Taipei。台北

the less than fluid project

This is an international architecture project from Portland State University. The project incorporates two different perspectives of Taipei City.

From the perspective of The Student, who was born and raised in Taipei; and after being away from Taipei for nearly seven years, she has finally come back to the city. She is re-introduced to the city, through researching, looking, listening, walking, and experiencing.

There is also the Professor's point of view. The Professor has never been to Taipei, he is being introduced to Taipei for the first time. Through images, sounds, and poetry; The Professor will make out his own unique imagination and vision of Taipei.

FOR MORE DETAILS ON THE PROJECT, GO TO THE LABEL 'SYLLABUS' ON THE RIGHT---------------------->

Friday, October 24, 2008

Revision On The First Image

More on this first image.

Water is the source of life. "Rain", "Raining" should be consider as "life falling down from the sky".
"Fish" is the product of water, humans were developed from fishes.
Fishes themselves are mutations from life, and so are the humans.

Taipei as a highly technology-oriented city, now look up to the mutations instead of life itself.

People in Taipei are attached to the coldness of technology, and stop feeling the nature that falls upon us.
We are showered by the Unnatural. And we worshiped it, not understanding what it is, and we are losing touch with truths.

The more we worship the Unnatural, the more we became closer to it.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The truth is that we are becoming foreign to what made us. We now fear nature and the chaos of its power which its own natural order.

Everwhere you read it is always natures fault for getting in our way for causing floods, droughts and earthquakes. The process of the earth is to take care of itself and has a process that we work against and ignore.

There were only 300,000 million people in the ENTIRE world in 1000 C.E. that is the population of just the United States today. Even in the 1900s there were only 1.6 Billion. Now we have over 6 billion people on this planet. With those numbers why should we fear nature? Acutally we just fear ourselves.