#Line as Threshold of the Visible World // first thoughts

April 16, 2015 by bg-martin

  “[T]here is an outside and an inside, and myself in the middle, this is perhaps what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on one side the outside, on the other the inside, it can be thin like a blade, I am neither on one side nor on the other, I am in the middle, I am the wall, I have two faces [surfaces] and no depth…”[1] — Samuel Beckett   Line as Threshold of the Visible […]

Categories: Falling in Line • Tags: architecture, Falling in Line, line

The Architectural Plan as Map | Eric Miralles

October 11, 2012 by bg-martin

The Architectural Plan as Map by Eric Miralles “In all my recent work, I think I have been utterly focused on being involved with reality, in other words, always in the midst of contradictions, the difficulties, the misunderstandings, there in the thick of it… When I am asked what sort of architecture interests me, I realize I finally have an answer: ‘architecture that is capable of avoiding demagoguery‘. In other words, architecture that is capable of not hiding the complex reality it […]

Categories: Archilibs, Drafting, drawings • Tags: Archilibs, architecture, design, Drafting, drawing, Eric Miralles, ink, line, maps