The Architect is Absent: Approaching the Cycladic Holiday House

The Architect is Absent: Approaching the Cycladic Holiday HouseThe white cubical house, the vernacular architecture in the Aegean Archipelago, knows no author. Its capacity to resist harsh climatic and topographic circumstances has been improved and adjusted through time and seems today close to perfection. The white washed Cycladic House has become iconic to the image of Greece through the construction of national and tourism narratives. What happens when an architect steps into this process of anonymous

” Balancing the thin line between documentary and fiction

mix and cross over

transit and transmission

of the forgotten

Unlike the historian

Ana Martinez-Collado

Taipei Biennial

In its first instalment

a major social fact of burning relevance today

A Vietnamese woman living in Paris travels back to Sài Gòn for her estranged mother’s funeral

which reinforces the sense of ‘unity in layering’ that elevates this modest little book above mass mediocrity

Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another