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limbo-schizophrenia
Today, I remembered that the inside-outside coexistence in some architectures also falls under what I consider osmotic architecture--the equal exchange of inside and outside, e.g., the Pantheon, Kahn's Kimball Art Museum, porch/stair hall of Schinkel's Altes Museum. In light of this, I think the inside/outside distinction of limbo architecture needs some further consideration. I like limbo architecture's notion of becoming, and I also think the notions of restraint and neglect should be added to the definition. Since I see osmotic architecture as the manifestation of something sacred, perhaps limbo architecture is the profane counterpart of osmotic architecture, or maybe (even better) limbo architecture exists within the thin realm between profane and sacred. Osmotic architecture is 'uplifting' whereas limbo architecture is striving?
Ouradou, Maurice Augustin Gabriel
Ouradou was a pupil of Viollet-le-Duc, whose daughter he married. He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in 1845. After leaving the school he was appointed inspector of the works at the cathedral of Paris and of the château of Pierrefonds. He was made architect of the diocese of Châlons in association with Eugene Millet, architecte des monuments historiques in 186n-1870, and architect of the chateau of Pierrefonds in 1880.
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