Sunday, November 07, 2004

Architecturalizing Books

For the past year or so, I've been itching to build an architectural model of a piece of literature. What would, say, Jane Eyre look like if it were 'translated' into a building? Better yet, if you could depict a composite of all of Freud's writings on intrapsychic functionings, and translate that composite into a building, what would that look like?

What do you think: can a book be represented/translated/interpreted into a kind of habitation? How? What is the thinking behind a particular novel, say, being transformed into a unique piece of architecture? What would you designate as the novel's "structure," that would be represented in architectural structures?

And finally: what do you think it would be like to live inside a translation of a book into a habitation? Would it at all feel like you were "living inside the book" in the way we usually mean that phrase figuratively?

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