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THE FIFTH SEASON: SUBLIME IN THE CITY
By Quintin Lake
featured in the book Cinematic Architecture
A few years ago I travelled with some friends one summer to the arctic. For two month we travelled through this reduced landscape leaving our homes in the city. We moved through the ever-changing light and the constant horizon. Kant wrote that the sublime is the moment before fear, feeling overwhelmed and yet using the power of the mind to stay grounded. Occasionally the wind would blow the snow with such force that there were no forms from which to take a bearing.
It sometimes seems bizarre when our desires are so ephemeral, that we live and move in such fixed forms. I yearn for a space of the fifth season within the city: a horizon and no walls, a house constructed of light, whose presence takes one by surprise. and responds to the seasons.
The house of the fifth season is located beyond the houses in a position of lightness where the possibilities of a new horizon can be seen. In the city the light sits perched on a raised structure, its form is created with a laser-light projection. The ephemeral edges are barely visible during the day. At night the reflective coating of the sky mesh screen glows with the laser light. The seasons of nature and the mind are the house. The layered transparent interior filters the city. The house has become the horizon.
Text & Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
Pascal Schoening with Cinematic Architecture Book. Photograph by Rubens Azevedo
The book looks at 17 years of Architectural Association Diploma Unit 3 work and the past present and future of cinematic architecture.
Editors: Pascal Schoning, Julian Loffler & Rubens Azevedo. Design Stephan Doesinger. Published by AA publications
Featured content by Quintin Lake:
THE FIFTH SEASON: SUBLIME IN THE CITY
Photograph and design of the Cinematic House installation
from the chapter OF CLOUDS AND SHADOWS by Ron Kenley
Photograph of Briey: Cité Radieuse by Le Corbusier
from the chapter BRIEY CONVERSATIONS
Photograph from The Cinematic House installation at the Cinematic Architecture exhibition at the Architectural Association, 2006.
BUY PRINTS/LICENSE more of the completed Cinematic Architecture exhibition images
BUY PRINTS/LICENSE more of the construction of the Glass House at the Cinematic Architecture exhibition images
from the book Cinematic Architecture in the chapter OF CLOUDS AND SHADOWS , by Ron Kenley
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
Photograph from Briey: Cité Radieuse or Unité d’habitation by Le Corbusier from the book Cinematic Architecture in the chapter BRIEY CONVERSATIONS, Pascal Shoning, Rubens Azevedo, Julian Loffler
see the full photoshoot here
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
