Evoking and making history through a building: an essay about Castelvecchio
Leone Battista Alberti famously argued that beauty is “the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or...
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Essays
Essays were the first medium with which I began to understand architecture and one that I am keen on carrying forward after I graduate. I have a particular interest in history and how it is reflected in architecture, below are some examples of my writing, all of which have been published in the faculty's yearly Critical Context Journal.
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Making Site for Absence: Analysing the Jewish Museum in Berlin as a Heterotopia
In “Of Other Spaces” Michel Foucault describes heterotopias as ‘places of otherness’, a paradox made by the juxtaposition of polar...
The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Wall
Introduction From leading the world in innovation with the invention of gunpowder, paper and print, to being forced into modernity by...
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