![]() It has caused us to huddle close, in our balconies and terraces but isolated from our wider circle and community. Hugs and kisses, these dissolved the distance before but now a tentative, invisible line physically separates us. If anything the tactile dimension of life has been robbed, the “eyes of the skin” as Juhani Pallasmaa describes the haptic senses we use to connect with others. The crisis has reduced life to its very essence as a fruit pressed to its pulp demanding pragmatic architectural practice. Yet, we must learn from history and not be quick to erase her, as much as we can’t foresee a life bustling in the streets any longer. The COVID 19 pandemic has caused an outreaching ripple in the future of all that we’ve known is normal. ©The Los Angeles Timesįor every event recorded in our history textbooks, there has been a lesson to be learned. “There is no space without event (…) no architecture without a program” – Bernard Tschumi From theaters to open offices, design in the age of COVID-19 will change the way cities look.
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