Beautiful images. Re ambiguity, I was told Kundera once wrote that great novels are always morally ambiguous. I think this true for buildings too, and one of the most annoying things about today's architecture is that it often denies and exclude any possibility of ambiguity. In a place which always need to be seems new there cannot be any meaning other than that given by its architects or initiators. From the other hand, as you say, all those other meanings cannot be produced synthetically (is it really? what would you say about Aldo Rossi?), they are a sum of an informal and random accumulation of the living matters. In that sense, the Mies idea of "making room", a kind of ethical retreat from the pretentious ambition to create "meaningful" spaces, seems quite an effective strategy, because it might make room for life too. In any case, i am very curious to see how all those thoughts make their ways into a specific site and an architectural project.
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Beautiful images. Re ambiguity, I was told Kundera once wrote that great novels are always morally ambiguous. I think this true for buildings too, and one of the most annoying things about today's architecture is that it often denies and exclude any possibility of ambiguity. In a place which always need to be seems new there cannot be any meaning other than that given by its architects or initiators. From the other hand, as you say, all those other meanings cannot be produced synthetically (is it really? what would you say about Aldo Rossi?), they are a sum of an informal and random accumulation of the living matters. In that sense, the Mies idea of "making room", a kind of ethical retreat from the pretentious ambition to create "meaningful" spaces, seems quite an effective strategy, because it might make room for life too. In any case, i am very curious to see how all those thoughts make their ways into a specific site and an architectural project.
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