14 January

1825 death of George Dance (II)
1867 death of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
1874 death of Victor Baltard

Re: Target
1999.01.14 13:33     3747

Re: Speculations on transit & urban scale
1999.01.14     4017r

More Tedious Stuff (Design Process Type)
2001.01.14     3705g 3709i 3770d 3775c 4013j 4013k

Finding a Lost Piranesi
2002.01.14     e2607 e2907 e2909

Ambrose and Theodosius
2002.01.14     82/0390

Quondamopolis
2002.01.14     3142c 3730e 3770f 3789c

Re: FW: essay on gehry
2003.01.14 11:20     3770h 3791c

Re: elliptical fluency
2004.01.14 14:34     8210m

exurban interim
2007.01.14 17:25     3336l

'megalomaniac frustrated architect'
2009.01.14     e3009 3743k 3770x

7 Wonders (and a half) of POSTMODERN architecture?
2011.01.14 12:02     2236 2303 2345 2377 2378 2388 3331u 3705q 3710f 3713h 3749t 3771c 3775p 3777e

notes from "The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World"
2016.01.14     3702l


15011401   Steven Holl   Museum of Fine Arts



97011401 Ideal City Reenactment plans models perspective   3392ci01 2297i01   b   c


2001.01.14
More Tedious Stuff (Design Process Type)
Paul states:
This is where the "function" enters the genesis of the parti. Kahn spoke of "served" and "servant" spaces, of course. The secondary spaces are not "celebrated," but become embedded in "conceptual poché," which the parti diagrams as solid, leaving only the celebrated, or publicly experienced, spaces as "spatial figure." The figure-ground gestalt is fundamental to this basic design strategy, applied to urban design by Colin Rowe and his school, but derived from Beaux Arts practice.
Steve replies:
I don't see Paul's capsulation of Kahn's notion of "served" and "servant" spaces as altogether correct. Rather, it is more of a (convenient) pedagogical interpolation based on a hybridization of "served and servant" (Kahn) with "figure/ground" (Rowe). Two of Kahn's buildings that most manifest the "served" and "servant" notions are the Richards Medical Research Building (Philadelphia, 1957-60) and the Salk Institute (La Jolla, 1959-65). In both designs the "served" and the "servant" are each clearly articulated, and one could go so far as to say that it is more the articulation of the "servant" spaces that manifest the "served" spaces. Neither of these two buildings employs what might be described as poché.
I now wonder whether Paul's interpolation exemplifies a wider ranging interpolation throughout architectural academia since Kahn's practice, hence a not necessarily true interpretation /proliferation of Kahn's message /meaning vis-à-vis "served" and "servant". The notions of "served" and servant" are first to be applied to the program, i.e., the building program is divided into those spaces that serve and those spaces that are served. The form of the building then arises out of the articulation of both the "served" and the "servant", and the ultimate design is the integration and/or inter-relation of the two types of "spaces".
Perhaps the only slanted aspect of Kahn's notion of "served" and "servant" spaces is the underlying notion that some spaces are privileged while the other spaces are not privileged. And perhaps this is precisely where the misinterpretation of "served" and "servant" actually comes from. In reality, however, Kahn somehow managed to "privilege" virtually all the spaces of his buildings. [And perhaps it can be said that Kahn was therefore very good at working the mediocre.]
Just now I'm wondering whether the grammatical terms of "active" and "passive" might be an interesting extension of the served and servant notions, i.e., with served being the passive and the servant being the active. It might be interesting to sometimes analyze buildings by identifying those parts/spaces that are active (doing the acting) and those parts that are passive (being acted upon). This point of view might help alleviate the "privilege" factor.

050114a Romaphilia Parkway Interpolation   2348i12
050114b Romaphilia St. Peter's Square   2348i13


07011401 Acropolis Q model


09011401 IQ Philadelphia street grid  2419i04

2011.01.14 12:02
7 Wonders (and a half) of POSTMODERN architecture?
Charles Holland at Fantastic Journal:
b-sides
I'm currently involved in writing a book re-appraising architectural Post Modernism. It's top secret, hush-hush. Part of it contains a top ten of Po-Mo moments, which I realise makes it sound like a rather ugly box of chocolates. Anyway, now that the final mix has been agreed I thought I'd share a few of the ones that didn't make the final cut.
Anyway, here's a selection of 'id' moments:
Gooding House aka Weight-Watchers House
Ur-Ottopia House
Good-bye House Gooding Trice House
Gooding Trice Villa
Psycho-Suburban Poché
Alas, travels in Hyper Reality

the proverbial "are we there yet?"

14011401 House for K.F. Schinkel plans   2239i06


15011401 5233 plan 1100x550   2166i00


15011401   Steven Holl   Museum of Fine Arts


17011401 Museum of Knowledge model work   2185i20


20011401   Galerie Église plan elevation   2191i10
20011402   Villa à Garches plans elevation   2151i16
20011403   Villa à Garches 3rd floor plan work   2151i17
20011404   Victims drawbridge maze/labyrinth plans   225ki04


21011401   Experimental House plan sections working data   216ni02
21011402   domicile 1952 Pruitt-Igoe Housing Unité d'Habitation Fruchter House Experimental House Price Tower Monastery of La Tourette Robert Wiley House plans elevations   217ai15
21011403   Monastery of La Tourette plans section   2178i08
21011404   Margaret Esherick House plan model opaque only   2183i02
21011405   domicile 1959 Goldenberg House Margaret Esherick House plans elevation   2179i09
21011406   Vanna Venturi House Fisher House Milam House plans elevations   2182i09
21011407   Milam House plan elevation   2184i02




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