Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hours 152 153 154 155 156
2020.08.08
Esther Sperber argues that to end abuse in architecture, stop believing in the creative genius myth
As to abuse within architecture, I'd point the guilty finger at position of power and enablers well before I'd point to creative genius as lone wolf. The abuser as well as the enablers are seduced by the position of power, and not seduced by creative genius. And the abuser doesn't use creative genius to manifest abuse, rather the abuser uses the position of power to manifest abuse.
2018.08.08
Lady Gaga: Architectural Cipher
Fashion medium as message; says the same on the front.
2009.08.08
Lady Gaga: Architectural Cipher
Just in case it isn't obvious, I like fashion that has a point.
2009.08.08
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project:
8 August 2008
The arrogance of 'Architects'
In the Ichnographia Campus Martius "certain landmarks remained: the Tiber River, the Piazza Navona, and a Colosseum-like structure, which was in the wrong location and, in a sense, at the wrong
scale."
--Peter Eisenman, "Piranesi and the City" (2007).
In fact, the 'Colosseum-like structure' is clearly labeled Amphitheatum Statilii Tauri, positioned by Piranesi in its most likely location, and delineated at about 2/3rds the size of 'the Colosseum' which is probably what the Amphitheater of Statilius Taurus was.
Eisenman's misrepresentation of the facts here is somewhat compounded in that Wilton-Ely had already years earlier noted the presence of the Amphitheater of Statilius Taurus within Piranesi's Campo Marzio.
Eisenman interprets Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius in several self-serving ways, but he never comes to realize that on one level the Ichnographia Campus Martius is a gigantic test of Ancient Roman topography.
"Hey Doctor. I don't know what you want me to see, but this thing I'm looking through looks like some plan from Piranesi's Campo Marzio."
2008.08.08
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project:
8 August 2008
Adam (sans Eve) in the Garden of Satire
August 8, 1977
Fully packed for Rome. Luggage weighs 33 lbs. I weigh 172 lbs. Leaving for New York with $107.00.
2008.08.08
Do you remember...
"That's good boys. So far I see no erectile dysfunctions. And it looks like you're gonna deliver a big load."
2005.08.08
OMA is hiring
Wunderbar! Now I will surely be hired by OMA. Mr. Koolhaas will definitely notice that I give a shih tzu.
2005.08.08
OMA is hiring
"Just don't shih tzu on me."
2005.08.08
"How Did This Happen Revisited"
Last Friday I read about Vitruvius Britannicus in Architectural Theory: from the Renaissance to the Present (Taschen, 2003) and was surprised to learn:
"For Campbell St. Peter's is by no means merely an especially striking expression of architectural abuses on the Continent: it also stands for Italy's cultural decline. As such he emphasizes in his foreword that in the post-Palladian era Italy had not only become estranged from the true "taste of building," but also from the roots of its culture, the Latin language. From this perspective, Italy could no longer be the destination of the Grand Tour. Campbell considers such understandings to be "Mistakes in Education." As the Vitruvius Britannicus is intended to demonstrate, it is now the architects and artists of England who are to take Italy's place as the preservers of timeless, classical taste."
I cannot recall having ever read that Piranesi's oeuvre is in some ways a reaction to Vitruvius Britannicus, but I certainly see it that way now.
Vanbrugh begins "How Did This Happen Revisited" by pointing out the dates of the gardens of Versailles (1661-1668) and the plan of Philadelphia (1683), and from there it's an enlightening chronological list of events. "And in 1683, William Penn was the largest landowner on the planet who was not also royalty."
2005.08.08
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2 = odd, Dick
1984.08.08
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