M Alexandrescu
EARTH + SKY
architecture | temporality by m alexandrescu
dares fear
cosmos ground body
digging
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It wasn’t the worms I encountered, but rather the sky, for only when we are in the ground can we see the sky best; in an airplane can we see the ground best. And the strongest link between earth and sky is the body. The relationship between the earth and the sky, with humans as the link between, is an old idea – architects have even been given a special role in it:‘[architecture is] putting cosmic order on earth’ – Superstudio .
‘I’m sick of your landscapes! Tell me about the worms’ F. quoted Beckett to me last summer. She spoke of the worms, the decaying, the ugly while I spoke of the sky, the clouds, the landscape. We thought it would be a good idea to spend a day and a night in the forest, me in a hole ‘with the worms’ and she in a tree, in the sky. Later, on the other side of the earth, I remembered our proposal and dug a hole in a forest and sat in it for a while.
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