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so what then is architecture?
naes 2003.06.26 20:19
Stephen,
I'm afraid I don't know who you are or what you've done. I've visited your web site; well I believe it to be your web site, www.quondam.com ?
Whets up? Besides being some sort of strange blog I don't see your point. Maybe some context please...
If you're truly interested in a serious conversation don't be afraid to lay it on the line and tell people what your thinking out right, cut the pretentious academia crap and name-dropping.
As far as an analogy between the body and buildings…
Certainly there are parallels, but to what gain? Nature, the human body, has developed by process of evolution. This means that something is only refined to the point of "just good enough". Shouldn't we strive for something better, something that is constantly refined and rethought? That's just my opinion.
so what then is architecture?
shell 2003.06.26 20:31
"Nature, the human body, has developed by process of evolution. This means that something is only refined to the point of "just good enough". "
I dont quite understand this. The body has evolved in conjunction with technology, science, all things prosthetic and extended as part of man this way. Evolution is on its own aspiring towards something greater and rethought. Arch, is it reflecting that same evolutionary essence? Not sure. Arch is becoming more an extension of the body these days rather than found shells to inhabit.
I would say caves were found shells man inhabited, we have gone through arch history and the recapitulation of these shells, the design of these shells, and only today are we truly incoporating arch into the body. through tech, through media, arch is much more a direct extension of our nervous system, mobile arch's become an etension of our bodies in motion.
the oasis is something we may be abandoning, for more self-designed incorporated shell features.
so what then is architecture?
Stephen Lauf 2003.06.26 20:51
shell, if Las Vegas is any indication, it hardly looks like the oasis is being abandoned.
naes, www.quondam.com, the first online virtual museum of architecture, has been around since November 1996. It's present manifestation is indeed without point beyond a display of what 2D CAD drawings are in the museum collection. Quondam continually changes, and, excluding those pages online now, there have been roughly 4000 web pages published by Quondam so far.
What have you done?
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