2026.09.12
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2025.09.12
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Stephen Lauf Global Domination . . . still incomplete 2025.09.11
2019.09.12
2D and #D CAD database
19091202.db GAUA 004 wireframe model opaque work
2014.09.12
How to read like an architect.
I'm finally getting around to doing something I thought about over seven years ago:
2007.07.03 16:44: Just got a 1823 edition of Durand's Précis des leçons d'architecture this past Saturday, and seeing it now next to Hejduk's books inspires a comparative reenactionary analysis.
I think there are all kinds of forms of reading, even to the point of literally taking a book apart is a form of reading (because you learn some things about the book that you wouldn't learn otherwise, and you start noticing compositional issues that also wouldn't be noticed otherwise).
In 'regular' reading I use small post-it notes as bookmarks, and thus lots of my books have multiple small post-it notes sticking out of them.
I used to use very old (like 1995) text scanning software, but, now, with my new medium/large flat scanner, I'm amazed at how good text now translates into digital format. In using digital text, you go through a second close reading of the text, and, in reworking the text into html (for example), the book comes alive in a way that wasn't there before. I'm still in the process of reworking Vincent Scully's Louis I. Kahn (1962), and it's a real pleasure and learning experience having the images along side the text (instead of all the images at the back of the book.
2013.09.12
2D CAD database
13091201.db Wacko House 002 plans
2011.09.12
What would happen if you mix two master architects with opposing styles?
Mies van der Rohe - Hejduk
Courthouse Plus Ultra
2000.09.12
Re: Archives Restored
...a very real and indeed interactive architectural novel where characters come in and out of the "narrative" both expectedly and unexpectedly, and the "story" meanders like one of those great rivers that sometimes overflows and floods and sometimes runs dry while raindrops are eagerly awaited.
...probably the most unique and the most uniquely designed architectural text that has so far come into existence. I don't know if anyone will readily agree with this opinion, but I firmly believe it to be true because by virtue of its technological modernity alone, i.e., multiple and uncensored/unedited authorships, multiple retrieval options, pure progressiveness, etc., no text or book can come close to what the novel architecturale already is. Whether recognized as such or not, the novel architecturale nonetheless rightly deserves a prominent place within the very newest of architectural histories.
1950.09.12
1950. Tuesday, New York City
"Yes, I discussed the question of lowering the windows," Marcel tells Lou and Walter Arensberg, who are concerned about the light in two of the rooms under consideration for their collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Knowing that it would be "a very big and costly job", Marcel writes: "My final opinion about it is that you ought not to insist now until you have seen the effect with your own eyes." As an afterthought, Marcel suggests that as the ceilings in the two rooms in question are 19 feet high, it would not be so costly to raise the floor to within 3 or 4 feet of the windows and provide steps down to the other rooms.
Ephemerides
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