ON LILITH’S HOUSE IN EDOM 02

As the worst of the venom left my lips, I thought, ‘If, despite this lie, he strips

The mask from my soul with a kiss — I crawl His slave,—soul, body, and all!’"

— Browning 1098

‘If Paradise-door prove locked?’ smiled you. I thought, as I nodded, smiling too, ‘Did one, that’s away, arrive—nor late Nor soon should unlock Hell’s gate!’

— Browning 1098

It ceased to lighten and thunder.

Up started both in wonder, Looked round and saw that the sky was clear, Then laughed "Confess you believed us, Dear!"

"I saw through the joke!" the man replied They re-seated themselves beside.

— Browning 1098

REMEMBERING Memory

REMEMBERING Memory

MACHINE: Camera Obscura

PROGRAM: The Viewing Room

ON LILITH’S HOUSE IN EDOM_CONCEPT SKETCH TRANSFORMATION

REMEMBERING Temporality

MACHINE: Camera Obscura

PROGRAM: The Archive

The Victorian poet Robert Browning re-envisioned Lilith in his poem "Adam, Lilith, and Eve". The poem uses the traditional myths surrounding the triad of Adam, Eve, and Lilith. Browning depicts Lilith and Eve as being friendly and complicitous with each other, as they sit together on either side of Adam. Under the threat of death, Eve admits that she never loved Adam, while Lilith confesses that she always loved him:

As the worst of the venom left my lips,

I thought, 'If, despite this lie, he strips

The mask from my soul with a kiss — I crawl His slave, — soul, body, and all!

GENERATING Fate

DISCOVERING Direction

SURVERYING Place

MACHINE: Theodolite

PROGRAM: Generator Room

PROGRESSING Direction

MACHINE: Loom

PROGRAM: Mechanical Plant Room

— Browning 1098

Browning focused on Lilith's emotional attributes, rather than that of her ancient demon predecessors. In figure 2.2, as an architectural allegory, three drawings respectively imply Lilith's mental journey after learning the truth: shock, struggle and fall, each drawing is composed of a myriad of integrated architectural languages translated from the ancient carvings and sculptures to portray Lilith that symbolise the place identity over the time: a woman with wings flanked by bird owls; a "dwelling of the night" and associated with night demons or creatures; a Clock that keeps the time; castles are overgrown with thorns with the rise of the smoke, while hoot owl nest in the shadow of the "night" (The name Lilith translates as "night" in Hebrew root word).

Design Tutor: Daniel K. Brown

Project Stream: Architecture & Dystopia/Architectural Narratives Stream TZ