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12 houses for the Gods of Olympus
The research for the Houses
of the 12 Gods of Mount Olympus and, more precisely, those that
are represented on the eastern frieze of the Parthenon (work
of Phidias inspired by the 28th Homeric Hymn to Athena) started
in the later part of 1995, with the intention of investigating
the spatial organisation, form and expression of a house for
a god and, initially, that of Zeus. After a number of months
of contemplation, study and design, I have realised that conceptually
a house for a god should not have any relationship to human
organisational and functional typologies, morphology and scale.
Therefore, with these criteria and recognition of the complex
personality, behaviour and multiple faces or transfiguration
of the gods, I have tried with the help of God, and of the gods
...to interpret even partially, the character, behaviour and
disposition of the various gods, composing Platonic and other
polyhedral (solids) forms in space with allegorical references
and associations. In other words, the house expresses the personality
of the gods. Regarding "the space" in this case it
is represented by the cube - for all houses of indeterminate
dimensions and scale. The cube also symbolises the entity and
unity of the gods in the Cosmos. This work is totally antithetical
to the various representations of the gods and their space or
environment in painting and sculpture so far...A proposal for
a more abstract iconography.
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