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Unicorn, in the Hall of the BullsAs we move more towards what we term scientific, we forget other possibilities. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." |Dutch studio WillemsenU has completed a house that is partially buried underground to blend in with its rural surroundings in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. More Betty Owoo
Perhaps we can’t begrudge these withholdings. After all, adventure belongs solely to the adventurer himself. We, the reader and witness, are allowed only the glimpse we deserve from the safety of our armchairs, lit with reading lamps and a comfortable cup of tea at our side. Some things must be left undiscovered and undocumented, left for our own internal meanderings which I believe the author hopes to inspire by his documentation of a subsurface largely unknown. |Local architecture studio Benjamín Murúa Arquitectos has topped an underground sports centre with a dome in the Atacama desert in Chile. More Ellen Eberhardt es uno de esos libros de no ficción interpretativa donde el autor hace el viaje de rigor para explorar una serie de manifestaciones alrededor de una idea central. En este caso se trata de la relación de la humanidad con el mundo subterráneo, tanto natural como artificial. Desde la caótica maraña de infraestructura urbana hasta las minas y cuevas, Hunt hace una exploración que nos lleva de la mano por tratar de entender la fascinación que nos provocan esos lugares privados de luz. Y como esta idea central es una que me atrapa de forma suprema; en cuanto me enteré de su existencia y siendo honestos, de la editorial que lo publica y la calidad con la que tiende a hacerlo en este idioma, me lancé a comprarlo. Iranian architecture studio Olgoo has completed a subterranean holiday home near Tehran, topped by a green roof that merges with the surrounding landscape. More Jon Astbury
Was Hunt vermutlich am stärksten von MacFarlane unterscheidet ist, dass Im Untergrund viel weniger dem Genre Nature Writing zugeordnet werden kann. Das heißt aber auch, dass hier die kritische Haltung zu unserem Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen keine Rolle spielt (für mich einer der überzeugendsten Aspekte bei MacFarlane). Ein Oberbegriff bei Hunt könnte eher „Lost Places“ sein. News about our Dezeen Awards China programme, including entry deadlines and announcements. Plus occasional updates. Then Will went to Australia to see a cave there, one that the Aboriginal people were still able to protect. It was an ochre mine. The Aboriginals believe that they came up from these caves in the beginning of time. Even some of the Native Americans have this belief. There are actually creatures living in that darkness, creatures with no eyes. I ask, “How can a human, who had evolved in the caves, more than likely with no eyes, come out into the light and survive?” I have this vision of their sitting at the mouth of the cave in the sunlight feeling its warmth and the fresh air, fearing to venture no further, but after thousands upon thousands of years, developing eye sight. I especially like their belief that they went upon the earth along songlines (paths) singing songs, bringing the nature into existence. I think of the Creator as singing songs that brought the universe into existence. Una de ellas fue en 2011, cuando en medio de un viaje por el Mayab que incluyó recorrer dos de mis estados favoritos del país y dos estados nación vecinos; mi hermana y yo tuvimos la buena idea de contratar un tour a la cueva ATM en Belice. Hunt hace exactamente lo mismo en el libro y no pude sino contrastar con alegría mi experiencia a la suya. El capítulo donde se relata la expedición de Hunt a la cueva ATM es el último del libro, donde el tema principal es la relación religiosa del hombre con las cuevas. El autor cuenta la reverencia y la gravedad y lo sagrado de la experiencia de bajar al Xibalbá. Ese día, 19 de Julio de 2011, fue una jornada no voy a decir que mística, pero sí de exagerada y frenética dicha. Nadar al interior de la cueva, seguir el camino del agua entre riachuelos y oquedades y luego salir a contemplar las cámaras con sus estalactitas y ofrendas, trepar por entre rocas y finalmente subir la escalera de metal para ir a conocer a la pobre muchacha que le tocó la de perder me hizo sentir increíblemente feliz, con un arrebato que en aquel año que estaba siendo difícil para mí reafirmó mi pasión por los espacios subterráneos. Durante buena parte del año he tenido dudas sobre qué libros van a acabar en las partes medias de mi Top 10 del año. Estoy bastante seguro de cuáles serán los primeros tres lugares y cuáles el 8, 9 y 10, pero llegué un momento a preocuparme porque no me encontraba con alguno que tuviera chances de ir en medio. Probablemente aquí ya haya terminado una parte de la búsqueda.
