Raimund Abraham, Delancey Tower, (2005)

Raimund Abraham, Delancey Tower, (2005)

An unrealized project by Abraham for a structure on Delancey Street on the Lower East Site of Manhattan.

“In what direction is architecture moving? Architecture moves toward itself to dissolve in itself. To become speechless for the sake of silence, Yet filled with the desire to signify it’s solitude. Silent, unknown, sign. In the written image: Immutable. In the drawn image: unspeakable. In the built image: uninhabitable. The mystery of these images becomes the myth of the journey of architecture. And the odyssey of the imaginary inhabitants Who attempt to decipher them.”

 -Maurice Blanchot, ”The Song of the Sirens”

(Quoted by Abraham in his essay, “Speechless”, first published in: Exhibition Catalogue: Grenzliien/Borderlines, Technical University of Graz, Austria, (1989))

Valinor architecture

Spontoon, Arms and Armor

Gift of William H. Riggs, 1913 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Steel, wood (ash), gold

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/26721

CRAIG GREEN

you will find a way out…

“Prototype of a Family House,” Posázaví, Czech Republic 

by a69 Architekti