1 January

1507 Pierre Delorme's name first appears in the accounts of the Cardinal Georges I. d'Amboise's château at Gaillon

1783 Francesco dedicated his Teatro di Ercolano to King Gustav III of Sweden

1857 death of John Britton
1870 M. Digby Wyatt, "The History of Art by its Monuments: Seroux D'Agincourt"

1944 death of Edwin Lutyens

sobering thought
2000.01.01 08:30     9000f

Trading Cities 3
2003.01.01 13:04     7800n

site of first circumcisions
2003.01.01 13:24     3775f 8210k 8281

Re: earthquake in Italy
2004.01.01 14:16     3711

philip johnson was a whore. rem koolhaas is a porn star.
2007.01.01 21:40     3336n 3749l 3770o
2007.01.01 22.23     3336n

Gehry @ Sydney
2011.01.01 11:29     3331v 3749t 3768d 3771c

Constructing Modernity (KSA Japan Wrap-Up)
2014.01.01 12:30     3775t

SHENZHEN
2014.01.01 13:03     3751e 3773n
2014.01.01 20:26     3751e 3773n

We need to talk about TED
2014.01.01 13:32     3773n

1 January
2014.01.01 14:15     3307j 3773n 3792h 4711z
2014.01.01 18:59     3773n 3792h 4711z
2014.01.01 22:06     3773n 4711z

1 January
2017.01.01 13:33     3315

Lee Kim Kim   House of Fairy Tales

Office9   House of Fairy Tales



2003.01.01 13:04
Trading Cities 3
The following is from Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities:
Trading Cities 3
When he enters the territory of which Eutropia is the capital, the traveler sees not one city but many, of equal size and not unlike one another, scattered over a vast, rolling plateau. Eutropia is not one, but all these cities together; only one is inhabited at a time, the others are empty; and this process is carried out in rotation. Now I shall tell you how. On the day when Eutropia's inhabitants feel the grip of weariness and no one can bear any longer his job, his relatives, his house and his life, debts, the people he must greet or who greet him, then the whole citizenry decides to move to the next city, which is there waiting for them, empty and good as new; there each will take up a new job, a different wife, will see another landscape on opening his window, and will spend his time with different pastimes, friends, gossip. So their life is renewed from move to move, among cities whose exposure or declivity or streams or winds make each site somehow different from the others. Since their society is ordered without great distinctions of wealth or authority, the passage from one function to another takes place almost without jolts; variety is guaranteed by the multiple assignments, so that in the span of a lifetime a man rarely returns to a job that has already been his.
Thus the city repeats its life, identical, shifting up and down on its empty chessboard. The inhabitants repeat the same scenes, with the actors changed; they repeat the same speeches with variously combined accents; they open alternative mouths in identical yawns. Alone, among all the cities of the empire, Eutropia remains always the same. Mercury, god of the fickle, to whom the city is sacred, worked this ambiguous miracle.


2003.01.01 13:24
site of first circumcisions
It seems that Mamre, the place of settlement and burial of Abraham, within today's Hebron, is also the site of the Abraham's and Ishmael's circumcision.
[1 January is the Christian feast of Christ's circumcision.]
At the east side of the Herodian enclosure are the foundations of the Basilica of the Terebinth of Mamre from the time of Constantine (4th-century AD), attributed to Constantine's mother-in-law, Eutropia. According to one source, when Eutropia visited the site, she found it defiled by idols and heathen sacrifices. When she informed Constantine of the situation the emperor wrote a letter (preserved in Eusebius' "Life of Constantine") to Macarius, the bishop of Jerusalem, and other bishops in Palestine, expressing his desire that the pagan altar be demolished and replaced by a church. This church was so important that it was depicted on the famous 6th century AD Madaba map. It was probably destroyed during the Persian invasion in 614 A.D.
--some results of a web search of eutropia hebron

2007.01.01 21:40
philip johnson was a whore. rem koolhaas is a porn star.
philip johnson was a bore.
rem koolhaas is a car horn.
steven holl has a fetish...



2007.01.01 22.23
philip johnson was a whore. rem koolhaas is a porn star.
You mean the reenactment fetish that is almost always denied?


2011.01.01 11:29
Gehry @ Sydney
Anyone else remember Eisenman's proposal for development around Ground Zero from 2002?
I can't tell if the genetic pool is shrinking or expanding.
Q: Which came first, repetition or difference?
A: A reenactment of a reenactment turned sideways.
The "teen" years = wise-ass architecture.