Who woulda expected to learn about placating the old Mondongs by walking the red marlu's songline to the Wilgie Mia? And also learn the importance of ochre? Will Hunt’s curiosity about the unknown began the summer he turned 16, when he discovered an abandoned train tunnel that ran under his neighborhood. It was this experience that eventually launched his passion for urban exploring- a hobby that allowed him to travel all over the world as he sought out abandoned subway platforms (ghost stations), dodged police officers in foreign countries, and encountered “Mole People”. While in the Catacombs of Paris, he even came across an underground library, La Librairie, where urban explorers left books for others to borrow. Oh, my soul! |Local studio Pérez Palacios Arquitectos Asociados has completed a wooden A-frame house with underground bedrooms in a forested area outside Mexico City. More Keren Dillard This startling and thought-provoking work unearths a connection to the depths at once spiritual and biological, a revelation that astounds even the most casual of readers. A must-read for the spare traveller, the amateur archaeologist, the pioneer, the naturalist, the spiritualist, the dreaming anthropologist—but most importantly, the lingering explorer who lies buried in the hidden cavities of every human soul. When the author ventures into the mines of Australia, things got really weird with miners appeasing the lord of the underworld by gifts and sacrifices and making figures to symbolize him. It was strange. Yet it is also beautiful how the aboriginal people see their ancestors as very much part of their world. They honor them in a way that our culture rarely does. Will Hunt chronicles his search for meaning in the oft undiscovered world beneath our feet with a work that is part travel journal, part anthropological study. Hunt writes of his numerous explorations underground from the catacombs of Paris and the vast tunnels of NYC, to untouched caves in South America and Australia—and everything in between. His thoughtful commentary remarks on the discoveries of some of history’s greatest minds juxtaposed with that of the common traveler turned dirt evangelist, a commentary proving that an enduring and utterly human fascination with the underground world has always existed and will exist inevitably into the future. After the author shares his first adventure under his childhood home in Rhode Island he moves on to underground adventures around the world. Bei den besuchten Orten gibt es durchaus Überschneidungen zu MacFarlanes Buch. Der Abstieg in die Pariser Katakomben gehört wohl in jedes Buch dieser Art und auch hier lasse ich mich gerne mitnehmen, auf den Spuren von Die Elenden und dem Fotografen Nadar. Die unterirdischen Städte in Kappadokien, bei MacFarlane nur flüchtig erwähnt, erfahren hier erfreulicherweise mehr Beachtung.
A panoramic investigation of the subterranean landscape, from sacred caves and derelict subway stations to nuclear bunkers and ancient underground cities—an exploration of the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the worlds beneath our feet. The author then goes to look at ancient cave paintings. The entire chapter on underground art was seriously fascinating.|Danish architecture studio Dorte Mandrup has revealed plans for the Nunavut Inuit Heritage Centre in Canada, a sweeping, partly underground structure with a form based on patterns found in the snow. More James Parkes Y pues, al igual que pasó con el libro de Waterlog (Diarios del Agua), ésta es una reseña de un libro de no ficción que sirve mejor para explicar su rating que haciendo que se trate de mí. Lo siento. When Will Hunt was sixteen years old, he discovered an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house in Providence, Rhode Island. His first tunnel trips inspired a lifelong fascination with exploring underground worlds, from the derelict subway stations and sewers of New York City to sacred caves, catacombs, tombs, bunkers, and ancient underground cities in more than twenty countries around the world. Underground is both a personal exploration of Hunt’s obsession and a panoramic study of how we are all connected to the underground, how caves and other dark hollows have frightened and enchanted us through the ages.
When the author wrote of a man from 1818 named John Cleves Symmes who declared his intent to lead a voyage to the interior of the earth to prove that it was hollow and habitable, I couldn’t help but think of Alice in Wonderland. While in the end, Symmes was considered a loon who wasted his life chasing fairy tales of underground lands, before that he sparked the imagination of many. It seems likely it sparked the imagination of the man that sparked the world’s imagination, the author of Alice in Wonderland. There is little doubt that tales from the likes of Jules Verne, HG Welles, and Frank Baum were sparked from Symmes too. Though most of us feel like aliens when going underground, there is for some a feeling of coming home again. Even when that home is like a haunted house with spiders the size of chihuahuas. In the next chapter he wrote of the Jacques Cousteau of the underworld. Someone that lives in caves or underground for a time to test his reactions. The author then tried his own 24 hour experiment in darkness in a cave. Alongside this he wrote of our first studies of sensory depravation. Fascinating read all the way around. Dieses Buch ist für mich nicht zu besprechen ohne ständige Verweise auf das ähnliche und doch sehr andere Buch Im Unterland von MacFarlane. Im Vergleich zu MacFarlane finde ich dieses Buch viel lesbarer, viel stringenter, viel fesselnder. Dabei ist die Anlage sehr ähnlich: Kombiniert werden die eigenen Abenteuer im Untergrund mit recherchierten Fakten und literarischen Zitaten. In einem späteren Kapitel macht sich Hunt auf die Suche nach REVS. Dieser war in den 90er Jahren in den New Yorker U-Bahn-Tunneln unterwegs und hat ein ganzes Tagebuch auf dessen Wänden hinterlassen. Trotz spezieller Einsatzgruppe wurde er nie gefasst. Ja, nicht einmal seine Identität wurde bekannt. Quasi ein New Yorker Untergrund-Banky, im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes.Where I expected more of a look into unknown subterranean discoveries through the eyes of a thrill-seeking explorer, I was educated rather than merely thrilled. True, it is thrilling to think of new discoveries beneath the feet we think are standing on terra firma. I was impressed by the information Hunt covers and the many diverse locations he shares. More importantly, I was humbled by the reminder of the stewardship we have over our earth, and that we seem to be drifting away from the sense of respect and appreciation for our planet that generations before us have had, especially indigenous peoples. I saw that we- all of us, the human species- have always felt a quiet pull from the underground, that we are connected to this realm as we are to our own shadow." The author tells us of his first descent into the underworld when a kid in Rhode Island. It was a moment akin to when eighth grade Bill Gates walked into his classroom to find a computer. Both the author and Gates were hooked by “it.” He started with the world below the streets of NYC which hold many secrets; graffiti, concealed and disused stations, people who are a culture of their own who live in the darkness, and much more. He then moved on to Paris and the famous catacombs that criss cross the metropolis. What is going on down there has fascinated me ever since I read of Alice jumping down that rabbit hole. Her adventures still resonate with us in part because of the story and the language, but also because deep down inside, we are all fascinated with the world beneath our feet. And the more I read this book, the more I was hooked.
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