network behind

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  • pilgrimage: way and further

    2018-10-10

    July 2012

    way and further

    way, he is called, and sometimes further
    his signs appear in absence
    when steps touch rhythms of earlier lives
    she stops and waits. were they to meet here?

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  • Landscape: Silhouettes.

    2018-10-10

    July 2012

    I heard of places where the light reigns,

    where the darkness cannot close a book.

    I heard of places where darkness prevails,
    only the stairs bring light.

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  • piligrimage: ruins

    2018-10-10

    July 2012

    While the weaker fear and the poor (at heart) fight to keep the city barren

    nature insists, quixotic, on treasuring this jewel

    Behind blue tiles, rugged masonry basks in time ...

     

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  • Landscape: Le corbusier's dream.

    2018-10-10

    July 2012

    Speed and progress.
    Technology to help humanity. Improve, ease, cure.
    Order, based upon mechanics that will shape our future.

    A new ideal. A new utopia.

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  • landscape/pilgrimage: the Scotswomen

    2018-10-10

    July 2012

     

    The following poem was written in summer 2011, after a tour along the Scottish coasts, mountains (bens), lakes (lochs) and winding roads. In these landscapes one senses mythical power, age and wisdom.

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  • pilgrimage: wilderness

    2018-10-08

    June 2012

    The stone lady receives me violent. Lovely.

    She winks at me, biting her lip, then slaps my face - the cold Mistral. Yes, this is my pilgrimage, one that starts in the world, at its roughest, and always ends in my gut.

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  • Moving

    2018-10-08

    June 2012

    High school ends. 800 km journey to the north. A station wagon packed with me and all my belongings plus two proud yet melancholic parents. Station wagon empties and there I am, facing what I thought of as absolute freedom in the tender age of 18.

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  • landscape: Northern coasts

    2018-10-08

    June 2012

    Take off. A turn from Amsterdam. Hanging tilted in the sky I see my coast below. The long stretch of beach along the North sea, the strip of dunes before the land gets organized.

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  • landscape: mountains

    2018-10-08

    March 2012

     

    I live here. 

    The world is flat and straight, and there are no flies. Seasons change, and sometimes bring the miracle of snow.

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  • imaginary building: 0.3

    2018-10-08

    May 2012

    From the beginning of time, this building has been assumed as a representation of the world - its interior keeping the most complete repertoire of contradiction known to man.

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  • nest: the Shaman's hut

    2018-05-23

    The end of the village, the start of your realm.

    The darkest of hours, the shadow of the elm.

    The space and the time, the cry of the owl.

    The tent of the shaman, the nest of the soul.

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  • nest: all of this and nothing

    2018-05-23

    March 2012

    First she brought a toothbrush. Like a twig from another tree, she brought.

    Next thing I knew, the drawers of my cupboard were full of her underwear, shower knobs drying slips and my t-shirts squeezed beneath hers.

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  • New Monthly Theme: Nest

    2018-05-23

    Eagles building nest (http://gardeners-roost.blogspot.com) 

    Je cueillis un nid dans Ie squelette du lierre
    Un nid doux de mousse champetre et herbe de songe.

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  • A Memory or... ?

    2018-05-23

    Memory...?

    There is one thing that has troubled me for some years now. A feeling that keeps me awake, let's me doubt myself.
    I cannot be sure, is it real or not?

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  • memory: the raft and the slide

    2018-05-23

    March 2012

    My brother and me have quite a few things in common, but I think one of the most striking ones is our shared appreciation of my mother's tolerance towards our destroying the living room furniture.

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  • memory: contention

    2018-05-23

    March 2012

    I hardly remember when they took the crib away. They simply said I was big enough to sleep on a bed, and the next thing I knew was that they brought in all these boards and started assembling my very first.

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  • just spotted...

    2018-05-23

    March 2012

    "Writing the Modern City. Literature, architecture, modernity", edited by Sarah Edward and Jonathan Charley, Routledge 2012.

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  • memory: art

    2018-05-23

    March 2012

    Our tents stood at the edge of a cornfield. It must have been before summer, because the crops were not very high. It was early in the morning when I opened the tent, which I shared with my little sister.

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  • food utopia/ food dystopia

    2018-05-23

     

    February 2012

    The light barely comes into the carcass of the old construction site. This time of the year the vines cover the façade, perfectly substituting the high tech sunshades that were installed here 20 years ago. All this high tech technology to make panels that follow the sun, shade, and produce energy at the same time

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  • a place to write

    2018-05-23

    A place to write, or to write about? Or a place to write about other places?
    This virtual writing place is a strange one - accessible from everywhere, still undefined, immaterial, without a clear shape or size. It is unlike any other writing place I used before.

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  • Space is only Words...

    2018-05-23

    February 2012

    Part of anexhibition and selected for a conference in Prague, Mark Proosten and myself wrote the essay "Space is only words". It is an essay based on both our graduation projects for our Master degree in architecture.

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  • imaginary building: 0.2

    2018-05-23

    February 2012

    It is impossible to decipher it, basically because there is no single number that can round this building.

    Its construction consists, since the beginning and all the time, of an endless addition of partial solutions to specific problems. Therefore there is no way to compare it to anything else.

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  • imaginary building: 0.1

    2018-05-23

    February 2012

    In no particular place (of no particular kind either – preferably, though, any prosaic and ordinary setting is best), this shape suddenly appears, sometimes.

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  • My favourite writing place

    2018-05-23

    February 2012

    ations. That's the place. No, wait. I mean, I have never thought about it before, but if I could choose my three favourite writing “places”, then it would be my lap, agony and stations.

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  • Readings on the Public Realm - Landscape

    2018-05-23

    December 2011

    The most recent group in the msc2 City&Literature series has just presented their results. This term, the course was given by Hans Teerds and Klaske Havik, and focused on the reading of landscape as a public realm.

     

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  • image to text: just how the light falls

    2018-05-23

    December 2011

    that is the strange part
    that it is nowhere black
    and nowhere really white
    it is just how the light falls

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  • Image to Text to Image

    2018-05-23

    December 2011

    Architects are trained to draw, to express themselves through images, models, pictures.

    Writers are trained to express themselves through language.

    But we have two hemispheres on our brains that work so well together when we give them the chance. So why not try?

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  • Delft courses in city&literature

    2018-05-23

    December 2011


    The course City&Literature, taught since 2006 at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft, offers ways to use writing as a creative and critical tool to approach architectural and urban questions. The use of literary exercises allows heightening students’ perceptual receptivity and awareness of spatial experience, while the continuous exchange between the different modes of operating provides new means for site research and design.

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  • Writing Place TU Delft

    2018-05-23

    December 2011

    Writingplace is a platform aiming to explore alternative ways of looking at architecture, urban places and landscapes by the means of literary writing. Initiated as spin-off of the city & literature course at the TU Delft, writingplace facilitates communication between writing initiatives at school of architecture, as well as between practicing architects, writers and researchers who wish to explore the connections between these fields.

     
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