Gallery space

This weekend I must think of ideas for a gallery space.

How can I incorporate light, circulation, and an overall sense of "gallery" with a site crammed between four buildings and two city-streets?


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Tadao Ando

Ando is my new favorite architect.  Here's an inspirational quote:

"Since there has been life on earth it is our feet which remind us we are alive.  We know we exist when we feel it in the soles of our feet and all of us in infancy begin by learning to walk.  No matter how computerized the world may become we will probably keep on walking and that will probably be the last thing we feel.  If we finally lose all perception of reality our psychological disintegration will follow and in the midst of environmental catastrophe, famine and natural calamities, being alive will mean nothing more. If the world is determined to destroy itself the only thing architects can do is make sure we don't lose our sense of touch."


Ando Tadao

What's happening here?

I do not know what this will become.  I do not know where this will take us.  I do not know how this will shape the future.

I do know that this is architectural sharing.  I do know this will take us forward.  I do know this is shaping the present.

Here is an outlet for the architectural, the abstract, the desire to design a better world. 

Are we disconnected from our dwellings?

I just read an article by a gentleman named Karsten Harries ("The Ethical Function of Architecture"):  He thinks we must utilize architecture to re-establish a "lost ethos, of environments which will make a genuine dwelling possible."  He does not seem optimistic about our cultural condition and our chances of finding our way out of this situation.

Has technology eroded intimacy by making the world a closer space?  Is the world indeed closer-together because of our technological creations?  Is intimacy and distance inversely related?

How does architecture play a role in reconnecting us with genuine dwelling?