2004.11.26 08:46
looks like the party’s already starting
A Party of Renaissance Personalities
note the exhibit ends 13 February 2005, the quondam feast of Saint Catherine de Ricci.
13 February 2004
13 February 2005 is the scheduled date of the Saint Catherine de Ricci and Louis I. Kahn presentation of "Reenactionary Bilocation Architecturism", while the Marcel Duchamp and C. Paul Jennewein presentation of "Nudist Camp at the Philadelphia Museum of Art" is set for 20 March 2005. Since Bronzino's Portrait of Cosimo I de'Medici as Orpheus is a key part of "Nudist Camp..." a bilocation of both papers would make a better reality.
2004.11.29 15:40
Eutropia's dates
12 November 328 death of Eutropia
12 November 2004 death of open exchange at design-l
(manifest by a Maximian [husband of Eutropia] reenactor)
26 November 248 birth of Eutropia
26 November 2004 birth of design-l.v2
Re: common history should be rewritten as our-story
Or are Eutropia's birth and death dates inverted?
2004.11.30 08:55
a month of eros et thanatos
30 October
1994 world's largest building implosion at Sears Northeast Distribution Center Philadelphia
2 November
1755 birth of Marie Antoinette
3 November
1949 death of Solomon Guggenheim
4 November
1935 birth of Manfredo Tafuri
5 November
1913 Otto King of Bavaria deposed
1999 death of Colin Rowe
9 November
1778 death of Giovanni Battista Piranesi
11 November
1976 death of Alexander Calder
1994 beating of Eddie Polec
12 November
328 death of Eutropia
1929 birth of Princess Grace of Monaco
1994 death of Eddie Polec
13 November
354 birth of St. Augustine
17 November
1944 birth of Rem Koolhaas
20 November
284 Diocletian proclaimed emperor at Nicomedia
1920 birth of Ian McHarg
21 November
1811 suicide of Heinrich von Kleist
26 November
248 birth of Eutropia
27 November
450 death of Galla Placidia
28 November
1899 birth of Frances Amelia Yates
30 November
1994 suicide of Guy Debord (shot himself in the heart)
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2004.11.30 09:19
Re: Painting....officialy completed?
The people who buy your paintings aspire to Architectural Digest?!? You poor thing. Casa Vogue is a must for my collectors!
2004.11.30 10:36
Re: text: Chtcheglov
"Chirico remains one of the most remarkable architectural precursors. He was grappling with the problems of absences and presences in time and space. We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel. More precisely: although the quality of the impression generally remains indefinite, it nevertheless varies with the nature of the removed object and the importance accorded it by the visitor, ranging from serene joy to terror. (It is of no particular significance that in this specific case memory is the vehicle of these feelings; I only selected this example for its convenience.)"
cf.
at the Altar of Peace
fore and aft as well
"Maria, has Chtcheglov died yet?"
2004.11.30 14:13
Museumpeace....officially updated
navel gazing
double take
just finished lunch, actually
two heads better than one
sell sell sell
decency
obsession
1890.12.02
birth of C. Paul Jennewein
1891.12.02
birth of Wilhelm Heinrich Dix
2004.12.03 11:14
Re: Big Boxing
What is the history of the open-web joist? When was this structural floor/roofing element first used? Big Box architecture depends a lot on the open-web joist, doesn't it?
Ancient Rome had lots of (grain) warehouses in the south-west(?) along the Tiber.
I was said that one could traverse the entire Campus Martius under roof cover because of the many public porticus there. Each porticus had a different name and raison d'ętre, sometimes even shopping. No open-web joists, but lots of columns, e.g., the Hecatonstylon--hall of a hundred columns
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2004.12.04 20:31
Re: "Do We Still Live in a Real World?"
As the Stotesburys began to entertain more often, Lord Joseph Duveen convinced Mrs. [Eva] Stotesbury that her "petit palais" no longer suited the grand dimensions of their new life. It was then that Mr. Stotesbury purchased 300 acres outside Chestnut Hill to build what would become known as Whitemarsh Hall. To build the estate, consisting of 146 rooms, took $3 million dollars and three years.
2004.12.07 12:13
Re: Fwd: phrasing
A (significant) part of me wishes design-l v2 never happened. I was beginning to see the benefits of design-l v1's closure. [Closure overall is an attribute that mostly eludes the basic operations of my life's work. I revel in incompleteness, thus any real closure manifests a (subliminally) longed-for relief. Maybe I really am closer to more dead people than to live ones.] And yes I'm still laughing.
How many times have I already said "Design-L is perhaps the most remarkable discourse to have emerged in 20th c. architecture?" You can count the times in the design-l archive. I think Anand is possibly plagiarizing what I said first. [No surprise to me at least. My ideas soak deep, like into sponges.]
Dishonesty is the real malfunction. I'm not dishonest, I'm the spoil-sport.
For many centuries now, Eutropia celebrates her deathday (12 November) withnPope Martin I (saint and martyr--feastday 12 November). He died in exile because wouldn't agree with an imperial law of silence which was to shut down all discussion regarding the heresy that denied that Christ had a human will--Monothelism. [Perhaps I will start meditating on Christ as the embodiment of divine and human willfulness.
55 years ago today my mother's name was read aloud over the radio in Germany with the name of all the others that were newly arriving 'home' from Soviet labor camps. My father and grandmother told me about hearing it, and now I'm crying.
PRIORITY IS QUONDAM as in priority once was?
So many highlights of 2004 to remember, like being instrumental in getting Herbert Muschamp more silent. Oh the energy of sweet irony. And the great column of fire 13 February. Are they still camping at Mount St. Helens waiting for the next big blast? [Did you know Jim Williams restored (mostly with his own two hands) what might just be the oldest house on St. Helena Island, SC?] But there's still more to come, not least Silvester's and Melania's always last minute party.
