The Architect · Mali · Bangkok
Khlong Bang Luang Artist Village
I bring people here to show them the pre-automobile city. The spatial logic of a canal street — narrow paths, overhanging eaves, water as the main corridor — is the inverse of
A surviving canal-side residential lane in Thonburi. Timber houses on stilts, boats on the water, no traffic. Bangkok before the road was king.
— Mali, The Architect
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