ÎNRĂDĂCINAREA ARHITECTURII. Pământul și cum este perceput prin prisma arhitecturii
[UN]ROOTED ARCHITECTURE. The ground and how it is perceived through architecture

Summary/Abstract: While driving along Pipera Boulevard, caught in a slow traffic, I was struck by the image of two contrasting fragments of worlds “glued” together like within a collage: a villa pertaining to Pipera, the new hip periphery of Bucharest and an old house, belonging to Pipera, the old village. Two worlds were coexisting uncomfortably, side by side, like parts of the clumsy, unnatural body of Frankenstein’s monster. Beyond the qualities or faults of the two houses or their typological differences, what moved me was how differently they made the ground they occupied be felt, lived and perceived. There were two different earths being inhabited: a flat and sterile one, a generic lawn and cement tiles surfaces, and a vivid, lush, nurturing, fertile and changing one.

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