Coffee By Petr Král Summary

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Petr Král in his book ZÁKLADNÍ POJMY composes with hundred brief proses, as Kundera writes in the introduction, an unusual and beautiful existential encyclopedia of the everyday life. The look of Král is placed on everything: objects, moments, feelings, places, and his texts are like a walk in the city, small trips, intense poetic proses that illuminate the details, open our eyes on reality and sustains us all . In his stories the apparently futile, the fragile places of the everyday life come to mean.
What is it really for us a coffee? And the overcoming of a curve or a ramp of staircases?

“A FLIGHT OF STAIRS GIVES A CERTAIN DRAMATISATION TO THE WALK, BY REMEMBERING US THAT IT IS NOT ONLY ABOUT SPACE MEASURING, BUT ALSO A CONQUER AND A PROOF THAT NEEDS THE OVER-COMING OF CERTAIN OBSTACLES. [...] THE END OF THE ASCENT IS MOREOVER A PURE ILLUSION, AN UNSTEADY AND TRICKY STEP THAT SLIPS FROM UNDER THE FOOT AND UNEXPECTEDLY CREATES AN HINDRANCE. [...] A FLIGHT OF STAIRS GIVES TO EVERY THING THE PROPER WEIGHT, TO THE SUCCESS TOO, OR TO THE DEFEAT WE ENCOUNTERED UPON IT.” PETR KRÁL, ZÁKLADNÍ POJMY, 2002

When we narrate a built event this is an event that happens in the time, so conceived projects are histories of words,
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Often however, as during this workshop, we are involved in single buildings, what's going on in this case? The value of architecture it's to imagine the same vision in every scenario from the moment that the way we occupy the place we live determine the contact between us and the environment and allow us to enter, or not to enter, in relationship with the others, as individuals or as community. Narrate a project it's to narrate the charachteristic modalities of this

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