Vesper No. 6 | Magic | Spring-Summer 2022
Cherubino Gambardella
The Magic House
There are
many reasons for creating architecture that occupies a magic space if we remove the burden
of being responsible for greater amounts of carbon dioxide in the air,
increases in manufacturing waste, and huge downstream waste production from
demolition processes in the creation of new cubic volumes.
The magical
sea, the internal pool of simultaneous events that took place without a murmur,
is the conceptual place where we can draw on timeless shapes, intense and
popular forms, which lead us to bounce among the mysterious forces of a unique
and immense liquid mirror. Braudel describes it to us as sad and full of
traffic, Eliot as painful and contemporary with the drowning of Phleba the
Phoenician, Matvejević as dense as an egg, Pamuk as endless as the
labyrinthine unravelling of his Istanbul. This fantastic salt lake has a life
too well known not to refer to those architects of the ‘eternal
present’ that I have so far evoked as if in a séance.
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