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page190from Nordic Architects Writes
Altogether, environments and buildings do
not only serve practical and utilitarian purposes; they also structure our
understanding of the world. “[The house] is an instrument with which to
confront the cosmos”, as Gaston Bachelard states.3 The abstract and indefinable
notion of cosmos is always present and represented in our immediate landscape. Every
landscape and every building is a condensed world, a microcosmic representation.
Architecture and memory
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page189from Nordic Architects Writes
2007
Juhani Pallasmaa
Space, Place, Memory and Imagination: The
Temporal Dimension of Existential Space
The time perspective in architecture
Architecture is usually seen in futuristic
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page187from Nordic Architects Writes
moved about between the shafts of light
filtering in from the little windows. The upper floor was built of wooden
louvers with light flooding in between the slats accompanied by a fresh breeze.
A web of metal wires was strung across the space where the finished sheets of
paper hung up to dry. The scent of drying paper filled the silent space that
was bathed in light. The subdued sounds of work echoed from below.
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page186from Nordic Architects Writes
More than twenty years ago, Aulis Blomstedt
and Reima Pietilä had a brief but pithy exchange about the concept of “monument”,
in which Blomstedt quoted a Shakespeare sonnet which crystallises the idea
thus: “Your monument shall be my gentle verse which eyes not yet created shall o’er
read.” Here, the monument is a gentle verse which carries a memory, an idea,
value and meaning beyond time. It is thus a question of something that is in
some way a complete opposite to boastfulness and arrogance. The strictest
definition of architectural values is linked above all to monumentality and
artistic quality.
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