(via Golden Mantra Mandala With Red Background)

Photo by Igor Andreev

Things that inspire us: 

Petstools by Hanna Emelie Ernsting

“The desire to relax at home, to cuddle up on the couch and put your feet up serves as a constant inspiration for the designs of Hanna Emelie Ernsting.

With Pets she transforms the purely functional, everyday footstool into a delightfully cozy companion enhanced with new aspects. You can put your feet up…or plunge them into the soft material to warm them. Pets are true eye-catchers and can add a humorous and playful contrast to more conventionally furnished living spaces.

With few details enhancing the minimalistic shapes, Pets evoke associations with animals and irresistibly invite you to “pet” them and be amused. The many different animal forms offer creative combination possibilities and will spark the collector’s passion.”

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DOUBLE FEATURE: ARCHITECTURE AS SOCIAL METAPHOR

PARASITE (2019) AND US (2019)

Okay, this pairing doesn’t make for the most relaxed of evenings, but despite their violence and brutal social commentary, both of these movies are still partly comedies (albeit dark, satirical ones).

The symbolism employed is very similar: a family finds their comfortable Modernist home infiltrated by a matching, but much more deprived, household of four.

 In both films, the social themes are manifested architecturally, as a world of ‘above’ and ‘below’.  An airy, light-filled house sits obliviously over an underworld of sewerage-flooded sub-basement apartments, hidden panic-room dungeons, or subterranean tunnels. While the inhabitants above enjoy their exposed beams and plate glass windows, and fret about boat purchases or hors d'oeuvres choices, they remain happily ignorant of the conditions within which those beneath them are trying to eke out an existence.

In both films the central argument is one that has enormous relevance to architecture: that in large part it is not who we are intrinsically, but rather the dignity or depravation of the circumstances/environment we find ourselves in, that can shape our behaviour, and even our character. (Poster by by Choi Ji-Su for the French steelbook release)

Farmhouse, Catargo, Costa Rica,

Tetro Arquitetura