Saint Jerome at the Grotto
The Habitats of Jerome. The author (Alison Smithson) is trying to analyse and conceive the allegory of the habitats of saint Jerome. People realised that the three habitats can be perceived as allegories came a thousand years after Jerome’s death, during the renaissance. At the time, the habitats became o topic of interest for lots of painters trying to depict the habitats themselves and also the allegory.
Summary of T3-Wigley-Arch Atmosphere-Daidalos68-1998
The text by Mark Wigley deals with the atmosphere in the context of the buildings. The atmosphere is outside the buildings and the atmosphere occupies the space between a building and its context. The atmosphere activates your senses. The atmosphere can be physical as fx moisture and sounds, and gets psychosocial in the combination of components. There are infinite possibilities of combinations.
Sou Fujimoto imposes on a reader to rethink the moment when architecture began; to stop precisely at the moment where it became an ‘architecture’; when it emerged among equally vague traces of human existence. This is where Fujimoto discovers qualities and relations of architecture’s genes that restore the conditions of human life to the overwhelming state of conception. Read More
The article I had to read is written by Sou Fujimoto.
If we have to summarize it, all is in the title: primitive future. In fact, In his article the author refers to the cave, a primitive habitation as spatial study, but gives it a far more contemporary interpretation.
The author starts with a comparison between the nest and a cave, he opposes the intentional design of the nest as a functional habitat to the unintentional morphology of the cave that gives flexibility of appropriation to its space. Read More
In this writings Toyo Ito explains the way that he feels about the many aspects of everyday life, contemporary architectural culture, which is dominated by an endless consumption and production of images, graphics and information. He also expresses his thoughts trough a metaphor, comparing architecture to a tree. Read More
