Experiments’ Platform 2023

Ruins teach softness, slowness and grounding.
Ruins witness the fight between humans and nature, in which nature prevails.
Ruins trace time, memory and create a sense of belonging.
Ruins teach us about architecture.
But only quality architecture has the potential to become beautiful ruins.
3 Álvaro Siza, Imagining The
Evident, Monade, 2021; Vittorio
Gregotti, The Other, 1998, 142.
Perhaps we should spend more time in the silently decaying bodies
of abandoned buildings? Vittorio Gregotti encourages us ‘to rediscover the
uniqueness of evident things’; after all, natural change can be really charming.3
Just let architecture decay.
03.1 — Redefine the Existing
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