1. Symbolic
Architecture @ We
Chief Architect, One State

2. @ We

3. Industrial Zone
Residential Zone
The Cube
@ We
Prehistoric Museum +
Ancient House
The Integral
(under construction)
Government
facilities
Auditoriums
1301-1500
Accumulator
Auditoriums 1-1300

4. Marvels of the One State

5. Cube Plaza. Sixty-six powerful
concentric circles: the stands. And
sixty-six rows: quiet, bright faces
and eyes reflecting… the radiance
of the One State.
P. 41

6. Sixty-six rows

7. Sixty-six rows
Name of Allah in Abjad numerals

8. Sixty-six rows
Name of Allah in Abjad numerals
Cube-shaped
All 12 sides of equal length, whole

9. Sixty-six rows
Name of Allah in Abjad numerals
Cube-shaped
All 12 sides of equal length, whole
Worship and execution
Sense of fear towards the State and the Benefactor

10. “And, fluttering in an invisible wind,
the criminal walked, slowly – a step
up, and another, and then a pace,
the last of his life – and he, with his
face to the sky, his head thrown
back, stood on his very own final
plot.”
P. 43

11. Height

12. Height
Creating fear

13. 2
Government buildings

14. “A glass room, full of golden fog.
Glass ceilings, colored bottles, jars.
Wires. Bluish sparks inside tubes.”
P. 64

15. “Bluish sparks”, “golden fog”, “colored bottles”…
D 503’s rare experience with color, sense of misery

16. 3
Propaganda in Action

17. “All those who are able are
required to create treatises,
epics, manifestos, odes, or
any other composition
addressing the beauty and
majesty of the One State.
These works will be the first
cargo of the Integral”
P. 3

18. Spreading of propaganda through literature
Internally: the ciphers
Externally: where the Integral reaches

19. “The auditorium. An enormous, sun-
saturated hemisphere of glass expanses.
Circular rows of noble, spherical, smoothly
sheared heads.”
P. 16

20. Glass structured
The focus is on the entire state
but not what is on the stage

21. Glass structured
The focus is on the entire state
but not what is on the stage
Enclosed area for forced propaganda
Ciphers are forced to listen to talks held in the auditoriums

22. Glass structured
The focus is on the entire state
but not what is on the stage
Enclosed area for forced propaganda
Prison?
Ciphers are forced to listen to talks held in the auditoriums

23. “At the end of the avenue, where the
Accumulator Tower was sounding
threateningly, we came upon a
quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind
and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in
the middle with their golden badges already
removed – and everything was terrifyingly
clear”
P. 110

24. “At the end of the avenue, where the
Accumulator Tower was sounding
threateningly, we came upon a
quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind Detached
and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in
the middle with their golden badges already
removed – and everything was terrifyingly
clear”
P. 110

25. “At the end of the avenue, where the
Accumulator Tower was sounding
threateningly, we came upon a
quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind Detached
and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in
Symbol of power
the middle with their golden badges already
removed – and everything was terrifyingly
clear”
P. 110

26. “At the end of the avenue, where the
Accumulator Tower was sounding
threateningly, we came upon a
quadrilateral: guards at the front, behind Detached
and on the sides; three ciphers in unifs in
Symbol of power
the middle with their golden badges already
removed – and everything was terrifyingly Symbol of fear
clear”
P. 110

27. 4
Cipher’s daily lives

28. Numbers on the door: 320,
326…330, yes!
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30. “[R’s room] was as if – well, everything was
exactly like mine: the Table, the glass of the
chairs, table, closet, and bed.”
P. 38

31. Conformity
Equality

32. “The pipes of the Music Factory rang out
the March harmoniously – the everyday
March. What indescribable charm – this
everydayness, repetitiveness, this
reflectivity!”
P. 123

33. Repetition

34. Repetition
Lack of creativity
Over-reliance on logic and science

35. 5
Cipher’s Personal Hours

36. “I walked on foot along the X axis (Fifty-ninth
avenue) and the origin of the coordinates. /
[…] I purposefully chose to walk, not along
the hypotenuse, but along the two
perpendiculars. And here I was on the
second perpendicular: a section of the
circular street at the foot of the Green Wall.”
P. 82

37. Roads in straight lines
Belief to mathematics

38. “Not long ago I had to calculate the curvature of a new
model of street diaphragm (now these elegantly
decorated diaphragms are on every avenue, recording
street conversations for the Bureau of Guardians). And I
remember: each was a concave, pink, quivering
membrane; they were strange organisms, made up of
only one organ – an ear.”
P. 48

39. Monitoring of the ciphers

40. “The glimmering of mirrors, gloomy closets, intolerably
multi-colored sofas, a vast “fireplace”, and a mahogany
bed. The only evidence of our contemporary, excellent,
transparent, and eternal glass was in their pathetic,
fragile, mini-quadrilateral windows.”
P. 26

41. “Amid the multicolored noise that stifles the logical
process of thought: the red, the green, the bronze-
yellow, the white, the orange colors”
P. 152

42. Colors are distracting to ciphers!

43. Colors are distracting to ciphers!
Rejection to the past
Belief that the State’s way is the only correct way

44. 6
Recap

45. Demonstrate power and authority
Spread propaganda
Show conformity and allegiance
Rejection to nature & past
Reliance of mathematics

46. The End.
Thanks!

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