Stefano MirtiSummer’s over

No homework done and baby blue

volume 2, from nothingness to place

this is a special digital copy for architecture, between the sea and the sky

community

Milan, September 2014

In the first booklet, we went through nothingness. Not an easy task, and we did what we could. Now, in this second part, we move on.From nothingness we get to space.

Here we are, on we go.

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Stefano MirtiSummer’s over

No homework done and baby blue

volume 2, from nothingness to place

this is the first digital edition

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this booklet has no dedication

no table of contents...

Esistevano le condizioni per una vita appas-sionata, ma ho dovuto distruggerle per poterle recuperare.

Alighiero Boetti

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2. talking about place[

Now, our little prehistoric people could do all kinds of different things. They even discovered “time”. Altogether, quite impressive. Hail to our faraway ancestors!

...we were here, do you remember? the last pages of the first booklet...

sun

moon

(moving) dinner

here I am, now

all kinds of different “places” where I could be

they noticed the place where the sun sets

on the curious relation between sun, moon and earth

young lady with mirror

where the sun sets.the way the moon moves around.

the forest with wolves.the cave where we live.

all of a sudden, “places” where in his mind. little by little, the world was taking shape, form & meaning...

an articulate, complex meaning.

once in a while, I like to play with Illustrator

to observe

to reproduce

A

B

DE

F

G

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a long way to go

to look at, to observe, to think, to track, to measure, to imagine, to reproduce, to try...

can you see it?

ridge woodsbamboo

now, finally, they found a placebetter: they found placethey had place where to live and die

from nothingness, now they had “place”

again, can you see it?

next, they would start to observe the sky. next, they would start to map the sky.North Star, constellations, compasses, etc. etc.

Soviet Sputnik

early Chinese constellations

scissors

here a detail of the first map of the stars ever made in the history

of humankind

very ancient bird

mighty volcano

things coming out from the volcano

big city many people

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ms boobs

map of the known world

The iguana is not convinced at all.

All of these inventions, what are they for?Why spend all this energy to build a house on stilts? Much better to frolick (for one million

years) under the stark prehistoric sun.

So, this is how we got to Stonehenge and the like. A long journey, with many more things to tell.

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Volume 2 is over.Now, let’s move to volume 3...

This is the first digital version of this book.

Milan, fall 2014.

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