Cities: Through the Senses: Where are the crickets in Barcelona?

Monday, June 20, 2011

Where are the crickets in Barcelona?

The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
~Frank Lloyd Wright~

Where is the land? Where is the ground?

Can I hear them if I put my ears on the ground?

Where is the sound? Where are the crickets?

I can hear them chirping in my head.

Maybe, I can hear them if I have antennas…

Agnes Stephania for Metropolis 2011
BCN, June 2011

All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you. There are, however, some winged creatures that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground. Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. But all other winged creatures that have four legs you are to detest. ~Leviticus 1~

"The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. 'Vámonos, amigos,' he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating duskl

— Eli Cash (Wes Anderson)

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Through the Senses?

Aware or not, we are facing an age where 40% of the human population live the urban life [and by mentioning it, I mean only to raise an awareness]. Well as others, facts stated to raise or emerge consciousness; or to explore implications. Along with this fact comes hundreds, if not thousands of problems and discourses - always try to peels over matters, which in turn deliver another discourses, or studies - subjectively or objectively relevant - often also produce forecasts and references. But...., do we really are aware of the very subject [or object] of this long answer-searching journey?

We always tend to try to look objective. But in many case, subjectivity apparently more needed - at least to see the asset of research; subjectivity in looking at the facts and to shape a dream of the future or maybe just one simple utopian picturesque of a conception or imaginary vision. This is the kind of rationalization I use in these writings.

Depart from a personal educational background in architecture and urban culture, cities appeared to me as spaces interposed one another in one big network as a living organism. From this side of perspective, I treat the city as space[s].

When I first encountered architecture as a study, I was told to appreciate the space - with its enclosures, parts, which shape it's character - through senses. In this matter, later I recognized something quite amazing: that in the study of words - we will find that "sense" have both the definition of "appreciate" and "senses" [5 senses], along with its role as the rational "common sense". So I chose to experience the space[s] by first - appreciate it through my senses; so that I could find its own particular shape, warmth, scent, noises, and taste. Maybe it would somehow raise a better understanding - or maybe it's just to enjoy and to feel the pleasure that lies in and beyond this realm.

"Humanized experience" of a city, I call it - for as Yutang said, "How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell and a still one?" ; so if we are also in the 40%, then we may experience it in a colorful and happy way...

Cities: Through the Senses

Monday, June 20, 2011

Where are the crickets in Barcelona?

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