I'm laughing again, as per usual.
2004.12.07 13:03
Re: Fwd: phrasing
Thus, a defeat completely described, said Lauf, is indistinguishable from victory.
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2004.12.07 13:48
African Art, African Voices
from theartnewspaper.com:
African Art, African Voices at the Philadelphia Museum of Art October 2, 2004 - January 2, 2005
Discover African art from an insider's perspective at The Philadelphia Museum of Art as 200 works - from carved masks and a rare royal throne room to contemporary art and photography - are brought to life through a compelling blend of music, video, and an insightful free audio tour.
Don't miss African Art, African Voices on view through January 2nd. For more information visit www.philamuseum.org.
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I went through this exhibit rather quickly two Friday's ago. I have to go back, but so far what I enjoyed the most was a video of a present day funeral(s) in Ghana, where the departed are buried in coffins that are simulations of recognizable objects, like the multi-purpose screwdriver coffin in the video and the Mercedes Benz limo coffin on display. I was thinking "before I go, make sure I'm a Ghanor." Julian Abele, the black architect who was Trumbauer's chief designer and highly instrumental in the design of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, tries to visit the exhibit daily. He's often sitting right there on the throne.
2004.12.07 17:35
unzipping the design-l archive, etc.
Gordon Matta-Clark is enjoying himself 'anarchitecting' within the heavy dreck of the 113 MBs of the unzipped design-l archives text files. Thank goodness, for he was beginning to worry that he might not have enough to say/do when presenting 'Learning From Lacunae' at the forthcoming Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club Convention.
"What have you found so far, Gordon."
"Well, it's kind of interesting that Lauf first posted at design-l in August 1998, and then the last post of August 1998, a forwarded message sent by Brian Carroll, ends with "For an application please write or call Travis McDonald, Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, P.O. Box 419, Forest, VA 24551"
"Why the hell is that interesting?!?"
"Well, it turns out that Lauf and McDonald spent the summer of 1978 together working for the Historic American Building Survey in Perry, Missouri. In fact, they were roommates the whole summer."
Weird! I just received a phone call from Cardinal Dougherty High School asking me for some money. I told them "Not yet." Alas, Eva found Dennis to be a pitiful husband (with too much desire for 'unearthly' pleasures), and has thus decided to renew her vows with Ned right after she finishes her paper with Marie Antoinette and Ludwig on 18 January 2005, King of Prussia Day and indeed Ned and Eva's wedding anniversary. FYI, King of Prussia became German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles, and that's when Otto, who witnessed this change of power realized he was becoming seriously ill.
"Oh. Why that's extremely interesting! [Gosh, who does Otto think he's kidding?] I'm sure Thomas will want to know all this too. I have to call him up anyway, for some money for the convention."
"Great. Tell him to tell Sally hello."
"Oh, didn't you know? She's been hangin' with Julian at the Art Museum."
"I didn't know that. I should pay more attention to the real world."
"Ha! Just keep digging, Gordon."
"Could you pass me the chain saw now?"
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2004.12.09 09:05
Re: Ruins of Modernity
"What matures quickly, also ages quickly."
--Fr. Magee, religion teacher at Cardinal Dougherty High School, 1973.
2004.12.09 09:24
Re: a month of eros et thanatos
Ledia Carroll from MIT wrote me that she was glad I posted "a month of eros et thanatos" and asked me where is it from. I replied:
It is from The Odds of Ottopia, the novel I'm virtually writing throughout 2004 at www.quondam.com.
see "Eros et Thanatos Ichnographia Campus Martius" too.
2004.12.11 10:49
Re: Fwd: phrasing
At archinect/forum the question was:
Recently a friend asked me this weird question, so I thought I would pose it in this forum: "When was the last time you were truly happy...and for what reason?"
to which I answered:
It was somewhat fleeting, but.... On 21 November 2004, I and Tony, an architect/artist friend, were going through Briar Hill during the last day of its salvage sale. Briar Hill was a (unknown to us) Georgian mansion by Horace Trumbauer. The experience of going through Briar Hill with workmen crawling all over it, taking it apart, deconstructing the building, was very remindful of the days back when I was in high school where frequent visits to Whitemarsh Hall, the then derelict 'Versailles of America' too was a Trumbauer designed mansion in the midst of deconstruction. Afterwards, in the parking lot before we left in our respective cars, Tony and I talked about the afternoon's experience, and then it suddenly dawned on me that it was the 8th anniversary of Quondam - A Virtual Museum of Architecture online. I was then very happy to have spent the day in some significant architecture that was most definitely soon to be quondam.
2004.12.11 17:13
Re: happy
And now the gangs openly discussing the design of a new United Nations Headquarters in Palestine.
2004.12.14 16:11
Re: where the Barnes might move to
The site for the Barnes Foundation on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway has just been chosen--site of the present Youth Study Center (euphemism for juvenile jail), across 20th Street from the Free Library of Philadelphia, designed by Horace Trumbauer and soon to be appended by a Moshe Safdie addition. The proposed Calder Museum by Tadao Ando on the south side of the Parkway will be across from the Barnes.
I'm pretty sure the radio newsman said that a "replica" of the present Barnes Foundation (a design by Paul Cret) will be built on the Youth Study Center site of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Gosh, just what the Parkway needs, another reenactment.
2004.12.15 10:51
Re: where the Barnes might move to
2 January 1872 Albert Barnes born in Kensington, a working-class Philadelphia neighborhood; 1466 Cook Street (now Wilt Street).
made lots of drug money.
24 July 1951 Albert Barnes died in an automobile accident at age 78.
Learning From Nudist Camp
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