APORIA
Imagine two cities, where the inhabitants live in parallel realities. The streets are doubled, multiple crosshatches appear along the facades, giving out onto a sprawling view of the double city. Every building is a hybrid; two functions and two spaces co-exist simultaneously. Within a single building, one can be at home or in the tomb, at the bazaar or in a palace, you are able to decide how to be in both places at the same time. While at a temple, you might find yourself in a public toilet, in a hothouse you might also be in the garbage dump. The urban fabric is a direct emanation of a split-state. Every function shadows its other function. Intertwining architectural forms create a hybrid and far-reaching city full of paradoxes and uncharted paths. The community is made from rumor and ritual exchanges of code. The doubled shadow architecture is the total fulfillment of Utopia, where the cities undergo unending hybridization and expansion. From this emergent order the scenario of your experience unravels.
BOOK
APORIA. THE CITY IS THE CITY
received the top Polish Graphic Design Award 2019 under the category Publications: Album and Catalog, and Honorary Appreciation for the „Best Book Design from all over the World” 2021 competition held by Stiftung Buchkunst.
BOOK CREDITS
Book Concept
Architecture of the City is the City
Aleksandra Wasilkowska and Shadow Architecture members Karolina Kotlicka, Monika Olesko
Philip Ball
John Menick
Andrzej Szpindler
Aleksandra Wasilkowska
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux
Krzysztof Pyda
Ettore Sottsass Jr.
Andrzej Szpindler
Aleksandra Wasilkowska
Karolina Kotlicka
Shadow Architecture
Dream Adoption Society
Soren Gauger (EN)
Jesse Larner (EN)
Bartosz Wójcik (PL)
Bérengère Vogel (FR/EN)
Jesse Larner
Krystyna Mogilnicka
Zbigniew Raszewski
Theatre Institute
Jazdów 1
00-467 Warsaw, Poland
www.instytut-teatralny.pl
zrti@instytut-teatralny.pl
978-83-66124-13-4
© Aleksandra Wasilkowska
© Ettore Sottsass Jr./ ADAGP, Paris, 2019
Claude Ledoux, rights: public domain
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AR APP
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VR EXPERIENCE
More information about Aporia as part of the “Hands up!” Rebellion in V4 cinema project, produced by the Pan Tadeusz Museum.
CREDITS
Shadow Architecture Founder
Dream Adoption Society Founder
Programming and Art Direction
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