Spaces of encounter: the performative art of reading

“Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them […]

Posted at 7:21 pm on May 29, 2019 | Leave a comment | Filed Under: Architecture | Continue reading

The Parasitic Reading Room

“[Books] can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you’ve never been. Once you’ve visited other worlds, like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in. Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them […]

Posted at 10:29 am on March 11, 2019 | 1 comment | Filed Under: Architecture, Books, cities, urbanism | Continue reading