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materi:l of her words layer upon layer, describing and creating innerand outer landscapes.Personal landscapes. lmaSes and landscapes of longing, mourning, tranquility,joy,lone iness, sanctuary, ugliness,the pretension of pride, seducfion.ln my meno y Lhe/ all have a li8hc of cheir own.ls it even possib e to imagine thinSs without light?Tanizal(iJun'ichiro praises shadows.ln the dark deprhs ofthe traditionalJapanese home.where shadows crouch in all the corners.the gold of alacquer painting glearns,and gentle lighr is diffused through translucentpaper stretched over the delicate wooden frame of a sliding door sothat one can hardly distinguish the source of the daylight that capturesand reflects the objects so beautifully in the half light.Jun ichiro praises shadows.And shadows praise light.Shadowl€ss modernismlf I remember righty,l h:ve seen buildings of classical modernism thatcelebrate the light and the landscape. Richard Neutra's houses in California,for example.Shadows do not seem to loom large in these architecturalcompositions. But brightness does.light and air and the outdoorview the sensation of liv'ng in the landscape, of having the landscapeflow into or through the rooms inside the landscape with all ofits llShts trnd shadows.Watching the sun set in these houses is a magniflcentexperience. Later,when the house is no longer illuminated fromoutside, it has to generate its own liShting, its own illuminated atmo$phere.With human light.LosAngeles by nightSeen {rom an approachinS aircraft that is gradually losing altitude, thenighttime illumination of Los Angeles looks like a magical image. Later,on the streets of the city,that same light seems pal id and sickly to me,an unnaturalbrightness in which the green lawns and bushes in thefrontyards ofthe houses lool( as if they were rnade o{ plastic.Between sunset and sunriseBetween sunset and sunrise. we furnish ourselv€s with illumination ofour own making,lights that we can switch on at will.These lights ctrnnotbe compared to daylight;they are too weak and too breathless withthelr flickering intensities and swiftly spreading shado!vs.But when I do not thinl< ofthese lights th:t we malto eliminate darkness, when I think of them as nighFtime lights,as accentuated night,as intimate illuminated cLearings thatwe carve outof the darkness. then they can become beautiful, then they can haye amagic all their own.Which lights do we want to switch on between sunset and sunriselWhat do v/e v/ant to iLluminate in our buildings, cities. and landscapes?How and for how long?
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