Idea by
Juliana Sokolová
Call for ideas 2019
The buildings that mean you must live
The buildings that mean you must live
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- Site-specific cases
The most fascinating element of writing about architecture is following the resistance and requirements of the specific material to be written on: first the wildness of fabulation, the associations, the fictions, the resonances of words, the possible lives; then a calming down, a seriousness, intuiting the connections, composing, listening to the resonances again. Because of this it is not possible to propose a concept for the book independent of the specific projects and the ways they are told. Instead I propose an approach to writing it:
Language: searching for a language that relates the ideas to human intensities without clichés. Relating English to the languages in which the ideas were first thought
Audience: architecture in the context of living or trying to live. Book that is accessible to a general audience beyond creative professionals
Format: text that enables the intoxicating experience of solitary reading but is open to adaptations,e.g storytelling in architectural space
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The buildings that mean you must live
The buildings that mean you must live
![](/media/cache/9d/5d/9d5dcc7b7c02c237b80a45bfc14624b0.jpg)
- Site-specific cases
The most fascinating element of writing about architecture is following the resistance and requirements of the specific material to be written on: first the wildness of fabulation, the associations, the fictions, the resonances of words, the possible lives; then a calming down, a seriousness, intuiting the connections, composing, listening to the resonances again. Because of this it is not possible to propose a concept for the book independent of the specific projects and the ways they are told. Instead I propose an approach to writing it:
Language: searching for a language that relates the ideas to human intensities without clichés. Relating English to the languages in which the ideas were first thought
Audience: architecture in the context of living or trying to live. Book that is accessible to a general audience beyond creative professionals
Format: text that enables the intoxicating experience of solitary reading but is open to adaptations,e.g storytelling in architectural space
![](/media/cache/a5/cd/a5cde58fae13625e41920130972c353c.jpg)