From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project:
21 September 2023 Thursday
2023.09.21 16:21 My first walk in I don't know how long.
The horse trail I took part of my walk on actually has a name--Shady Lane. Virtually no one else knows that, but you'll find the trail labeled as such on old Philadelphia Ward maps of like 100 years ago. A further west portion of Shady Lane is an actively trafficked residential street, while the horse trail Shady Lane is still in its eighteenth-century condition (so to speak). I'm highly confident the young John James Audubon got to know Shady Lane quite well.
They used to say, "All roads lead to Rome."
I remember once reading that some people believe that a rocket taking off from the North Pole, and continuing in an absolute straight trajectory, will eventually reach the Earth's South Pole. The book was about hyperspace and the fourth-dimension, I think.
So take your pick, Rome or the South Pole.
Earlier today, "Shape as sign, ah ha!"
I'm literally falling asleep.
2023.09.21
Philip Johnson didn't die yet...
More recently, one of Trumbauer's New York houses has been singled out for praise by a widely admired contemporary architect, Philip C. Johnson. "The Duke house," he has said, "is almost more dignified than its French forebears. It is the one revival house that is a total success."
--James T. Maher, The Twilight of Splendor: Chronicles of the Age of American Palaces, p. 368.
Otto asked Maria, "Philip Johnson didn't die yet, did he?"
"No, he's still hanging on, but, who knows."
"It would be great fun to have him talk at the convention about creating one's own virtual museum of architecture."
"Oh dear! Whatever you do, don't tell your brother. He's already mad enough as it is."
2004.09.21
"I'm three dimensional."
In the romantic, classic movie Two for the Road (1968), Albert Finney portrays Mark, a young American architect that ultimately becomes a European jet-setting architect (that's his very smart Mercedes coupe being driven into the back of an aircraft in one of the opening scenes).
As a recent graduate architect, he hitch-hikes through France taking 3D pictures of buildings; that's when he meets Joanna, played by Audrey Hepburn. As the pair are still just getting to know each other, Joanna asked Mark to take a picture of her instead of the local Cathedral. Mark says his camera is made for taking pictures of 3-dimensional objects like buildings. To which Joanna in beautiful irony replies, "I'm three dimensional."
2000.09.21
locate element
1983.09.21
you certainly count
1983.09.21
gash 001
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gash 002
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gash 003
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gash 004
1983.09.21
movie: Schinkel book goes to Hollywood
1983.09.21
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