2005.09.09 10:03
GENETIC CODE select young architect
gene splicing was a hot topic in the mid-1980s
2005.09.09 10:05
GENETIC CODE select young architect
[detail of] Title Lost 1985.04.05
2005.09.09 10:26
GENETIC CODE select young architect
"Please reenact me you so important generation you!"
The more things change the more they stay the same?
"We were important and young once too."
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2005.09.09 12:43
GENETIC CODE select young architect
Paying Attention Behind the Curtain 2001.06.15
2005.09.13 12:43
"design" vs. "styling"
It's probably true that fashion has always been more about style than design. The design of most clothes really hasn't changed all that much over the last century or so, but the style certainly has. Style is basically ephemeral.
Design gets bad when it also becomes ephemeral because that mostly also means that the real underlying design is then planned obsolescence.
2005.09.13 13:34
"design" vs. "styling"
It is not that something ephemeral cannot also be design, it is more that "Design gets bad when it also becomes ephemeral because that mostly also means that the real underlying design is then planned obsolescence."
The main reason I see ephemeral designs as not good designs is because the ephemeral things don't just disappear, but become trash. What is most commercial packaging, for example, if not ultimately highly designed trash. Plus that pavilion thingy recently/currently(?) at PS1--it didn't take very long at all for that to get trashy.
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2005.09.13 17:05
"design" vs. "styling"
I'm more interested in the self evidence of it all. For example, I like the design of MVRDV's Dutch Pavilion, especially as presented in drawings and within the continuum of their oeuvre. I didn't so much like the Pavilion as built (at least from the images I've seen). And now there is no denying that the Dutch Pavilion is leftover trash, architecture that might be saved or that might be demolished. Overall (so far), the good reality of the design is outweighed by the bad reality of the design.
Is the Dutch Pavilion also stylized? It seems to be so in that a lot of it was also high-maintenance.
Will the design of the Dutch Pavilion ever be a true paradigm for future architecture? I'll say definitely maybe.
2005.09.14 13:40
"design" vs. "styling"
Style now-a-days is largely egalitarian. Almost everything produced today harbors some degree of style. Price (which is supposed to reflect quality) is really the only thing that differentiates styles.
Overall, Modern or contemporary architecture is not a very popular style for living in.
Big Boxes are very efficient designs with little or no style?
The more style added to architecture the higher the maintenance?
My personal style anymore defaults to "no class" offset by an enormous aversion to falsehood. It makes for an easier life due mostly to low maintenance requirements.
The design of my life, however, is very complicated because art is its ongoing goal.
2005.09.14 14:31
Direction of Yale?
Ask Krier if he knows about reenactionary architecturism. And just for fun, tell him about Piranesi's Ichnographia of the Campo Marzio having two different printed versions. I'm sure his reaction to the news will be interesting.
2005.09.23 13:23
Official Archinect Haiku Thread
twelve eleven ten
nine eight seven six five four
three two one zero
2005.09.23 17:58
Greg Lynn Form VS Dildo Arch-Studio
Yeah, Roxy Paine is into reenactment (whether he knows it or not).
Anyone here actually visit/see the Intricacy exhibit? I wasn't all that impressed. "Force fit" often came to my mind, besides reenactment, that is.
2005.09.23 18:52
Greg Lynn Form VS Dildo Arch-Studio
el jeffe, I want to tell you more, but right now I'm not sure if I'm confusing Paine with another artist. There is an artist that devised a machine that 'reenacted' the human digestive system, which ultimately produced turds. I can't readily find any exact reference online right now (but I know it's in a magazine I have somewhere). This digestion machine looks a lot like the blob making machine of Paine, so maybe that's why I'm (possibly) confused.
Paine's aluminum tree and the specimen display cases of "second nature" have a strong reenactment quality. Plus the whole notion of "second nature" implies a reenactment (albeit with degrees of separation) of "first nature".
If I'm correct in thinking that Paine also did the digestion machine, then the notion of reenactment within his work is even more sound.
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2005.09.24 12:47
Stuff you find incredibly interesting, but aren't an expert on yet.
buying land in Greenland
people's jealous reactions
grandparenting
levitation
arabic
laws of silence
educated stupidity
2005.09.24 14:00
Greg Lynn Form VS Dildo Arch-Studio
"Nothing useful ever comes out from these threads..."
...talk about posts to express denial.
I'm not an expert, but I am interested in the subliminal effect of costly tuitions. I mean, how can you not automatically defend that which cost you so much to learn?
No one ever tells you how much fun it is to bite all the hands that don't feed you.
2005.09.28 16:18
Top Ten Autocad Commands that could also Double as Names for MCs and/or Graffiti Artists
Most of the titles in the Dark Shadows series are derived from 1985 Intergraph command-field jargon.
Copy Views
PRF Complete
Active Z Set To Display Depth
Return To Prior Level
End of Plot
Locks=SN, UN, GR
Update/Fit in Progress
2005.09.29 10:27
Irony and the potential demise of the Freedom Museum
X marks the spot
2005.09.29 14:20
Dark Ages
here's the answer:
Creationism and Destructionism
God is all creative/anabolic and man is all destructive/catabolic, although, like in metabolism, there are traces of creativity in catabolism, hence man is creative in that he, i.e., Cain son of Adam, created the first death/murder.
next lesson:
the evolution of death/murder
final lesson:
the evolution of brainwashing
Why is this such a big issue?
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