CROSS-CULTURAL PRE-COMPUTER SOUL :

                                                                Memories from my files  

                                                                                    By A.C.Antoniades, AIA 

On the way to Muuratsalo     13 Aug 1985 (Photo ACA)

Some had just arrived ahead of us....From left to the right Göran Schildt, Kristian Gullichsen, Daniel Libeskind, Elissa Aalto, Charles Correa, etc, etc.                                           (Photo ACA)

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The main staircase to the second floor, School of Architecture Building, Otaniemi University, Alvar Aalto Architect....The Building as an instruction tool                                            : The DIDACTICS of the staircase in alternate  "treads and risers"...also "Music and Architecture".........(Photo ACAntoniades)

Vernacular DIDACTICS , Mount Athos arsenal outpost....(photo ACAntoniades 1978)

Kiruna Housing by Ralph Erskines  (Photo ACAntoniades)

Unknown masterpieces, from usually Unknown masters, beyond the stardom and notoriety ....handmade PLASTICITY, twenty years ago,                                                            yet centuries ahead in "soul", Beyond CAD  and computer whim...! "Spec house", from  a subdivision  in the Albuquerque outskirts-                                                                       local contractor/developer  Igor Williams.....Photo ACA

For more on the above "PICTURE HAIKU" see:                                                                                                                                                                                             Anthony C.Antoniades,  "Architectural Road to the Deep North" in "A+U", (Architecture and Urbanism).  Sept. 1981, pp. 87-112  

All the Photos from the ACAarchives,

All photographed and © Copyright by Anthony C.Antoniades

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