19 November

1812 death of Alfonso Giraldo Vergaz
1819 birth of Pierre Aynard Verdier
1895 death of Calvert Vaux

Knowlton
1997.11.19     1880

Re: def: Architecture
1998.11.19 10:26     3747

ideas
2004.11.19     3716f 3770j 4401d

the official sketch thread
2007.11.19 11:04     2254 3203b 3334f

Survey about modern architecture
2008.11.19 15:42     3332w
2008.11.19 15:55     3332w

The current state of Architecture Theory
2009.11.19 17:32     3331z 3705o 3710e 3720e 3730j 3749s 3771b

Quondam's Fifteenth Anniversary
2011.11.19 13:25     3331e 3703i 3720f 3743m 3771d 3811x 4017b lc58d

19 November
2013.11.19 11:46     3305x

Patrik Schumacher's Right-wing Agenda
2016.11.19 12:08     3314v
2016.11.19 17:41     3314v 3747s
2016.11.19 20:16     3314v

Only one student enrolled in a Yale course about women architects, despite grievances against poor representation
2016.11.19 17:58     3314v

Costela.Potenciano   Acqua Alta   Venecia

ADEPT   Marinehaus Museum   Berlin



2009.11.19 17:32
The current state of Architecture Theory
Computers are not competing with thinking.
For the sake of the argument here, computers greatly augment/assist instinctive/intuitive design thinking. Designing instinctually/intuitively (for example, Villa Savoye derivatives) doesn't mean you're designing without thinking.

2011.11.19 13:25
Quondam's Fifteenth Anniversary
"And we become these human jukeboxes, spilling out these anecdotes."
Six Degrees of Separation
As memory serves, I've only met her twice. Once at a bon voyage party and once at a small dinner. Both in late summer 1993 and both at the same house in Manayunk, Philadelphia. I was still standing in front of this large painting after Robert Venturi asked "Is this by someone?" "Yeah, me." She came up to me afterwards and said, "So you're the artist." Apparently she loved the painting.

She went on about it's sexuality and ambiguity, androgyny and juxtapositions, and I don't remember what else. Later, in the kitchen, I heard her pronouncing "Benjamin" in German and pronouncing "Barthes" like she just bit her tongue. I interjected, "You know Barthes said "laughter is a substitute for castration." She burst out laughing, and yelled over to her husband, "Barthes said laughter is a substitute for castration!" He did not laugh, and I think I know why.
Maybe like a month later, she dominated the conversation at the small dinner. There was lots of architecture talk. She or someone she knew was collecting all the latest in architectural jargon. "So what are some of the words?" She wouldn't (or couldn't) say. And then there was talk of the Italian Rationalists. "Don't forget Sartoris." "Oh! Sartoris! You know he's still alive!?" Towards the end, her husband said he'd like to do an in-depth study of VSBA's domestic architecture. "How about the Brant House Addition?" "Wow, now there's an obscure project."
[Lavin now calls it Kissing Architecture; Quondam has been calling it Appositions.]
Anthony Vidler was moving to LA, and the host of the party and dinner was moving to NYC. She got the host to sublet Vidler's NYC apartment.
2003.06.05 14:25
Re: Anthony Vidler on Gordon Matta-Clark
I spent an October 1994 weekend in Vidler's NYC/Chelsea studio apartment (a very restrictive space), while a large painting of mine, Taken Literally, 1992 spent over two years there--a friend of mine sublet the place when Vidler first started teaching in LA. Vidler spent at least one week living with the painting himself, and I've often wondered if he got all the art and architectural references. There's even a sliced portion of a building, but I didn't know of Matta-Clark back then.
It was in Vidler's apartment that I first saw The Architectural Uncanny, and, after seeing the chapter "Losing Face," it was indeed uncanny that a painting including a depiction of Schinkel's Altes Museum and Stirling's Museum for Nordrhein-Westfalen was hanging on Vidler's apartment wall at the same time. After reading "Losing Face", it turned out the analysis was still lacking, and, ultimately at Quondam, the face was put back on.
The last two chapters of The Writing of the Walls -- steps on the way to Quondam.
Most recently, it's too bad Vidler doesn't include Le Corbusier's International Planning Competition for Berlin in his analysis of Stirling's Roma Interrotta.
[Incidentally, every instance of Le Corbusier's Museum for Unlimited Growth is listed within Colomina's "The Endless Museum: Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe" (Log 15) except for the last instance, which is within the International Planning Competition for Berlin.]

15111901   museum compilation 22002 plans IQ   3392ui83   b   c


17111901   Costela.Potenciano   Acqua Alta   Venecia

18111901 IQ15s02 hyperarchitecturism plans model work   2468i30
18111902 IQ15s03 hyperarchitecturism UNEP Headquarters plans model work   2468i31
18111903 IQ15s03 hyperarchitecturism UNEP Headquarters plans model   2468i32   b


18111901   ADEPT   Marinehaus Museum   Berlin



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