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...there that I got to know and indeed love Leslie. I'll never forget the sound of her quick laugh, her red lipstick smile, and her abundant enthusiasm for all kinds of things, especially people. After I moved Arcadia back home, what I missed most were those mornings when it was just me and Leslie before Doug and Tony showed up. I realized it was really nice having Leslie's company all to myself, even if it was for less than half an hour a few times a week. Luckily, this loss of "Leslie time" was made up for when the two of us drove all the way straight through [from Philadelphia] to Savannah, Georgia, in the heat of the night, and we talked, and talked, and talked the whole way.
The last time I saw Leslie it was again just me and her. She had come to my house to collect the forgotten materials relative to art projects she had commissioned, but which never came to full fruition. We were both surprised at how much of "her" was stored within the flatfiles of my basement. Finally, all this stuff, especially the pictures of her with Rose and with Gus were going to be where they were supposed to be.
Before Leslie left, I asked if she would like to visit a sacred tree in nearby Tacony Creek Park. She said, "Sure." Since the 1990s Tacony Creek Park has become the site of what one might call your more ancient religious rituals, and it had been reported that charms and amulets were occasionally found around a rare quintuplet tree in the park. When at the tree, both Leslie and I admitted to not feeling anything special, but we admired the tree nonetheless.
A couple weeks later, I was reading about St. Barbara, the patron saint of architects, whose feast day is December 4th. Unfortunately, St. Barbara is one of those saints that most likely never really existed. There may not have been a St. Barbara, but I know there are others out there that are very much like what one might call a patron saint of architects. I was actually with such a person on December 4th 2000, and we spent some time that day looking at a sacred tree.
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Interestingly, it is Athanasius (twice disputed bishop) of Alexandria that first tells us of the Eustathius/Helena connection, and he was also a supporter of Eustathius.
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I've visited this small Bavarian town twice, first for four days during the summer of 1963, and on 6 January 1976--my brother was born there 10 January 1953.
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French, I was yesterday thinking of Villa Savoye as a museum, perhaps specifically a museum of Modern architecture even?
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The Anaesthetics of Architecture (especially chapter one: "Saturation of the Image") would be a whole lot more meaningful if the notion of reenactionary architecturism had been incorporated with Leach's other borrowed (mostly from Baudrillard) thinking.
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The 8 August anniversary date of Venturi's first arrival at Rome got me thinking. I opened my 1977 Italian study tour journal and it begins:
"August 8, 1977
Fully packed for Rome. Luggage weighs 33 lbs; I weigh 172 lbs. Leaving for New York with $107.00"
We arrived at Rome late 11 August.
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Do you think he was once (or twice) struck by lightning as well?
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Steven, you asked a very leading question that was very narrowly focused. I can't say that the writings of Venturi and Scott Brown made me think differently about architecture (having first read Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture while a sophomore in high school 1971-72), rather they just made me think more about architecture. Did the writings of V&SB allow me to go in new directions for design? No, CAD allowed me to go in a new direction for design, and it was CAD that allowed me to redraw Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius which ultimately lead to my thinking regarding St. Helena as architect and my thinking regarding reenactionary architecturism. It was Kahn that first lead me to the Ichnographia Campus Martius, however.
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And yet there is still homogenized thinking and teaching in architecture.
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There is a substantial overlap between the profession and academia in that both adhere to the same model of what a typical architect is and does. Both are largely adverse to "ad hoc" design or even vernacularism. Free thinking in either established situation is for the most part shunned.
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I read the article, but I can't say that it said anything that got me thinking further.
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If a product is consumed, doesn't that mean that it isn't there anymore? And, can you name the "so many successful ambiguous monuments?"
Maybe what you're really thinking about is disposable monumentality, which is kind of like reenacting "less is more."
And speaking of void, I have to now go watch Lost.
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note to self: Why am I suddenly thinking fan mail from some flounder?
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Thinking that others will actually get it might even be a perpetual mistake.
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More than anything, my last post was spurred on by my thinking about watching Minority Report and Vanilla Sky consecutively because almost a year ago I confused the one movie for the other, probably mostly because Cruise stars in both films, but also because both films blur the real and the virtual. I actually would like to now see both films simultaneously, and thinking of that yesterday then reminded me of The Man Who Fell to Earth, which led to a google image search, which led to the composition of my last post.
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Surprised because I spent some time yesterday thinking about della Francesca's The Baptism of Christ, which is the painting Dave used as formal/symbolic inspiration for his Art Historian's Study Center thesis design.
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