homestories2's blog

   My work  “The Courtyard”  is built on combination of the documentary observation (video, notes) after an own yard with poeticizing of everyday experience in the sketch drawing which has a form of the personal diary.

“The thought hit me that no books had ever been written about my town. I decided to write one. It turned out there were more cities by the name of Zhdanovka and this made writing more complicated. There was a lot of similar information that felt familiar, whereas I had yearned to find something distinctive...”, thus writes Alevtina Kakhidze.

 The world outlook of modern architects’ majority is based on opinion, expressed by Louise Henry Sullivan in his book “Kindergarten Chats”. According to it “everything looks like what it is, and vice versa, everything is what it looks like.” This thesis is fundamental in context of gnosiology. It gives the evidence that architects follow speculative concept of cognition. Our project is impossible in the network of that concept.