"... these photographs are a reflection of this architecture at a specific moment in time.
They are a permanent record, but are not a record of permanence"
James Morris
アフリカの泥建築をテーマにとった、
イギリス人写真家ジェームズ・モリスの展示をみてきた。
彼はマリやトーゴなどのアフリカ諸国を訪れて、
すべて手作業で泥を積み立てて作られるという民家やモスクなどの写真を収めた。
泥で作られた建物は、少しづつ壊れてしまうため、一年に一回は補修しなくてはいけない。
その建築デザインは自然に溶け込んでいて、
「利便性が過度に追求された」現代の西欧の建築物とのコントラストも展示場で上映されていたビデオでなされていた。
展示場から出て、街を歩いていたら、去年大学を卒業した中国人の友人に会った。
現在テスコの上に住んでいるというので、どんな所なのかみさせてもらった。
自然光が中庭にはいる斬新なデザインではあったのだけれど、
どこだかやはり、つまらないと感じた。
Went to see a photography exhibition in the town.
The photographs were taken by a British photographer James Morris,
and it featured the African adobe (or mud) architecture in West African regions.
I learnt that these mud buildings are all made by human hands
and because of mud's fragility, the buildings need to be maintained at least once a year.
There was also a video playing in the exhibition
They were also playing a video at the exhibition that featured the adobe architecture which
made a good contrast between the modern western architecture which are designed
"almost soley on economic terms", where as the adobe architecture were "extention of nature".
I got out of the exhibition and was walking aroud the town
when I bumped into a Chinese friend who've graduated from uni last year.
He told me that he's living in an apartment above Tesco; I asked him if it was okay to have a look.
The design was very modern, there being a courtyard which was brightly lit by the natural sun light.
But having just seen the exotic african adobe buildings,
I thought this one was rather, boring...
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