THRESHOLD 45: MYTH

Article: The fragment or the myth or completeness
AUTHOR: JAVIER GALINDO

THRESHOLD 45 : Myth

Venturing into the proposition that architecture is as much constituted of stone, wood, and steel as the myths that propel it into existence, thresholds 45: MYTH will explore how architecture makes myth and how myth makes architecture.

More than stories, myths explain the inexplicable, order the seemingly unordered, and make palatable the otherwise unpalatable. Myths are evidenced in and born from both narrative and seemingly non-narrative sources; they are the collective tales which order our worlds. Some are products of long histories, so entangled in our understandings they are difficult to parse. Other myths emerge as rapidly as the ascendant hero.

With a taste for the fantastical, thresholds 45 invites submission of scholarly articles, creative contributions from the fields of architecture, art, and literature, and narrative content which clarifies or complicates our understanding of myth and architecture.