Part II: A House for a Widow
5“I seemed to have crossed one of those legendary rivers that divide the living from the dead, entered a place in which I could be seen only by those who were themselves recently bereaved. I understood for the first time the power in the image of the rivers, the Styx, the lethe, the cloaked ferryman with his pole. ”Joan Didion "The Year of Magical Thinking"
6A tool is a passage. It transforms friction into fire; words into truth; thoughts into reality. It brings about metamorphosis, evolution and the argument for imagination. The invention of tools elevated mankind by giving a purpose to their intentions. Architecture not only transcends the physical world but also the metaphysical world. It recalls ancestral memories of survival.
In my sleep I dangle the weight of a pillow.
You fade like the collapse of a dead star;
I rise with the swell of clear water
I rise with the swell of clear water
Part I: In Search of Settlement
1 Search is the ceaseless process of pursuing our place since the moment life began for us in complete darkness. Starting from the vast and vacant unknown, we are led to hold more and more awareness and understanding of the answers to “what are we doing here?” through the passage of time. It is the only methodology with which each of us go through the course of a life.
2 Settling is the strategy of adapting one’s position to cope with circumstances impossible to resolve. It is inherently unsettling to dwell in absurd existential conditions such as being “alive”, within a “body”, inside a “world” of “time” and “space”. In face of the oblivion we experience from the “World”, A settlement is where we go when we accept our impotence and their insolubility.
Part II: A House for A Widow
5“I seemed to have crossed one of those legendary rivers that divide the living from the dead, entered a place in which I could be seen only by those who were themselves recently bereaved. I understood for the first time the power in the image of the rivers, the Styx, the lethe, the cloaked ferryman with his pole. ”
Joan Didion "The Year of Magical Thinking"
6A tool is a passage. It transforms friction into fire; words into truth; thoughts into reality. It brings about metamorphosis, evolution and the argument for imagination. The invention of tools elevated mankind by giving a purpose to their intentions. Architecture not only transcends the physical world but also the metaphysical world. It recalls ancestral memories of survival.