Antología recopilatoria de los cuadernos de trabajo, dibujo y ensoñaciones del arquitecto lucien steil. just like in the notebooks of malte laurids brigge, lucien steilæs miniature capricci are not mimetic sketches of a singular object but sublime agglomerations of detached images and metaphysical recollections of his memories of place, space, and time. his are not paintings but painted drawings. his imaginary universe is represented through a collection of ideal archetypes; archetypes which make us feel at ease with their unique degree of inventiveness and yet with their strange sense of familiarity. a fragmented collection of landscapes, plazas, streets, civic and domestic buildings, towers, roofs, porches, arcades, balconies, rooms, windows, etc. constitute the repertoire of his location neutral places; his fictional images portray spaces that do not exist today; nevertheless, at a simple glance, his places could very well occupy an existing reality in some sort of parallel universe; these are places weæve never visited and yet spaces which, with their materiality and familiar characteristics, stir our
