2016.05.09 09:35
Vanna Venturi House's new owner plans to preserve property
I seriously wonder whether it's really all that important for the Vanna Venturi House to be preserved "as it has been maintained thus far." This building is already so well documented and so well known by so many people that haven't even been there that preservation seems thusly to lose much of its point.
2016.05.09 19:32
Vanna Venturi House's new owner plans to preserve property
...right now I'm only thinking about the Vanna Venturi House, and not (yet) thinking of any broader implications. I just couldn't think of any real compelling reasons why it's important that the house remain preserved "as it has been maintained thus far." Can you think of any compelling reasons why it's important that the house remain preserved "as it has been maintained thus far?"
Or, let me put it this way: can you think of any compelling reasons why it's important that the house remain preserved "as it has been maintained thus far" that isn't based on somehow maintaining control?
Regarding documentation, the modern era itself could well be called the era of overwhelming documentation. Centuries old buildings are preserved primarily because they are among the relatively scant remains/documentations we have of past times. Conversely, the Vanna Venturi House is (literally) voluminously documented, indeed to the point where the documentation has a much more far-reaching influence than the building itself.
Personally, if it were my design, I'd make the working drawings of the house available for sale so that who ever wanted their own version of the house could actually build/have one. And it'd be preservation without control, because I'd like to see how different buyers might make changes or additions to the design to suit their own taste or needs.
2016.10.23 14:17
Tom Wiscombe redesigns the L.A. billboard (and is chosen over Zaha Hadid's proposal)
Interestingly, Blade Runner depicted Los Angeles in November 2019, and Blade Runner 2049 is set for release October 5, 2017. Too bad they probably won't be able to advertise the new movie the way things were advertised in the first movie. Or will they?
Actually, it'd be way cooler if they advertised the new movie the way things are advertised in the new movie!
"In the future, all advertisements will be spoiler alerts."
2016.10.25 21:48
Architectural Axiom/Statement Re-Writes
In the future, everyone will be large for fifteen minutes. --Andy Dandy
2017.01.02 20:32
1 January
Apparently, in the future, some very special doctors will tell me that my frontal and prietal lobes and my hippocampus often operate in the exact opposite way they're supposed to. To which I will then ask, "So, instead of mentally reenacting an experience, they enact something that hasn't happen yet?" To which the doctors will all give me the thumbs-up! Hence:
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2017.04.11 14:58
chairs, the future
OMA Kota Tua Jakarta 2014
Atelier Peter Zumthor LACMA Expansion Los Angeles . 2017
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1996.06.21
Immediately I think of the Strasbourg, Düsseldorf, Hurva composite building that I have created in 3d model form, and I would like to sometime in the future elaborate on how the composite is perhaps an analogous building.
1999.06.24 21:17
Perhaps sometime in the future all architects will come to realize that software which is "customization-friendly" is more valuable than software that is "user-friendly".
2000.02.16 10:54
quondam : once, at one time, formerly; at times, sometimes, once in a while; some day, one day (in the future)
2000.03.16
"I, Marcel Duchamp, sometime (drag) artist, fully INTEND for this urinal to stand as a monument to all those who gleefully piss their time away wondering about art, particularly art like this. In the future, everyone will piss for fifteen minutes."
2003.02.23 11:25
In the future, all reality will be recorded by a camera, because if it isn't captured by a camera, you can kiss that reality goodbye.
2003.07.13 15:39
Having now taken a closer look it is hard to say whether Koolhaas is smiling (or at least as close to a smile that Koolhaas can get to) because of Prada or because he just got to say on TV that perhaps in the future all architecture "will be embedded in a casino."
2003.09.16 18:15
"In the future, everyone will be in the spotlight."
2003.12.16 12:03
Quondamopolis city of once was in the future
2004.04.01
Sometime in the future, it would be great if art museums began exhibiting reenactments of the 'emporiums' that are site specific to the end of big museum exhibits.
2004.09.14
In the future, everyone will be infamous for 15 hours.
2004.12.01
in the future
everyone
will type
with three fingers
2005.02.01 11:12
"In the future, everything will be an advertisement."
2005.03.06 13:41
In The Future Everyone Will Have...
2006.04.24 13:03
"In the future, everything will be an advertisement [especially journalism?]."
2007.01.16 15:14
"In the future, everything will be an advertisement." Even minimalism.
2007.01.16
"In the future, everything (including what I wear) will be an advertisement."
2007.01.24
"In the future your whole life will be a phone call."
2007.02.19 21:04
"In the future, everyone will be a starchitect for fifteen minutes."
2007.08.19
"In the future everything will be a reenactment (in cyberspace?)."
2007.10.03 08:04
In the future, everyone will be a self link, with absolutely nothing to be sorry about. Self link architects will be all the rage, even.
2009.08.26 17:19
"In the future, all architecture will be post-modern for fifteen minutes."
2011.01.08 11:00
...a virtual museum of architecture
collecting
a project
curation
critique
institutional critique, even (perhaps a virtual museum is what a real museum cannot be)
voices
continually reshaped
agendas
globally readable
cada coda
architecture as the delivery of content
In the future, 15 years of hypercritique will be famous.
2012.05.16 11:08
"In the future, all the past (and even the present?) will be a fiction."
2012.08.14 15:22
“Trust me guys, in the future everybody will be watching a television show where everyone looks and acts just like us, and it will be called Mad Men.”
2012.12.30 13:05
In the future, everything will be a museum.
In the future, everything will be a Zeitgeist Museum.
In the future, everything will be a museum shop.
2013.05.23 09:59
(Although I very much doubt I'll personally get to see it, nevertheless) Could someone that inherits all of Quondam's 2D and 3D file data someday in the future decide to 3D print it all out and thus make an actual Museum of Architecture?!?
2014.02.03 09:47
"In the future, all education will be an advertisement."
"In the future, every generation will be defined by product placement."
2014.02.18 13:54
In the future, some world organization will survey every person on the planet with the question:
Outside of your own profession (if you have one), what profession is most effective at and/or most capable of improving your life?
After the results are published, architects the world over are outraged that their profession was never mentioned, not even once.
2014.06.03 12:23
"In the future, all museums will be an advertisement."
2014.07.11 17:22
Apparently, in the future, some very special doctors will tell me that my frontal and prietal lobes and my hippocampus often operate in the exact opposite way they're supposed to. To which I will then ask, "So, instead of mentally reenacting an experience, they enact something that hasn't happen yet?" To which the doctors will all give me the thumbs-up!
2014.09.05 16:35
In the future, interpretations of the Third Vatican Council will be famous for fifteen minutes.
2015.01.27 09:56
"Such a pattern of curves is wholly new in Wright's architecture and suggests all sorts of possibilities for the future."
Hitchcock, In the Nature of Materials
2015.05.24 13:33
"In the future everything (critical) will be self-published."
2015.09.28 21:52
[In the future,] Junky Architecture will no doubt be linked to accelerationism.
2015.12.03 19:13
In the future, all Gyms will be done in the Brutalist style.
2016.09.13 11:31
In the future, everything will be the same difference.
2016.10.23 13:50
"In the future, advertising will be in the eye of the beholder."
2016.10.23 14:17
"In the future, all advertisements will be spoiler alerts."
2016.10.25 21:48
In the future, everyone will be large for fifteen minutes.
in the future
discourse
problematics
framing
blndspots
latency
futurity
timliness
emergence
spatialization
temporization
syllogism
multiplicities
duration
differentiations
discontinuity
localization
ontology
morphous
simultaneity
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