“Enter Ecbatana”

This intricate pencil drawing was produced during a lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. It recalls the travels of the semester in Italy a year and a half before. In the days when this drawing was produced, I was living in a new city, ten months into an architecture career. The office was a stale and dry place creatively and I longed for being somewhere exotic, exploring new places and meeting new people. The scene is a future view of a place flooded by waters, making it resemble Venice. Lebbeus Woods’ work was strongly affecting me at the time. The name of the work has nothing to do with the subject; Ecbatana is an Iranian city, still the name contributes to the exotic thrust of the image. It is obviously elsewhere and very far removed from stale suburban offices. Produced 18 October 1994 = Tayya 5177, five dozen first phase (Ñixaþ-Asyðanal Xrga).

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