Architecture creates memories

Cities constructed by architecture are places which create memories

Growing up on the streets would create memories with streets

Growing up with shopping malls would create memories with shopping malls

What are memories?

Memories are past events remembered

Memories are feelings and images that emerge in your mind

Are there smells and tastes in memories?

Are there sounds in memories?

Things disappeared become memories

The future is imagination

The past is memories

MemoriesThere used to be a lot of cinemas in this city

There were a lot of peddlers and markets along the streets

Walking down the streets, filled with a lot of sounds and many different smells

These memories stay in my mind even till now

That’s a city that used to enjoy such a vibrant street life

A city is composed of many artifacts and components

Most of these components are architecture

The architecture is pieced together by roads, streets, bridges, piazzas, and parks to form a city

And the architecture is linked up by various transportation networks

Streets on the ground

Subways underground

Pavements

Highways for cars

Underground railways

A city for cycling and walking

With different kinds of architectures

Residential quarters, offices, classrooms, cinemas, schools, hospitals, shopping malls, factories, museums, court houses

These architectural structures form the experiences of our lives

And these experiences form our memories

A city is an organism that keeps on changing

Cities are continuously changing, and no city remains forever the same

What remains unchanged is that the cities keep changing

A city is a place that produces memories and feelings

A city is a system built up by architecture

Architecture is like any other living thing, with a beginning, an aging process, and an end

The spaces in architecture are created by materials and substances

The spaces of concrete structures and the spaces of wooden structures have different textures

Memories are constructed by spatial textures

In a city full of big roads and small alleys

Architecture gives form to the spaces along the roads

The sizes of the architectural structures, shopping malls and their materials

The high density of highrise buildings

People are living in such close proximity

At first, the function of a city is of a mixed nature

Living and working in the same space

The spaces of a city divide living from working

Today, everything is organised on the display of a mobile phone

In that case, do architectural spaces still exist?

The form of a city changes, in the age of mobile phones

Architecture is also changing

Architecture has become some stimulating images

Spaces disappearing, replaced by images

People used to live in real spaces

The human eyes see spaces

The human eyes see images

What kind of memories are created by images?

What do you recall?

What do you know?

What do you remember?

What do you hear?

What do you forget?

What’s the difference between forgetting a person and forgetting a city?

What’s the difference between knowing a person and knowing a city?

What’s the difference between leaving a person and leaving a city?

What’s the difference between imagining a person and imagining a city?

What’s the difference between liking a person and liking a city?

What contributes to a good city?

What kind of memories would be created by a city full of air-conditioned shopping malls?

What kind of memories would be created by a city with streets and alleys of various sizes?

Are there distances between memories?

For how long would a memory last?

How long does it take to forget a memory?

What do you see and what do you remember when you close your eyes?

I remember the streets that used to be there, streets that were disorderly

I see myself sitting in a huge cinema watching a movie

I see the disappearance of these cinemas

I see spaces are changing

I know that time always goes forward, without looking back.