2014.01.01 12:30
Constructing Modernity (KSA Japan Wrap-Up)
Last week I read the following passage:
"When they came to build the west front of St.-Pierre at Corbie, in the first decade of the eighteenth century [begun c. 1706], they submitted a design in the Gothic mode for the proposed classical facade that was submitted earlier, a decision parallel to that made at the same time for the west front Orleans cathedral, where the king, possibly under the influence of the Maurist scholar Bernard de Montfaucon, demended that "l'ordre gothique" be adhered to. These, though, may all be interpreted as examples of Gothic survival."
Of course, I have long known the term 'Gothic revival,' but this was my first introduction to the term 'Gothic survival.'
...you write, "Kuma continues to work in a subtle postmodern mode – an indication to me that a PoMo revival is in the works." Perhaps Kuma's continued work falls within the category of PoMo survival. Just a thought.
When you wrote, "Though there is a slight break in my understanding of the history of Japanese architecture between the 70s and 80s," I right away thought of Arata Isozaki's work. Thinking now about Isozaki's continuum of work, there is a certain (very high quality but nonetheless) chameleon aspect to it all, not too dissimilar than the practice of Philip Johnson.

2014.01.01 13:03
SHENZHEN
Not sure why, but, while reading this post, I thought about the possibility of a virtual architectural biennale, some kind of online extravaganza. Webpages as venue for exhibits, lectures, discussions, touring. If I was the curator of the first such virtual architectural biennale the theme would be "How would you curate a virtual architectural biennale?"
Perhaps I should just start a forum thread "How would you curate a virtual architectural biennale?" every two years and see what happens.


2014.01.01 13:32
We need to talk about TED
Thirty odd years ago when I was one of the few architects in the world using CAD everyday at work, there was a lot of resistance to CAD in the architectural community at large. I wonder how prevalent parametricism will be 25-30 years from now? It wouldn't surprise me if parametricism and CAD come to share a similar history.
On a personal level, I still from time to time find myself (finally) acting on an idea I had 10 or 15 or even 20 years ago. The thing is though, the resultant executions of the years-old-ideas still manage to manifest a quality of innovation. Perhaps it can then be said that innovative ideas may take time to become a 'reality', but the innovation itself does not become old.


2014.01.01 20:26
SHENZHEN
...in thinking more about it, the idea of a virtual biennale kind of came to me because I realized that your last two posts about the Bi-City Biennale are being written (I assume) from Los Angeles. That got me thinking about how my virtual experience of the Bi-City Biennale through your posts is even more virtual than I first imagined. Eric (above) wrote your "essay has an overall Wish You Were Here feel," but you weren't even still there yourself. I don't know, it just seemed very inverted, paradoxical even.
Regarding a virtual biennale, I realize that it could never have the live event-ness of a real biennale, nor in any way be a 'machine' to bolster a local economy, but that lack of real place/time and economic drive might just be the underlying theme of any virtual biennale. Also, inversion. Instead of "Wish you were here," it would be more like: let me (virtually) show you what's special about where I'm at, but, to be honest, I'm glad you're not here because if too many people came here, then the special-ness would be lost.

15010101 GAUA working base plan   3392ui01
15010102 GAUA site plan 1100x550   2429i00
15010103 GAUA site plan 4765x4765   2177i30


15010101   Lee Kim Kim   House of Fairy Tales
15010102   Office9   House of Fairy Tales


16010101   Courthouse Plus Ultra site plan 1100x550 Campo Rovine   3392vi04
16010102   Courthouse Plus Ultra model site plan 1100x550 Campo Rovine   2399i09 3392vi05
16010103   Villa + 15 model site plan Campo Rovine   2409i05 3392vi06
16010104   Villa + 15 site plan 1100x550 Campo Rovine   2409i06


21010101   Il Redentore plan section   2083i02
21010102   House 10: Museum model opaque off   2197i24
21010103   House 10: Museum model opaque off Il Redentore floor pattern   2197i25
21010104   House 10: Museum plan Il Redentore floor pattern   2197i26
21010106   House in Old Westbury plans sections elevations   221di02



2013.01.01 11:22
1 January
Within the 2012.08.08 The Philadelphia School, deterritorialized post that began with "It's nice when coincidences spur a story," there is one more coincidence that I didn't notice until yesterday. See the second and the second to last images of that post:

















No doubt some of you will think "same difference." But then again, "ashes to ashes, dust to dust."



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