Exposure

Split Sites and Simultaneous Spaces Utilising the key texts propose a virtual/imagined room and street. The supplementary text is a guide to qualities of light and materiality that should be explored in your proposal.

Rules.
Your proposal must be concerned with TIME, NARRATIVE, LIGHT, MATERIALITY, OCCUPANCY and USE.

Key Dates
Friday 17th October: Brief Issued
Friday 20th November: Crit

Key Texts
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino.
Species of Spaces and Other Places, Georges Perec.
Naples, Walter Benjamin.

Supplementary Text
The Lume Materiale in the Architecture of Venice, Perspecta, Vol 24, Marco Frascari.

Lebbeus Woods, Sarajevo Reconstruction, 1994-95

Buildings are used as a popular stage. They are divided into innumerable, simultaneously animated theatres. Balcony, courtyard, window, gateway, staircase, roof are at the same time stage and boxes. p170 Here, too, there is interpenetration of day and night, noise and peace, outer light and inner darkness, street and home. p175, Walter Benjamin, Naples, One-way Street, and other writings.

Invisible Cities
Recommended Chapters;
Thin Cities 2, p35. Thin Cities 3, p49. Cities and Signs 5, p61. Thin Cities 5, p75. Trading Cities 4, p76. Trading Cities 5, p88. Cities and Eyes 4, p90. Cities & Eyes 5, p105. Cities and the Sky 4, p144. Continuous Cities, p 152.


Species of Spaces and Other Places, Georges Perec

Polo: ‘Sire, now I have told you about all the cities I know.’ ‘There is still one of which you never speak.’ Marco Polo bowed his head. ‘Venice,’ the Khan said. Marco smiled. ‘What else do you believe I have been talking to you about?’ The emperor did not turn a hair. ‘And yet I have never heard you mention that name.’ And Polo said ‘Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.’

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1972.