 
Horace Trumbauer, Whitemarsh Hall (Wyndmoor, PA: under construction, 1917.12.26)
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2000.12.26
Learning from Lacunae
...introduce new mysteries while solving old ones.
2004.12.26 12:20
Re: cityscape collage
It started more than eight years ago when it was realized that Hadrian's Tomb and Logan Circle share the same circular footprint. Then, about two years ago, it was realized that ancient Rome's axis of life, as delineated by Piranesi, and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway share the same length and design articulation, with again Hadrian's Tomb and Logan Circle being the key register.
Now delineation of the 'bilocalopolis' begins. The Tiber and the Schuylkill flow through the cityscape. Augustine's tomb and City Hall have their similarities. Rome's Corso is now the same as Broad Street, the longest cardo in the world. X marks the spot of the first Gothic camp outside the walls of Rome and the no-man's land of the Vine Street Expressway interchanges.
I wrote something on 16 December 2004 which turns out to be a succinctly worded culmination of over 10 years of investigation, and also the touchstone for a finally foreseeable catharsis.
06121601 IQ Berlin Museum Insel plan 2120i22
06121602 IQ Berlin Museum Insel model 2360i21 b
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2008.12.26 12:37
pragmatists turning political?
AZP from the Berlage lecture
top: flat horizontal, permeable, social mobility, handling flows, movement
UN Studio, Yokohama Port Terminal, 1994
I'm wondering whether a hyper-envelope can deliver a hyper-politicization.
some coincidental reading from earlier this morning...
"Vico's own approach to this new science was by way of a new theory of knowledge. The first clear trace of this appears in his inaugural oration of 1708 comparing ancient and modern methods of study. The moderns have instituted great improvements in the physical sciences, but have unduly depreciated those studies whose matter depends on the human will and therefore involves vicissitude and probability--languages, poetry, eloquence, history, jurisprudence, politics."
AZP's language does slide easily (to other projects), and that is because much of it is at base a typological analysis.
AZP's language also slides easily from (historical) formal analysis to prescriptive methodology.
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14122601 Courthouse with Garage 1100x550 plan 2160i00
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14122605 Institute of Contemporary Art 1100x550 plan IQ08 224ai03 b
14122606 Institute of Contemporary Art 1100x550 plan ICM IQ08 224ai04 b
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15122601 House for a Skateboarder schematic model Ury/Savoye site
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15122602 Ludi for Schinkel site plans
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15122603 Good-Bye House site plans model
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15122604 Mikveh PMP site plans models Garden of Satire
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15122605 Mikveh PMP plans models Garden of Satire
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16122601 SO–IL Veiled Aegean Sea
18122601 JKMM Amos Rex Helsinki
19122601 GAUAsect10 base model work 2429i389
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