working title museum | the architecture of being... virtual fog |
Wind high all night, morning some NW clouds; Therm. 28 rose to 32. Sun shone and the surface of the ground where his rays fall thawd considerably. Having myself fitted a new ____ to my ________ last _____ (the old one being lost by _______). What exactly are the indicators that "increas[ing] the value (in all senses) of architecture within the general culture" will indeed lead to architects being paid better? Thus I’d now like to (step back) and address what might just be your real intent, that being to elevate the value of architecture within general culture. The point being to create something that “the public” can relate to, consume, and hopefully even be inspired by--essentially putting ideas into people’s mind via fiction. This leads me to be very suspect of any analysis of suits that is based on what suits are being worn of TV--it's no different than analyzing suits by looking at what suits are being advertised (by the suit manufacturers/designers) in other media. Granted, most of the people that wear designer (label) clothes think they are advertising their own (so-called) good taste, but that's not really what's being advertised (at the same people's expense, no less). To further confuse the issue, see pages 56-58 of The Language of Post-Modern Architecture--interesting theory of movie star homes being "the most influential in popular taste." Diederichsen's review overall hinges on the polemics(?) of an artist being both inside and outside the art (history) realm. Yes, but, is Gehry actually being Gehry? You asked: "What are others thoughts on the United States not being involved in future World's Fair events?" And what I wrote above are indeed my thoughts "on the United States not being involved in future World's Fair events." My response is not aimed at World Fair events; it is a response to "the United States not being involved in future World's Fair events." In preparation for a forthcoming Quondam exhibition of "The Philadelphia School," just yesterday I began (re)reading Scully's Louis I. Kahn (1962) where we see Kahn's early 1920s Beaux Arts architectural education being somewhat of a hindrance during the 1930s and 1940s, but then significantly informing the beginnings of his mature design work from the 1950s onward. "That is, I wasn't interested in the side of being a young, single woman, experienced--I had been married already--and of interest to a range of different people on the faculty and around." "I thought I was being invited to dinner to talk about Le Corbusier, and I discovered that that wasn't his agenda." "In other words, if I got invited for dinner by Stonorov, who had a wife, and I thought I was being invited to talk about Le Corbusier and architecture, and I found that that probably wasn't what he had in mind--what he had in mind, I would not let become very explicit." I think that's the base appeal of participating within online discourse--the very real potential of what you do/think/say being seen/heard by many. In terms of ethicality, what tammuz is suggesting is that the process that is said to be used is not what is actually being done. In a sense, tammuz is asking whether the practitioners of "parametricism/emergent architecture" are being true to themselves, and in turn being true to the rest of the architectural community. Does not being untrue to oneself and the community at large harbor an ethical dilemma? I'd blame the competitive, fearful-of-not-being-relevant-or-avant-garde-enough academic environment before I'd blame the students themselves. Otherwise, if I am not interested in the library being a productive piece of environmental technology, does that me I won't be needing bomimetics? You and noubtree are good at being dismissive, but not at all good at saying anything of substance. My intention is not to discount at all what you first said about mimicry, and it looks like I too am guilty of not being true to the metaphor. being restless, I continued to read more of The Possibility of Absolute Architecture. "But too, this sort of design imperative is quite different from the Mechanism (i.e.: sub category being some neo Positivism, perhaps post Structuralism) which supports Piranesi's atomism of Rome." "The most important thing I can remember being said about it was from Jerry Wells: "Who could read it? Isn't it in Japanese?"" As to the "problem" of "exciting ideas" never getting developed due to being brightly spotlighted and then quickly moved on form, perhaps this 'trendy' behavior too is a form of reenactment, that is, a repetitious renewal, the continual process of putting on a new hat, but always putting on a hat nevertheless. "The critique reads backwards from what seems natural, obvious, self-evident, or universal, in order to show that these things have their history, their reason for being the way they are, their effects on what follows from them, and that the starting point is not a (natural) given but a cultural construct, usually blind to itself." "The critique does not ask “what does this statement mean?” but “where is it being made from?" "There is a classic story about Carles Enrique Vallhonrat, a principal in Kahn's office and then chairman of the school, who upon being called up by Progressive Architecture for an interview responded: "Progressive Architecture? I don't think I know that magazine. . . . No, we don't give interviews."" Hence, I'll tell you what it's like being in My Architect, albeit from the fourth dimension. Yes, when I wrote last week about Venturi now being retired, I knew it had to be recent news, but I wasn't sure if it was breaking news. Without ever expressly saying so, Rodell’s “thesis” boils down to being very much about deterritorialization. Yet there is also the notion that the evidence of Venturi’s influence on Kahn is more circumstantial than substantial, a simultaneous ‘there’ and ‘not there’, again a quite deterritorialized state of being. SR: Do you think anyone can be identified as being responsible for it? SR: Dr. Brownlee was talking about a couple of things he thinks of as being characteristic of the ‘Philadelphia School.’ ...the 7 1/2 floor of being John Malkovich--well, if that’s not the movie of deterritorialization and reterritorialization I don’t know what is! Now’s the time to start imagining a new twisted movie--being Louis Kahn. ...is clearly derived from the light cylinders of Kahn’s Mikvek Israel Synagogue, to the point of being almost an homage. Is electromagnetic architecture that architecture which strives toward being the most efficient and sustainable? I do not see the body as a metaphor for architecture, rather I see the physiological operations of our body--metabolism, assimilation, fertility, osmosis, electromagnetism, etc.--as also being the imaginative operations of our mind. I simply see the way that DNA informs our body how to assimilate, metabolize, osmosify, electromagnify, etc., as being the same way our DNA informs our mind to assimilate, metabolize, osmosify, electromagnify, etc. I can now also better imagine what someone might look like after being constipated for over thirty-five years. "In November the two travel the Las Vegas strip, from casino to casino, being alternately “appalled and fascinated” by what they see." What makes the majority of the posts and comments strange is that so much is taken for granted on both sides, plus, I even assume most here wouldn't even know how to express what it is that is being taken for granted. "1. The six churches of which the plans are here given, nos. 1 to 6, are thus grouped at Bologna, under the title St. Stephen, the church no. 1, however, being more particularly dedicated to the saint." "It is a kind of poverty that is being proposed." |
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