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There is a link between words and environments. Normally when we say the word, school we then see the image of a building. What would happen if we tried to see it the other way around? In looking at buildings I found letters appear.

“The goose quill put an end to talk. It abolished mystery; it gave architecture and towns; it brought roads and armies, bureaucracy. It was the basic metaphor with which the cycle of civilization began, the step from the dark into the light of the mind. The hand that filled the parchment page built the city.”- Marshall Mcluhan (The Medium is the Massage).

INTRODUCTION

ARCHITECTONICALPHABET

Felix Candela

Church of the Micaculous Virgin

Mexico City

1955A

Michael de Klerk

“Plan Suid”

Amsterdam

1921-22B

Pter Kramer & Michael de Klerk

De Dageraad Housing Estate

Amsterdam

1920-23C

Tadao Ando

Contempary Art Museum

Naoshima

Kagawa, Japan

1992D

Aldo Rossi

Perimetral Wall of Jewish Cemetery Cemetery of San Cataldo

1971-84E

Felix Candela

Church of the Miraculous Vigin

Mexico City

1955F

Tadao Ando

Contemporary Art Museum

Naoshima

Kagawa, Japan

1995G

Michael de Klerk

Eigen Haard

Housing Estate

Amsterdam

1913-20H

Aldo Rossi

Collonade

San Cataldo Cemetery

Modenna

1971-84I

Peter Kramer & Michael De Klerk De Dageraad Housing Estate

Amsterdam

1920-23J

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Lever House

Park Avenue

New York

1952K

Casson Condor & Partners

Elephant House

London

1965L

James Stirling

Braun AG factory

Melsung

Germany

1988-98M

Tadeo Ando

Koshino House

Ashiya

Hyago, Japan

1979-81N

Brunel

Rotherhithe

1826O

Casson, Condor & Partners

Zoo

P

Tadao Ando

Chapel on Mount Rokko

Kobe

Hyogo, Japan

1985-6Q

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Building

New York

1958R

James Sitrling

Braun AG Factory

Melsungen

Germany

1988-92S

Michael De Klerk

Eiden Haard Housing Estate

Amsterdam

1913-20T

Philip Johnson

University Halls of Residence

DetailU

Michael de Klerk

Eigen Haard Housing Estate

Amsterdam

1913-20V

James Stirling

Braun AG Factory

Melsung

Germany

1988-92W

Tadao Ando

Addition to Koshino House

Ashiya

Hyogo, Japan

1983-4X

Michael de Klerk

Eigen Haard

Housing Estate

Amsterdam

1913-20Y

Norman Foster

Great Court

British Museum

2001Z