2010.11.06 15:40
Re: Seen and Not Seen
"Seen and Not Seen" immediately brought to mind a provocative passage I read just a few nights ago:
"Le Corbusier's first important building after the war was the studio residence he built for Ozanfant in Paris in 1922. In the following year he published his famous book Vers un Architecture. Probably the most influential architectural book of its generation, its contents add remarkably little to what Violette-le-Duc said in his lectures exactly sixty years before. The beauty of the machine, the importance of geometrical control in the creation of design, the stupidity of academic tradition, the lessons of the past in precision and logic--all these are topics which Violette-le Duc had dealt with. But in Le Corbusier the emphasis is, of course, very different. He is able to put the car, the air-plane and the liner in the foreground of the picture; he insists far more vehemently on the way in which engineering has leapt ahead of architecture and he coins the phrase 'la maison--une machine a habiter'. His technique, too, is lighter and faster, adapted to an age of headlines and headlights. And there is one subject he deals with at some length which would have been perfectly strange to his great precursor--the subject of factory-built houses."
--John Summerson, "Architecture, Painting and Le Corbusier" in Heavenly Mansions and other essays on architecture (1963), p. 188.
I wanted to copy the passage anyway, and now it's with even more implications.
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2012.11.06 13:24
atemporality at work?
The only architectural collage actually in the book Collage City is the frontispiece:
David Griffin and Hans Kolhoff, City of composite presence (1978).
Also, Daniel Libeskind's student collages from Cooper Union:
First published within Education of an Architect (1971).
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14110601 Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti plan work 2195i05
14110602 Leicester University Engineering Building upper plan 2181i03
14110603 Mausoleum of Constantina plan work scan plan scan plan 2072i02
14110604 Gallery B plan 2277i02
14110605 Gallery B model 2277i03
15110601 Steven Holl LM Harbor Gateway Copenhagen
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17110601 ICMS02 plans 4400x2200 2110i119
17110602 ICMS03 plans 4400x2200 2110i120
17110603 ICMS04 plans 4400x2200 2110i121
17110604 Palace of Versailles Whitemarsh Hall Robie House Maison Dom-ino Maison du Peintre Ozenfant Schindler-Chace House plans 2092i8
17110605 Schroder House plans elevations sections axonometrics to scale 2147i03
18110601 GAUA grid architecture plans working compilation 2429i274
18110601 YounghanChung Floating Cubes Cheongju
19110601 GAUAsect10 plans model work Courthouse Plus Ultra Sober House 1 models 2429i388
20110601 Stein de Monzie Villa à Garches Weissenhof Siedlung Single House Weissenhof plans elevations 2150i10
20110602 Villa Baizeau plans elevations section 2154i03
20110603 Three Composition Maison Canneel Villa Savoye plans elevations 2155i05
21110601 Museum of Architecture Venice model work 2245i25
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