2000.07.17 11:44
3 things architecture (websites) should do
...the question is: how can quondam (as a museum of architecture) be something that a real museum of architecture cannot be?
2000.07.17 15:01
Re: 3 things architecture (websites) should do
I'm interested in provideing a place for content, especially content that can't be gotten anywhere else. The look is incidental, and changes at my discretion.
040717a Gooding House facade model c
040717b Good-Bye House model perspective 2345i02
07071701 Le Corbusier plans 2140i05
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2012.07.17 14:20
koolhaas' Junkspace
...your answer is a masturbatory game itself, and has nothing to do with the foundations of Post-Modern Architecture.
Here's one better answer, from a lecture given by Robert Stern, February 18, 1975:
"...Diversity, heterogeneity, even eclecticism can now be spoken as the watchwords of post-modern architecture.
A confluence of events seems to mark this movement from the exclusionist neoclassicism of the late 1950s--still with us today in the work of such firms as Skidmore, Owings & Merrill--to the more inclusive, contextual, sometimes even ad-hoc work of the Venturis, Charles Moore, Aldo Giurgola, and their followers, among whom I number myself.
The so-called post-modern architecture of this group is now coming into its own style--or at least as an attitude, shedding its negative, anti-establishment tone and growing self-confident with its point of view. While not exactly a new establishment, it can be claimed to be, for the moment at least, a kind of institutionalized counterculture.
Before attempting to explain post-modern architecture I would like to make clear that the term post-modern is, in my mind at least, not a proper critical or art historical term at all but simply a convenient description for an attitude which I believe to be emerging and valid. This attitude can be described as cultural and historical inclusiveness; and as such it opens up for discussion the fundamental tenets of what for fifty years or more has been regarded as the Modern Movement in architecture."
Your answer is probably better aimed at what Peter Eisenman, in 1975, labeled as his position--"post-functionalism" See the opening of Stern's 1981 "Notes on Post-Modernism" for the full story.
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2012.07.17 17:06
koolhaas' Junkspace
Again from Stern's "Notes on Post-Modernism"...
By post-modern, I believe Eisenman really meant anti-Modern Movement; moreover, I think he hoped it might also be against the Western humanist tradition. But as I hope to demonstrate, and as I see it, the term postmodern really describes a condition that comes after and is in reaction to the Modern Movement, and attempts to effect a synthesis between it and other strains of the Western humanist tradition.
If you look at the architecture that subsequently became the foundation of Post-Modern Architecture, you indeed do see a synthesis between the Modern Movement and other (older and/or concurrent) strains of the Western humanist tradition.
Conversely, Junkspace is not a synthesis, but rather a by-product, an undesigned residue paradoxically emanating from our ever-expanding (overly?) designed built environment. Junkspace is there although no one specifically designed it, yet it might not be there so much if designers weren't so intent on designing everything[?].
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13071701 mesh surfaces clean wireframe cubed 2403i08
13071702 Almost Semiquincentennial House working models 2426i01 b
13071703 Almost Semiquincentennial House plan model persectives 2426i02
15071701 Market Street East Development Dresdner Bank legacy Pantheon Paradigm plans 2263i06
15071702 Market Street East Development Dresdner Bank legacy Pantheon Paradigm existing buildings plans models 2263i07
15071701 Barozzi Veiga Archetypes Venice
18071701 Palace of Versailles and Park working plans image 2092i34
18071702 Great Pyramids Temple of Horus AEG Turbine Factory Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti Olivetti Headquarters Milton Keynes Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Casa da Musica GAUA plans 2060i21
18071703 REMs perspectives from 000105d 2470i18
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19071701 Palazzo Riccardi plans section elevation 2480i30
19071702 Hameau de le Reine site plan plans section elevation 2480i31
19071703 Cologne Cathedral plans section elevation 2480i32
19071704 San Spirito plans section elevation 2480i33
19071705 Great Stupa plans section elevation 2480i34
21071701 iiq06 model work Battery Park City 249ai03
21071702 iiq06 Notre-Dame de Paris model opaque working data 249ai04
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