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Absence as Presence: Perhaps I've Been Too Harsh...

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Most of the catastrophes of the modern. Era are architecturally set.". The catastrophe is a. Perhaps I've Been Too Harsh. Hinking about my previous post on honesty in architectural design, and reading over some issues of the wonderfully produced Retrospecta. Lent to me by a colleague, I felt it necessary to follow up with some caveats. Actually just one slightly long-winded caveat. Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. 8212; Le Corbusier. Here's the c...

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Absence as Presence: Notes on Delirious New York I

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Most of the catastrophes of the modern. Era are architecturally set.". The catastrophe is a. Notes on Delirious New York I. Anhattanism — delerious urgency of isolation and automonument; enabled by and support by the grid. That is, brutal rationality which has become irrational — sanity which becomes, under repetition, insane. Century city — delirious and raucous expansion, growth for growth; expanded. Manhattanism; Manhattan as a model to overtake in leaps and bounds. Douala = Dakar = Dubai = Shenzhen.

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Absence as Presence: May 2008

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Most of the catastrophes of the modern. Era are architecturally set.". The catastrophe is a. Notes Taken On. (no. 1). Otes taken on a program for the 37 th. Seasonal recital of the Nancy Meehan Dance Company, May 17 th. NO CANON, NO FORM. NEW ART; CONSTANTLY CHANGING ART; ART AS CONSTANT CHANGE. CONSTANT CRITIQUE AS CREATION. IDEA V. PRODUCTION; TRANSLATION and EXECUTION. CONDITIONED RADICALISM = JUST A DIFFERENT SET OF EXPECTATIONS. JOHN CAGE IS NO LONGER REVOLUTIONARY. 0 thought this was a good idea.

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Absence as Presence: Just a couple lines on monumentality

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Most of the catastrophes of the modern. Era are architecturally set.". The catastrophe is a. Just a couple lines on monumentality. Monuments like Jefferson's or Lincoln's work in opposition to this rule, but that's only because they are immortalizing mythic figures and national narratives which surround and engulf those figures. So the scale and grandeur has to be there. Of course that's also an argument of historical context and mentality. The Lincoln memorial is actually a great example. Because on...

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Absence as Presence: January 2008

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Most of the catastrophes of the modern. Era are architecturally set.". The catastrophe is a. This blog is a place for me to try an old type of writing in a new type of atmosphere. I've carved out something of an identity for myself in other places, with other intents. This experiment is something else. It's not intended to be literary. I'll get around to it eventually, and work it into one of these essays. no promises as to when though.]. And what, after all, is. Le Corbusier, Vers une Architecture.

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Absence as Presence: April 2008

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Most of the catastrophes of the modern. Era are architecturally set.". The catastrophe is a. Perhaps I've Been Too Harsh. Hinking about my previous post on honesty in architectural design, and reading over some issues of the wonderfully produced Retrospecta. Lent to me by a colleague, I felt it necessary to follow up with some caveats. Actually just one slightly long-winded caveat. Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. 8212; Le Corbusier. Here's the c...

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Absence as Presence: March 2008

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Most of the catastrophes of the modern. Era are architecturally set.". The catastrophe is a. Critique 1 (or, My Gripe with the Columbia GSAPP). If this liberation had been taken in earnest there might be no problem. If, in the tenuous position of the void, architectural avante-gardists had proceeded intelligently, some truly wonderful things could have developed. Some indeed have, but the vast majority of new radical architecture being produced today has a sort of bland uniformity - exactly the c...Virtu...

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Absence as Presence: 1:1 Drawings

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Most of the catastrophes of the modern. Era are architecturally set.". The catastrophe is a. O, I snuck this link. To a smithsonian article in the previous post, but thought I really should point out some of the sweetness here:. A delicate web of finely engraved lines started to emerge. After carefully plotting the pattern, the answer became clear: it was a profile view of a column with the vertical dimension—the height of the column—reduced by a factor of 16. What it's all about – construction. I think ...

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Absence as Presence: Fragment: Architectural Linguistics I

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Most of the catastrophes of the modern. Era are architecturally set.". The catastrophe is a. Fragment: Architectural Linguistics I. Or was proceeding, perhaps. The rapid speed of urban development coupled with increasing globalization — rather the increasingly rapid realization of the implications of globalization as a fact — have called into question some ideological and methodlogical tenets.). With — the philosophical and analytical. The work must be reconstructed. Uestion: So, why is it that this work...