2005.06.08 10:30
Re: Daniel Birnbaum on The Ister - Unbekannt
I actually have Danube-Schwabian blood running through my veins, ie, I'm a direct decendent of people that moved their whole lives by raft-barge from Schwaben to Yugoslavia (and Romania) in the 1780s. My mom was even born on a day the Danube broke it's banks.
2005.06.08 11:49
any arthistory majors/undergrads?
I never actually 'majored' in art history, but I did (and still do) a lot of art history reading. I can't say how it specifically helps architecture studies/work, but it definitely makes you a smarter person. Even if you're not a 'major', at least visit your university library's art department often, e.g., the N405.W5x section is art exhibition catalogues--lots and lots of delicious mind and eye candy. Also, it's not just the old stuff--contemporary art history is full of untapped architectural inspirations. Really, just get used to enjoying it all.
2005.06.08 15:55
gay architects
I think Rudolph's architecture would make a fun study while consideing his sexuality--"Brutalism" as sado-masochism, fancy-dress balls, etc. Do you think maybe he was a power bottom?
I don't think his homosexuality went all that unnoticed though. It certainly doesn't appear to have escaped Stirling's notice.
2005.06.08 16:09
any arthistory majors/undergrads?
You know, it might actually be that art lags behind architecture. I'm not in a position to get into any specifics right now, but let me at least make the suggestion that it is most likely easier for an architect to pick up art history to some depth than it is for an artist to pick up architecture history to some depth.
Like I say, I'm just making a suggestion.
2005.06.08 16:44
wright is google logo ...
So what's Google gonna do next month--8 July is Philip Johnson's 99th birthday. For sure the googlely eye glasses, but what else?
2005.06.08 21:10
An Observation of Contradiction
Good architecture does not come into being without good architectural designers. Same goes for "theory"--good architectural theory does not come into being without good architectural theory designers.
This doesn't mean, however, that a good architectural designer is automatically also a good architectural theory designer, and vice versa.
Similarly, there are good visionaries and there are bad visionaries, and either type of visionary is relatively rare, as in adopting a visionary view does not make one a visionary as well.
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2005.06.09 13:14
archinect crushes
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, please don't fall!"
Hey, like 3ifs said, Rita [Novel] is the bomb!
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2005.06.09 17:17
archinect crushes
"Is it live or is it Memorex?"
2005.06.11 16:05
Trumbauer architecture and LIVE 8, etc.
Live 8 Philadelphia stage the evening of 1 July 2005
While the Philadelphia Museum of Art (of which Horace Trumbauer and Julian Abele are two of its architectural designers) will be the backdrop to LIVE 8 Philadelphia, it should also be noted that the Washington Monument within Eakins Oval at the end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (where I think the LIVE 8 stage will be) is Horace Trumbauer's earliest design on record (1890).
The Free Library of Philadelphia at Logan Circle on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway is likewise a Horace Trumbauer design.
Helena is busy working on her paper "Pilgrimage, Reenactment and Tourism" which she will present at the Washington Monument within Eakins Oval 18 August 2005. She assures Otto that the Papal events in Rome this past April and LIVE 8 are indeed the culminating points of her paper.
And don't forget "Creating One's Own Virtual Museum of Architecture" will be presented by Richard Krautheimer and Philip Johnson on 7 July 2005 within the enormous subterranean arched vaults of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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2005.06.10 11:26
your favorite buildings/projects, built and unbuilt
My first ah-ha! moment happened like 45 years ago.
2005.06.13 16:12
Brideshead Revisited
I want Joanna Lumley to play the new Lady Marchmain!!!
2005.06.14 14:24
Any Interest in a Novel About a Gay Architect in 1890?
King Ludwig II of Bavaria died yesterday 119 years ago. Royal architecture was his legacy.
My (quondam) laptop was 'abducted' late 11 June (like Ludwig was abducted 11 June 1886 at Neuschwanstein). Then the laptop finally died yesterday.
Ludwig died in Starnberger See with the psychiatrist von Gudden. Ludwig was trying to kill von Gudden, so von Gudden was then trying to kill Ludwig. They eventually killed each other. So novel, no?
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