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Jan Vranovský’s Parallel Worlds

In the words of the artist Jan Vranovský:

Photography of man-made, synthetic and thus culturally significant environments, heavily focused on architecture and urban areas of Japan and East Asia. More specifically, focus of this photoblog lays in capturing cultural patterns unwittingly occurring in mundane, often neglected or less known urban areas, no-name, local or vernacular architecture and customs, in search for the “lowest common denominator” of architectural and behavioural Japanese-ness. I’m greatly concerned about role of cultural memory and identity in form-generative and organisational processes in the city. I’m interested in capturing aesthetics that are usual by-product of such processes.

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Modern Day Farmhouse in Puglia

Designed as a modern day farmhouse in Ostuni, Puglia, Masseria Moroseta by Andrew Trotter, uses local materials, traditional building methods and details from the local architecture, resulting in a building that fits perfectly within the olive trees, a real Pugliase vernacular. The masseria is a working farm of organic olive oil, and has six suits with private gardens, for holidays immersed in the countryside, with views to the sea.