Solidified Ode: Disappearing Architecture: Disappearing Architecture

Author: Jiang Lan
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: Due to a heavy rainstorm, a section of ancient wall near my home collapsed, and the wall that recorded 500 years of vicissitudes vanished. The wall where I used to draw figures and the sky during my childhood disappeared. Ancient things are fragile. Perhaps it once shone brilliantly at a certain point in time, along with the dreams it sheltered, but the waters of time always uniformly erase everything, let alone architecture! Architecture is frozen music, and also an excellent medium for us to listen to the rhythms of history. When nostalgia gradually evolves into a fashion, may the emotions we evoke be not just curiosity, but also the inheritance of history and soul that architecture should possess!