2026.07.18
ten shelf lives
2024.07.18
zehn Stilleben
Stephen Lauf zehn Stilleben, la vertigine della mescolanza, fight against time, indeed 2024.07.18
2023.07.18
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project:
18 July 2023 Tuesday
Hélène Gregoroffsky Fisher, a true unique among foremost Russian Americans.
2021.07.18
3D CAD database
21071801.db &nbsol iiq06 Battery Park City model work
2013.07.18
2D and 3D CAD database
13071801.db Almost Semiquincentennial House model perspectives axonometrics
2007.07.18
on aesthetics
I'm not exactly sure how "any definition of place is going to be arbitrary."
There is a somewhat unquestioned methodology to architectural history, which categorizes types of architectures by period (time) and location (place). And this is mostly a Western European standard. Yet architectural history is rarely written where it demonstrates how types of architectures actually overlap when architecture is culled from all over the globe at any given time.
If you're not arbitary about place and simply say the globe, and then look to see what types of architecture were being done (on the globe) at any given time, you'll see just how diverse architecture always was. Interestingly, this is how we judge the present (and conclude that standards are fractured), but it's not how the past is/has been judged.
I agree that architecture for the most part is arbitrary in the sense that most architecture reflects a set of specific decisions (arbitration), but only a small percentage of architecture is outright whimsical. Personally, it's refreshing to see just how diverse architecture has always been.
Otherwise, the real modus operandi of aesthetics is "what is the cash value?"
2004.07.18
good design under $15?
I love how a lot of 'good design' these days amounts to stuff that soon becomes trash. Thank goodness even my trash can is good design.
Planned obsolescence has to be the most successful design of all.
1998.07.18
Ichnographia as base for Quondam models
...the idea of placing the model collection into some kind of context--an imaginary context--and now the idea of using the Ichnographia as the base plan for the context. Moreover, the "program" of the Ichnographia could inform the museum context. For example, the Porticus Septorum Juliorum is analogous to Plecnik's Houses Under a Common Roof (although not close in scale), and the houses are simply placed there. This opens up the opportunity to place other models in other analogous situations.
This idea takes on even greater implications with including Parkway Interpolation as well as the whole Center City Philadelphia model.
Like the Ichnographia, the whole design could manifest a message, and that message could well be a critique/enlightenment of architecture today, starting with putting Acropolis Q at the Garden of Satire.
1963.07.18
1963. Thursday, Cadaqués
To Jean Tinguely, who is in Lausanne busy starting to build Eureka for the 1964 Swiss National Exhibition, Marcel writes: "Thank you for your ballooned message which Jackie brought to me here," and gives him instructions regarding a Boîte-en-Valise for Yoshiaki Tono in Japan.
Ephemerides
1947.07.18
1947. Friday, New York City
Replies to Elisa and André Breton's letter remarking that "Le Surréalisme en 1947" [7.7.1947] would appear to be a success. Hoping that Aimé Maeght has posted him a catalogue, Marcel would also like to see some photographs of the installation. Will Breton make a small album so that all this work doesn't just evaporate in September? Did he have time to install the room of "Surrealists in spite of themselves" and the kitchen [12.1.1947]?
Ephemerides
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