2016.04.13 11:20
Los Angeles, the Industrial City
Reminds me of a "road trip" I took through Northeast Philadelphia almost 17 years ago:
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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.
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2016.05.14 08:40
Artist Daniel Buren spruces up Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton with colorful intervention
Museumpeace
1999.05.27
acrylic and gesso on bentwood chair
33.75 x 28.75 x 24.5 inches
no opposition here
2002.02.01 10:42
Patrick,
I am not opposed to your introduction here of the word/concept appose. Certain definitional phrases in Webster's Third International Dictionary (1969) for appose and apposition provide the solidity of your case:
apply (one thing) to another
deposition of successive layers upon those already present (as in cell walls)
When Nero reenacted the Triumphal Way, he did it with much apposition, probably even controversial apposition (but I doubt anyone opposed). He changed the traditional route, had elephants breaking down part of the city wall--you know, the basic kinds of stuff that Nero is (in)famous for.
The concept of appropriation is very much utilized by artists, and perhaps even more by art historians when they analyze a lot of contemporary art. I don't recall having previously read about the concept of apposition relative to art, and to the activity of artists, till your letters here. As far as I'm concerned, you may have introduced something original, or you may have introduced the concept by actually utilizing the concept itself via your introduction, meaning you may have apposed someone else's prior introduction of the concept of apposition relative to art. In either case, what you write has a refreshing truth to it.
My own artistic oeuvre falls largely within the realm of appropriation, but now I see that much of the same artwork works even better within the realm of apposition. While you may not know it, www.museumpeace.com is named for a truly appositional work of art, viz. a bentwood Gehry chair that I painted over (in 1999) with acrylic and gesso in a slapdash manner. Museumpeace [the rare, one-of-a-kind chair] does not appropriate Gehry, rather it apposes Gehry. For appositional [Lauf] art that you can see now, go to www.museumpeace.com/20 and choose any of the Versace Trophy Tattoo...
...links in the middle of the list. I uploaded these images as part of "Theatrics Times Two, too" yesterday. Not until I read your last letter this morning, actually not until writing this letter now did I realize the correctly defined nature of these works. Thanks.
Steve
These days it's all about appropriating and apposing late Picasso...
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2016.05.16 12:44
Julia Louis-Dreyfus + Terry Gross replace Kevin Spacey as AIA keynote speakers
...how exactly has architecture always been about identity?
2016.05.16 17:21
Julia Louis-Dreyfus + Terry Gross replace Kevin Spacey as AIA keynote speakers
So if something expresses values, traditions, purpose, hierarchy, beliefs, aspirations, etc., then it's always been about identity? Who are you trying to kid?
2016.05.20 19:18
OMA's hyper Corb
2003.02.27 11:02
Museum Collecting Point One: Monument Hysterique.
Ms. Curious:
"So what do you do?"
Mr. Nimiety:
"I collect museums."
The LACMA Project will be sited somewhere within Ichnographia Quondam Sector 51. Perhaps as an extension of the Palace of Versailles or as replacement of the Philadelphia Museum of Art or maybe someplace Piranesian.
2016.06.26 10:47
Inga Saffron calls BIG's new Navy Yard building "mesmerizing", "reminiscent of a Richard Serra sculpture"
Saffron's evocation of "a Serra sculpture" . . . nice. I've experienced a large Serra sculpture only once--circa 1993, Gagosian Gallery, New York--it was like two of the above facades facing each other, maybe 30% of the size. I remember feeling it was like being within or standing beside the hull of a very large ship. Is this new office building now subliminally contextual of the site's past? Isn't there even something like a giant periscope inside?
2016.06.26 11:05
Inga Saffron calls BIG's new Navy Yard building "mesmerizing", "reminiscent of a Richard Serra sculpture"
And, if anyone goes to visit this building, make sure you also check out the SS United States, docked a bit further up the Delaware River. I wonder, did Ingels do that? In any case, it's certainly a sight to behold. (I live with someone that celebrated their first birthday on the SS United States as they were sailing from Europe to America.)
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