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SIMULACRA

SIMULACRA, an index of references

Looking out from inside the Brion Memorial's meditation pavilion through Carlo Scarpa's two interlocking concrete rings, across a lily pond to the cemetery's low boundary wall and the hills beyond.

Carlo Scarpa

Brion Cemetery, 1969–1978

ARCHITECTURE / RITUAL / WATER / GEOMETRIC

PHOTOGRAPH Viaggiamocela / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Cropped for layout; this adapted presentation is offered under the same licence.

A private index of architecture, objects, clothing, images, sound and ideas.

Follow a signal and the borders stop mattering. Concrete runs from a cemetery to a coat to a corridor.

The Nakagin Capsule Tower seen from the street below, its stacked prefabricated capsules receding up the corner of the shaft against a flat grey sky.

Kisho Kurokawa

Nakagin Capsule Tower, 1972

ARCHITECTURE / MACHINE / CAPSULE

PHOTOGRAPH Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0Cropped for layout.

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