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REPORTAGE- Rhythm & Gender
by stephenlauf, 05.18.04 10:26 am
I like the zip... list above. like chapters, like lessons, like evolutionary stages, like different floors of a building I'd love to design, like a row of restaurants while you're perpetually hungry.
Le Corbusier is very high on my list. Go to Harvard's Loeb Library to see my analysis of his unexecuted Palais des Congres—they were the only one's that purchased both the slides and drawings I published in 1991.
Early Mies still intrigues.
Gropius never really inspired me at all.
What I find historically interesting is a comparison and contrast of Freud's first visit to Rome (gen Italia) and Le Corbusier's first visit to the Arcopolis.
I'm not sure the Romans ever built in the Doric order. Composite was indeed their order of choice.
Seutonius relates how a delegtion from India came to Rome during the reign of Augustus. This makes me really wonder why the Great Stupa in India (c. 1st cent. BC) and the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome (also 1st cent. BC) are virtually identical in size and design.
Why do you think Piranesi first deliniated all the circuses of the first printing of the Ichnographia Campi Martii in a stylized manner, and then (unnoticed for over 200 years) changed all the circuses into copies of the Circus of Maxentius in the second printing of the Ichnographia Campi Martii? Piranesi sure knew how to paint a quaestio abstrusa!
You know how Eutropia confessed that (her son) Maxentius was a bastard soon after Maxentius died in battle against Constantine, well, I hear Eutropia recently made another confession as to how Maxentius' real father was Diocletian. Ain't that a hoot?!?
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