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writes, one’s most immediate audience is
not one’s own contemporaries, let alone posterity, but one’s predecessors.”32 “No
real writer ever wanted to be contemporary”, Jorge Luis Borges argues in the
same vain.33 This view opens another essential perspective on the significance
and role of remembrance; all creative work is collaboration with the past and
with the wisdom of tradition. “Every true novelist listens for that
suprapersonal wisdom [the wisdom of the novel], which explains why great novels
are always a little more intelligent than their authors. Novelists who are more
intelligent than their books should go into another line work”, Milan Kundera
argues.34 The same observation is equally true of architecture; great buildings
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page199from Nordic Architects Writes
Looking through a window is a profound
architectural encounter rather than a visual design of the window itself.
Caspar David Friedrich, “Frau am Fenster”. 1822
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page198from Nordic Architects Writes
a respectful dialogue with the past, both
distant and immediate. At the same time that the work defends itself as a
unique and complete microcosm, it revives and revitalizes the past. Every true
work of art occupies a thick and layered time instead of mere contemporaneity.
There
is yet another dimension in architectural memory. Architectural images, or
experiences, have a historicity and ontology of their own. Architecture begins
with the establishment of a horizontal plane; consequently, the floor is the “oldest”
and most potent element of architecture. The wall is more archaic than the door
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page197from Nordic Architects Writes
Slowness and remembering –speed and
forgetting
“There is a secret bond between slowness
and memory, between speed and forgetting… the degree of slowness is directly
proportional to the intensity of memory: the degree of speed is directly
proportional to the intensity of forgetting”, suggests Milan Kundera.25 With
the dizzying acceleration of the velocity of time today and the constant
speeding up of our experiential reality, we are seriously threatened by a
general cultural amnesia. In today’s accelerated life, we can finally only
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page196from Nordic Architects Writes
The Meditation Grove on the hill is an
image of hope and resurrection. Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz, The
Woodland Cemetery, Stockholm, 1915/1932
“House,
even more than the landscape, is a psychic state”, Bachelard suggests.23
Indeed, writers, film directors, poets, and painters do not just depict
landscapes or houses as unavoidable geographic and physical setting of the
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