Field Notes - The Architecture of the Lane II
Field Notes — The Architecture Of The Lane Part II is the continuation of Field Notes - The Architecture of the Lane . After writing about the architecture of the lane, I returned there. Or better, I went there once again. I have been going to that lane for a long time. Sometimes it requires returning to the same paths, looking again, noticing what was always there but remained unseen. Even from someone like me who has crossed that lane, those lanes, many times before. Further away I could see another presence. The large weeping willow I had found the other day. It's a tree that seems to belong to another world. Standing beneath its canopy felt like stepping away from the city, even though the tree was inside a small urban green space surrounded by streets and buildings. The willow suggested something hidden. Porto has always been a city of water. Much of its history is written over rivers, streams and underground waterways. The city was built upon water, and many of...
