The Architecture of Shadows

by Dylan Trigg

"If, as architect Sverre Fehn has suggested, the creation of a shadow constitutes the origin of place, then how does this interplay between the place of shadows and the openness of light form a dialectics of memory? Beginning from the earth, the darkness of the built environment constitutes both a break and an opening in the landscape. With this double opening-break, the landscape becomes bordered through the production of difference, articulated through the role the shadow plays in demarcating territory. . . The movement of shadows carries with it the movement of place. As a result, places are created which have been marked by the movement of shadows in time. " read on

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