A city’s reflexes are only revealed through the art the city is exhibiting and creating…or at least that’s what I think.For me the art that I see during my summer holidays usually inspires the work that I create until next summer. This is because that is the period when architecture festivals are usually carried out. I saw the most inspiring art and engineering pieces in a handful of student proposals (AA Review 2017, ‘Open 2017’ University of Westminster School of Architecture) as part of their research in materials and geometric forms. I saw some captivating sculptures and installations pieces in parks (exhibition entitled ‘The garden sees’ in the garden of Megaron, Athens) during some rare quiet moments and I saw some interesting scenarios about the future of our cities in abandoned buildings (exhibition entitled ‘Tomorrows’ at Diplarios School in Athens, end of year show -University of Bath School of Architecture at the Truman Brewery during LFA 2017). The exhibitions ‘Brave Old World’ at the RIBA combined with ‘Futures Found’ at the Architecture Space of the Royal Academy of the Arts, provided rich conceptual stimuli on what concerns the legibility of notions of private versus public in ‘public’ spaces, while the exhibition ‘The Japanese House’ at the Barbican,combined with the BBC’s documentary about Japan and the book ‘The Vanished’ was inspiring in many aspects . My visit to the Watts Chapel in Guildford and to the Frieze Sculpture exhibition on a weekday morning at Regent’s Park after the rain, provided the most ideal ‘closing’ of the summer period’s exhibitions. Now it is time to explore all the different ideas that the artwork has instigated…
The ideas that I would like to explore further in my own projects next year, will be based on the art that I saw in the exhibitions/buildings that I visited and concern the following concepts: the stitch as a form-finding mechanism, the texture of a surface as evidence of ‘trauma’, degree of perforation in dividing structures as a
evidence of varying degrees of freedom, architecture as mandala art,architectural ‘leftovers’ in public spaces as remnants of a collective memory that has been erased, emptiness and its relation to desertion and to the positive ‘negative’ space (or ‘ma 間’ in japanese), similarities between the arrangement of words in a sentence and building forms along a road.
evidence of varying degrees of freedom, architecture as mandala art,architectural ‘leftovers’ in public spaces as remnants of a collective memory that has been erased, emptiness and its relation to desertion and to the positive ‘negative’ space (or ‘ma 間’ in japanese), similarities between the arrangement of words in a sentence and building forms along a road.
If I wanted to make a sketch about 
through regeneration schemes. De-industrialization, a process both negative and positive in many aspects, has transformed the city of Ostrava. The large scale of the industrial sites, the machinery and the infrastructure for the ironworks has had such a big impact both on the image and the perception of the city. 
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