WIND

WIND. “The wind, coming to the city from far away, brings it unusual gifts, noticed by only a few sensitive souls, such as hay-fever victims, who sneeze at the pollen from flowers of other lands”  Italo Calvino, Marcovaldo: ovvero Le stagioni in città

The Leopard – Architecture of the senses

CHAPTER 4 Love At Donnafugata – NOVEMBER, 1860   …[but it was the arrival of two young men in love which really awoke the instincts lying dormant in the house; and these now showed themselves everywhere, like ants wakened by the sun, no longer poisonous, but livelier than ever. Even the architecture, the rococo decoration itself,…

The posts within this blog consider how contemporary understandings of landscapes of natural beauty, wildlands, and their boundaries offer an inadequate model for our coexistence with the rest of nature.

By visiting case studies these posts visually considers urban strategies for constructing landscapes, which intersect both rural and urban-rural dimensions.