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1922 ARCHITECTS

PHOTO: SONGTAM SRINAKARIN

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WHO
Piangor Pattayakorn & Songtam Srinakarin

WHAT
Architectural practice who believes architecture is not only to embrace human yet to connect them back to nature. We are obsessed with architectural language that speaks implicitly through its simplicity and details

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WE SEE OUR SOULS BETTER IN THE DARK

TEXT & PHOTO: WAN CHANTAVILASVONG

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I was traveling alone on a cloudy and misty day when I found myself in a total serenity among the Ajanta caves: a world heritage site that Buddhist monks had lived in over a thousand years ago. The caves and the structures are what is left from an arduous act of digging on the stones. The deeper into the mountains, the dimmer and more blurry the light becomes one with the darkness. There, in the darkness, sit small dark rooms surrounding the main hall. Each room is a void absence of light, which is left for us to contemplate on the nature of our souls.

In this darkness, 2 craftsmen used their small lights to prolong the life of these dark voids that enrich the nature of our souls.

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Wan Chantavilasvong is a city planner and a researcher, who cherishes photography as her serious play. Her photography often portrays the similarities and differences of the environments and the lives of people in different parts of the world.

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