LEADER 03331nam 22004933 450 001 9910795247803321 005 20210901203502.0 010 $a1-63840-934-X 035 $a(CKB)4940000000602672 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6550801 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6550801 035 $a(OCoLC)1247659686 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000602672 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Empty Room $eFragmented Thoughts on Space 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York City :$cActar D,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2020. 215 $a1 online resource (105 pages) 311 $a1-948765-40-3 327 $aIntro -- Prologue: A Room to Begin With -- The Empty Room -- Fragmented Thoughts on Space -- Postscript: Nothing Vs Everything -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgement -- Authors Biography -- Inventory -- Colophon. 330 8 $aPart aphorism and part manifesto, this book by Canadian architect Reza Aliabadi (RZLBD) references his ideas and thoughts about space. He suggests 'the empty room' as the very essence of architecture, and 'the spatial experience' as its highest mandate. Reza revisits architecture not as the walls that enclose the space but rather the space in-between the walls. What he calls an "anti-architecture" of invisible voids. Today architecture has fallen short as a discipline and has instead converted into an industry, part of the commercial establishment. Accordingly it has given up its capacity to offer contributions and has been reduced to being a service. It has become all about a form-making exercise and dressing it up with a fashionable skin. What matters most, is the look of it, and the contest to keep that look relevant in the media as long as possible. It submits itself to a sick competition for visibility. The more awes it creates, the more viral it becomes. What used to be an autonomous discipline and a source of inspiration, stimulation, and motivation now has become the subject of entertainment, speculation, and show business. Now, it is necessary or rather urgent to pause, take a moment, go inward, search for the essentials, and hope to rediscover a principle which is at once basic and timeless. Where to begin then! Well, as Kahn always said: Architecture comes from the making of a room. This book starts with this, the very desire to dwell in a space in its most basic form-- a room. Through short passages and aphorisms, this text revisits space as the only protagonist, the very foundation, and the sole essence of architecture. It affects your perception of space, it makes you to look at architecture differently-- most likely to see the invisible. 517 $aEmpty Room 606 $aSpace (Architecture) 606 $aSpace (Architecture)$vQuotations, maxims, etc 606 $aSpace (Architecture)$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01127601 608 $aQuotations.$2fast 615 0$aSpace (Architecture) 615 0$aSpace (Architecture) 615 7$aSpace (Architecture) 676 $a720.1 700 $aAliabadi$b Reza$01482871 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795247803321 996 $aThe Empty Room$93700789 997 $aUNINA