2026.04.22
longitudinal section calling card
2025.04.22
Muse Shrine: Pope Popejoy the First
increasingly exhibiting its versatility
2023.04.22
an email received today
Dear, Stephen Lauf!
My name is Yura Plokhov, I am an architect. I am currently involved in a project by Yaroslav Aleshin, curator of exhibition projects at the largest Russian institution of contemporary art--House of Culture "GES-2" (Moscow).
With a deep interest we follow the development of your project at quondam.com and museumpeace.com. We consider them truly innovative and important for the development of architectural thought today. Your attention to coincidences, and the possibilities of reconstructing the course of history retroactively, as Piranesi did, are very consonant with the ideas and logic of our research.
In July of this year, we are planning to hold a collective exhibition entitled "Stellar Revenge," which will be devoted to understanding contemporary culture from the perspective of the juxtaposition of the alchemist, the scientist-innovator, and the artist, each of whom in their own way and by their own means seek to establish an alternative picture of the world to the generally accepted one.
This project, as well as the activities of our institution as a whole, is of a non-commercial nature. Admission to a future exhibition will be free of charge.
As part of our project, we want to present the ideas of several authors who address topics similar to the focus of your research. First of all it concerns your The chronosomatic theory and the concept of The Timepiece of Humanity. We see it reasonable to refer to them along with the legacy of such projects as the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit, as well as various concepts of alternative history and chronology developing in the context of Russian culture since the beginning of the 20th century (e. g. N. A. Morozov).
At the exhibition we would like to reproduce the image of the male figure with which you describe the mechanism of The Timepiece of Humanity and present an audio version of your text. This image together with the architecture of the exhibition will be able to better present the different projects of the artists and to unify them conceptually.
We kindly ask your permission to mention your name, to use the mentioned image as well as to translate and use for the public view your concept of the text which can be found at this link: https://www.quondam.com/44/4420.htm
With respect and hope for cooperation,
Yura Plokhov
2017.04.22
zero three zero
2016.04.22
 
2015.04.22
Archinect's critical round-up for the new Renzo Piano-designed Whitney Museum
Who knows, maybe 100 years from now architecture will be like multiple choice...
We wouldn't even need critics then, would we?
2014.04.22
Inga Saffron: It's not just architecture, it's city life criticism
Links to Saffron's articles appear almost weekly within ArchNewsNow's daily collection of worldwide architecture news. The articles themselves, however, may not have a broad audience appeal because they are, for the most part, very Philadelphia centric. What is significant though, is that a local newspaper still publishes the work of a critic that is so in tune with what is going on here regarding architecture, urban design and planning with a strong advocacy for (and clear presentation of) whatever is best about any proposal, design and/or solution. Saffron is also not afraid to say when and why something is just plain bad.
Saffron's articles are not long, but they are full and always present a concise story--you finish with the feeling that you now have a very good understanding of what's really going on.
2007.04.22
Featured Discussion: Volume
I referred to my stance as an architect as de-territorialized, but not to Quondam.
My de-territorialized stance may be reflected within the content published at Quondam, but Quondam itself doesn't attempt de-territorialization any more than any other virtual place attempts de-territorialization.
If there is anything I learned via de-territorialization and Quondam it's that limits are not worth reaching for.
2005.04.22
Re:Memories
Sainte Geneviève and Duchamp are quite chummy, actually. It has a lot to do with the whole Pantheon as national mausoleum thing.
Jacques Germain Soufflot Sainte Geneviève called the Panthéon since the Revolution Paris, 1756-1790
There's Geneviève and there's Catherine de Ricci. So how many spouses does Christ have exactly?
Re: Selective Memories - Unbekannt
"The miracles which were preformed there from the time of her burial rendered this church famous over all France, so that at length it began to be known by her name. The fabric, however, fell into decay, and a new church [which has a striking resemblence to one of Piranesi's designs within the Prima Parti, 1750] was begun in 1764. This has been secularized and, under the name of the Pantheon, is now used as a national mausoleum."
Jacques Germain Soufflot Sainte Geneviève called the Panthéon since the Revolution Paris, 1756-1790
"Boy oh boy, this hitting the Bullshit's Eye is getting funner all the time."
2004.04.22
Re: Hey!!!
Does (any) architecture come with an owner's manual?
1961.04.22
1961. Saturday, New York City
Replies to Henri Marceau confirming his visit to Philadelphia [17.4.1961] with Teeny on 4 may and asks him to reserve a hotel room, "not too expensive, and particularly not far from the museum."
Ephemerides
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