Chia-Lin Chen Blog

Personally, this is the third year coming for this well-established show in the European architectural field. For some reason, I like this year's show the most, spent more time on reading the texts of design concepts, more interested in the issues they are involved in, and also appreciate the way they present their work.

The narratives of the interactions with urban context presented by Unit 17 interest me the most. The topic is "decay and emergence: the becoming of cities". Rio de Janeiro was chosen as the scene of their field work. Within this group, two of them especially drew my attention partly because they are nominated in the short list of awards, partly due to the availability of portfolio next to their drawings, which allows me to understand the underlying ideas of work. One is about tramway interchange, while the other is about the immigration centre. Two themes in the tramway interchange project are "movement and lost in translation". On the other, the immigration centre project attemptsto theorise the architecture of arrival. 

29th March 2009

Today is such a sunny day in London. Asako and I have decided today's meeting a month ago. After my haircut at Yuka's studio, we supposed to explore Bricklane market on sunday. Although I have visited Bricklane on sunday once before, it'll never be tiresome to go there. Everthing is changing, every time is different from the previous experience. But just before we left, Yuka was mentioning about Columbia market. Rebecca told me once it was really nice. I'd never been there before today. So we decided to explore there first and come back to Bricklane later. We made a right decision.