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Rotation Massing [click image to enlarge]
Hence there is no conventional or functional space, no typological cataloguing of the architecture of fairy tales as we might typically understand such a process (there is no “house in the woods,” no beautiful castle). Rather the story is reiterated as a formal, experiential facsimile of the spaces and experiences of the original tale, which have themselves been translated from the narrative of the initial story into allegorical space and now are re-translated back into pure form.
— Andrew Bernheimer and Vera Leung
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ABOUT THE ESSAY
Fairy Tale Architecture: The Halloween EditionOn Places, a design by Bernheimer Architecture for the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “The Boy Who Set Forth to Learn What Fear Was.”
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kate Bernheimer is a fairy-tale author and editor. She teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Arizona in Tucson.More Bio >>
Andrew Bernheimer is the principal of Bernheimer Architecture. He teaches at Parsons The New School for Design.More Bio >>
Vera Kai Xin Leung is a Master of Architecture student at Parsons The New School for Design.More Bio >>
DESIGN OBSERVER JOBS
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