the architectural uncanny

Bernard Tschumi's acropolis museum uncanny plan

Freud states that "many people experience the feeling- of the uncanny- in the highest degree in relation to death".

the architect as an archaeologist digs the ground searching for meaning... tracing any evidence for the existance of the other... not realising that the closer one digs into the ground, the closer one gets to... ?

no longer home - Christina's world 3

deconstructing CW- a collage of Doha skyscrapers by author

As a young kid who grew up in a small town, C always desired an outside world he always heard of and read about in text books... big buildings and bright street lights... the atmost level of development a civilization could achieve...

C was finally granted an opportunity to see the big city, only to find out that civiliztion is not as great as he thought...

disapointed, he returns back to his old town... only to confront a new reality... the outside world he always sought, has now come to haunt and torment him...

realism deconstructed - Christina's world 2

analysis of a spectator's field of vision (by Author)

home - Christina's world

Andrew Wyeth 1948

doors 2

the vertical and the horizontal- proportions of life and death

"Death waits living on our time.
Our death is outside of us.
The death of a house is announced by the only standing structure- the brick chimney.
...
The height of a door of a house is for man's entry; the width of a door of a house is for man's exit: one dimension for life, the other dimension is for death..."
(from 'such places as memory: poems, 1953-1996' by John Hejduk)

bedroom door pic taken at a horizontal position (by KDscopes author)