Video: World landmarks from Christina Layen's paper cities
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
American Christina Layen is an architect by profession, but she does not design future houses from concrete and brick, but cuts them out of paper. This material allows the architect to donate the second Eiffel Tower, the Uffizzi Gallery and the Taj Mahal to the world. And by the way, paper cities are growing by leaps and bounds, much faster than real ones.
American architect Christina Lihan graduated from the University of Virginia, studied and worked in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, traveled to Italy. But most of all, her trip to Czechoslovakia influenced her and her future paper art.
In Czechoslovakia, the architect became closely acquainted with the faceless identical "boxes" of which the local "Third Streets of Builders" in new districts consisted. After that, Christina Layen began to appreciate the old buildings in historic centers much more - including paper cities.
The constant movement from city to city and from country to country is a paradise for an architect looking to gain more experience. This experience helps Christine Layen even now, when she switched to building paper cities.
Volumetric paper sculptures by Christina Layen are multi-layered and protrude 5-15 centimeters above the surface of the paper. It takes two days of work to create such beauty.
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