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So I then ask if this 'definition' must be broadened to include all built forms that once accompanied life and a life style, but over time have come to no longer do so. I am thinking of ancient ruins, be they Stonehenge, the Pyramids, the Parthenon, the cave temples of India, etc. These are commonly referred to as examples of architecture, yet today they are clearly "objects which are for perception only."
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Once I got Quondam online, a whole other range of issues began to arise: designing with HTML, the continual need for content, coming to terms with what others were writing and thinking about 'virtual architecture' or 'architecture in cyberspace,' does anyone even care about [my] architecture in cyberspace?
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As I walked up the Vatican Museum ramp that first (and so far only) time in 1977, I remember thinking, "Wow, this is just like the Guggenheim Museum."
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A number of the Inside Density participants, including myself, stayed at Brussels' Sun Hotel. As I result, I had the by-chance pleasure of twice sharing breakfast with Winka Dubbeldam.
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I very much question the widespread opinion that being able to design well is dependent upon being able to hand-draw well. Such thinking basically means that someone without the use of one or both hands could never be a good designer.
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I read through all that you 'voiced' at design-l, and I suppose what you've said may make some (academics) think twice.
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I often wonder what your thinking will be like when you are the age that I am now.
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That's why, when I look around at architecture from today and going back a few centuries, I don't so much see Modernist thinking and designing, but rather a lot of thinking and designing that is assimilating and/or metabolic.
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I don't see the logic or rational in thinking that any human operations come from anywhere but the body.
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In the end, it was simple astronomical observation that resolutely confirmed the Earth's position within the realm of 'true' reality, and, henceforth, appearance and reality became one. The heliocentric theory, therefore, successfully resolved a duality deeply rooted in human thinking, and, thus, instituted a new consciousness for humanity.
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Odd, I was just thinking about your Belgium Congo decapitation slide the other day.
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Haven't you noticed that by and large people don't like direct answers when it comes to design solutions? (I realize I'm potentially going out on a limb with that line of thinking.)
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I am especially thinking of how the temple of Janus sits at one of the ends (beginning?) of Piranesi's Triumphal Way, and this also gives ground to the backward/forward reversal notion.
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I then also found myself thinking that by and large architects are trained to be extremely intolerant of anything that doesn't 'fit' properly. Should the new schools of architecture be schools of tolerance?
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I'm thinking that 'play' fits perfectly with what I want to do with the collection.
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I agree that historians will never really know what an artist was thinking, and to that end whenever I analyze historically I try to give exact textual reference and/or make it clear that what I say is my opinion/interpretation (hopefully with some basis).
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I'd like to be on the record for proposing that in essence the Baroque involved: a) a bifucation of reality and illusion, b) pervasive mirroring (figuatively and literally), and 3) reality reenacting its own illusory mirror. For now I'm working on the premise that the combination of these three attributes is mostly unique to the Baroque. I am not asserting, however, that the artists of the Baroque were actively thinking about the combination of the three attributes when creating their works. I'm simply calling out a (distinct?) pattern that (for me at least) is there.
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Besides that 'august' lineage, what impressed my design thinking most was the issue of designing with respect to context, indeed I'd say that that notion was the touchstone of my entire formal architectural education.
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There is already work being done on Diptych: Architecture and Thinking Twice.
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I have never been to London, but I know the Sainsbury Wing fairly well via publications, plus, and here's the beginning of my point, I almost viscerally understand all the 'contextual' design idioms and eccentricities because they are, and the building as a 'whole' is, a consumate example of (questionally labeled post-modern) Philadelphian contextual architectural design thinking. I'm not suggesting that Philadelphia has some sort of propriety when it come to designing architecture contextually in the late 20th century, rather that there is a uniqueness to Philadelphia's 'brand' of contexturalism (indeed retrospectively related to Rowe's thinking, but clearly distinct nonetheless mostly because of Giurgola and Venturi who both taught at the University of Pennsylvania at the same time that Kahn taught there).
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