An Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell

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Автор: Marlon Blackwell

Название: An Architecture of the Ozarks

Издательство: Princeton Architectural Press

Год: 2005

Формат: PDF

Размер: 17,8 mb

Страниц: 176 pages

Язык: Английский

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I live, practice, teach, and build in northwest Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains. It's a place considered to be in the middle of nowhere, yet ironically close to everywhere. It is an environment of real natural beauty and, simultaneously, one of real constructed ugliness. Abandonment, exploitation, erasure and nostalgia are all aspects of this place and are conditions as authentic as its natural beauty and local form. This land of disparate conditions in not just a setting for my work it is part of the work. By choosing to live and work here to call it home I've been able to get beyond the surface of things, to turn over the rock and discover the complex and rich underbelly of my place its visceral presences and expressive character that so informs and sustains my efforts. I am working from the conviction that architecture is larger than the subject of architecture.