2026.08.28
Fonthill Castle
2025.08.28
451 Rhawn Gallery
Stephen Lauf very Duchamp after Unbekannt 2025.08.28
Stephen Lauf consequtive queen and queen consort in the bottom corners 2025.08.28
2024.08.28
reenacting the largest painting in the world
2022.08.28
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2021.08.28
2012.08.28
The Philadelphia School, deterritorialized
Spent a good part of this morning taking pictures around the exterior of Louis Kahn's Fisher House, in Hatboro, PA. Just by chance I found out last Friday that the house is currently on the market (and may actually be sold at this point), and the house is presently vacant. The exterior of the house is very nicely detailed, and still inspiring. It's also the plan of this house that inspired a collage technique I employ from time to time.
2008.08.28
"wildly influential" or really only virtually influential?
I guess I shouldn't be so hard on an architecture fan club. I myself am on stand-by for [membership within] the Horace Trumbauer Architecture Fan Club.
The surprise for Otto, if he organized the [2004] Ottofest in Budapest, was that Gehry would design a new Guggenheim branch at Lynnewood Hall. Two years and two months later the Philadelphia Museum of Art announced the selection of architect Frank O. Gehry for a major expansion of galleries and public spaces...
"And don't forget "Creating One's Own Virtual Museum of Architecture" will be presented by Richard Krautheimer and Philip Johnson on 7 July 2005 within the enormous subterranean arched vaults of the Philadelphia Museum of Art."
...the very space that Gehry is designing.
"wildly influential" or really only virtually influential?
2005.08.28
Hi, Gorgeous. Haven't I Seen You Somewhere?
In reality there really is no "re-inventing" going on. As rationalist states above--
"It seems to me that it would be quite easy to go through a design process and end up with something, and even if something in your brain goes, "hmmm, that looks kind of familiar... but where have I seen it?" you may never figure out what you've accidentally plagiarized simply because you glanced at something once and mostly forgot about it."
--the reenactment happens whether or not the exact source is remembered or not.
I don't think architects generally have "dustbins inside their heads" (that's actually antithetical to the task of the profession), but they have been brainwashed into thinking that being original is the highest level of their art that all architects can achieve. Originality is relatively rare.
Hi, Gorgeous. Haven't I Seen You Somewhere?
Yes, I've heard the reenactionary-architecturism-sounds-too-much-like-predestination argument all before.
"reenactionary architecturism sounds like a lazy excuse not to experiment" is to me just another reenactment of an argument I've heard before.
It so far always turns out that reenactionary architecturism wasn't even understood well enough for the "just an excuse" call to be made in the first place.
Reenactionary architecturism is not a prescription, rather an understanding of how a lot of design works.
2003.08.28
Re: closing on Mars
Last night I began to wonder/question when exactly the planet Mars was first named (for) Mars. Moreover, what did/do other (than Western) cultures name the fourth planet of our solar system? According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the Greeks associated the fourth planet with Ares (also a god of war) supposedly because of its red (i.e., danger) color.
When Mars is in opposition, like now, it is the fourth brightest heavenly body (relative to Earth viewing), being surpassed only by the sun, the moon, and the planet Venus. When Mars is not in opposition, the planet Jupiter is the fourth brightest heavenly object (relative to Earth viewing). Perhaps the ancients (at least the Greeks and the Romans) saw this periodic exchange of 'power' between Jupiter and Mars as indicative of the periodic power of war over even the most high. Fortunately, love, i.e. Venus, is never outshone by either Mars or Jupiter.
Re: FW: Evolutionary theory and architecture
Paul wrote: Architects don't view the process of architecture as one of communication--of receiving and transmitting influences. They view architecture as form and understand the process as formal organization.
Steve writes: I, as an architect, indeed view a process of architecture as one of communication--of receiving and transmitting influences, hence Quondam - A Virtual Museum of Architecture where (its) architecture is the delivery of content.
1977.08.28
August 28, 1977. Sunday, Ostia Antica
Ostia Antica [I liked the ruined port town a lot, but, toward the end of the visit around noon, I started feeling unwell, so I went back to Rome and stayed in bed until the next morning, and then I'd see how I felt.]
Italian Study Tour Journal
1936.08.28
1936. Friday, West Redding
With the help of Carl Rasmussen all day, Duchamp replaces the newspaper bands with 2 glass strips and completes the framing of the Large Glass, which is now repaired and standing in Miss Dreier's spacious library [28.7.1936]. Meanwhile, Miss Dreier types a list of artists whom Dee is to contact about contributing an example of their work to the Société Anonyme.
Ephemerides
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