“misunderstood buildings” by amy eckert, who writes:
“If houses can be said to have personalities, who’s to say they don’t have longings, imaginations, inner lives? In architecture, a folly is an extravagant, useless, or fanciful building, or one that appears to be something other than what it is. In their book Follies, Grottoes & Garden Buildings, Headley & Meulenkamp define a folly as a “misunderstood building”.
In this collage series I combine my own images with pictures from architecture books and manufacturers catalogues. By removing the house from a picture, I get to fill up that void with my own extravagant, useless, or fanciful ideas. I like to play around with the reliable stability of architectural space and confuse inside with outside, shelter with storm.”
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ohhh, this kinda gives me chills. what brilliance
not particuarly a fan, coming from an architecture background i would prefer the buildings to “want to be” something outside of the realm of the natural or built environment…like Bernard Tschumis follies in Parc de la Vilettes in Paris