From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project:
24 September 2023 Sunday
Say stuff about being happy that Francesco inhabits all of Piranesi's Circus of Caracalla story, from being Pierre-Adrien Pâris's student in 1772-3 to the publication of Calcographie des Piranesi, ou, Traité des arts d'architecture, peinture et sculpture: développés par la vue des principaux monumens antiques et modernes in 1804. Francesco is essentially the secret protagonist of the entire Piranesian "Circus of Caracalla" saga. The key to Piranesi's final project, turned out to be a lifetime project for Francesco.
"It always seemed as if Francesco was leaving clues, mostly because there are no explanations for the disparate Circus-of-Caracalla-related artifacts he later published." --Lauf 2023.09.22
Yet, the Circus of Caracalla, albeit among other things, also appears at the very beginning of Piranesi's career. The difference being, where Piranesi, except at the very end, was about being doubly theatrical, Francesco was always about being accurate--from baroque epilogue to modern frontispiece.
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zero nine three
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Closer look: Zaha Hadid's new “floating” Port House in Antwerp
Interesting how both the old and the new are equally repetitive and blunt. Different centuries, same bureaucracy?
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How can a building be 'critical'?
Eventually I'd like to see Museumpeace [the now non-existent chair] in a cell at Eastern State Penitentiary. And then call it Crime and Punishment, and be done with it.
2008.09.24
Stuff you find incredibly interesting, but aren't an expert on yet.
buying land in Greenland
people's jealous reactions
grand parenting
levitation
Arabic
laws of silence
educated stupidity
2005.09.24
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.
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Solution to the Unknown
iheartberlin.jpg
especially now!
2004.09.24
Poll for Writers
Boy Meets World meets Lost in Space--kind of like déjà vu meets soup du jour the next day.
Soap meets Seahunt
Taxi meets The A Team in The Streets of San Francisco
Perry Mason meets Ali McBeal (in the Ballroom with the lead pipe)
Bonanza meets Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
All in the Family meets Dark Shadows
That Girl meets The Waltons
2003.09.24
Re: Core Samples
curators everywhere--
but I prefer MTV ESPANOL
Polska as lingua franca
ever since someone left the cake out in the rain
2003.09.24
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