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2000.11.18
vehicles of symbolism?
Since beginning this "vehicle" film thread, it has dawned on me that when "vehicles [in films] are both very literal and very symbolic, and, moreover, it is the seamless transition from literalness to symbolism that the vehicles deliver," that this phenomenon is much akin to the notion of the medium simultaneously being the message.
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2009.11.18 11:31
The current state of Architecture Theory
It's not that "there really isnt meant to be any real thought there" but that "intellectual rigor" really isn't necessary to design architecture. In fact, it could well be asked: Does it really behoove us to mask our lack of depth and our inability to achieve real, effective, incisive strength in our work with intellectual nonsense? A lack of depth and an inability to achieve real, effective, incisive strength are not fixed with intellectual rigor, rather they are fixed via design rigor. The architectures of Zumthor, Predock and Chipperfield (for example) do not stand out because of their intellectual rigor, but because of their design rigor.
Yet design rigor isn't always necessary to create architecture either. Gehry's architecture exhibits a very high-grade design facileness, and maybe that is indeed something rare.
As for the "computer people", the various/sometimes architectures of Hadid and UnStudio (again for example) well demonstrate being beyond "figuring it out", and they're even doing it rigorously.
I'm not here trying to express my opinion, as much as I'm experimenting with establishing some kind of baseline for architectural theory to build upon. I am of the opinion, however, that honesty, or at least objective observations and assessments of present conditions, is a fair place to start.
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2009.11.18 13:40
The current state of Architecture Theory
Is it Eisenman's words, or Eisenman's designs that might of made the likes of UNStudio, FOA and Lynn possible?
14111801 Roma Interrotta Sector IV detail image attached at correct scale with selection of Stirling plans also at true scale 2216i12
15111801 Section House working model Governor's Palace elevation
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17111801 SANAA Public Housing Paris
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18111801 IQ15s01 hyperarchitecturism Analogous Museum of Architecture Complex Religious plans model work 2468i27
18111802 IQ15s01 hyperarchitecturism Analogous Museum of Architecture Complex Religious model work plans 2468i28
18111803 IQ15s01 hyperarchitecturism Analogous Building model not 1'=96' 3072 increments 2468i29
18111804 Santa Maria Assunta site plan plan elevations section perspective axonometric 2201i01
18111801 OMA Dior Exhibition Denver
19111801 iq20 Philadelphia/Camden model work 2093i110
19111801 smlxl Le Corbusier plans elevations 2153i03
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