Duchamp After Unbekannt
Stephen Lauf




2026.09.28
castrated readymade...

...and some people might say this is an improvement even



2011.09.28
Curious; who's been on Archinect the longest?
quondam
Rita Novel
Wolfhilde von Schlittenfahrt
SuperImpose
Crystal Vanish
I'm with stupid>>>
singing in the shower
Precog
don't look at me
I like extremes.
every inch a gentleman
spoiled rotten cocker
Who did I used to be?
Frank O. Goldberg
petting zoo purgatory
once was
Off. o. Acropolitan Arch.
I’m laughing my ass off.
This is an advertisement.
001 Lauf
002 Lauf
003 Lauf
004 Lauf
Atlas of Rita Novel Tectonics
JohntheBaptist Piranesi
LeDeuzzy, Q.
Miss Rita Novel
Marcel Breuer
Random Access Memory
That's up to March 29, 2007, and there's a whole bunch more after that, even Steven Ward for a day or so. But my all time favorite (and almost last) was Archinect Sucks t-shirt--it caused an immediate panic and drastic measures.
Shock me, I'm bourgeois.



2008.09.28
On Formalism and Reenactment
"Name any current mathematical, scientific or philosophical theory, and there's an architecture that will try to reenact it."
2007.02.18 15:18
meta, "for years" is stretching it a bit, isn't it?
The Architecture of Nimiety: An Abundance of Redundance in Architectural Education, Theory and Practice
Place the following items in chronological order from oldest to youngest.
a. something original
b. reenactment
c. meme
d. tautology
e. then all of the above as something original



1999.09.28

pieces/palimpsest 07



1965.09.28
1965. Tuesday, Hanover
The North Express train from Paris is due to arrive at nine twenty-two in the morning. Wieland Schmied meets the train and takes the Duchamps to Kastens Hotel in Luisenstrasse, where he has reserved a quiet room for them.
Pleased to find that the hotel is so close to the station, where he will be able to buy the New York Herald Tribune, Duchamp explains to Schmied that he is following the eliminating tournament for the World Chess Championship, which is being held in Cuba. Bobby Fischer [16.12.1963] is participating, but as he refused to go to Cuba, the American is playing all his games in Miami and each move is being transmitted by telephone. Duchamp is amused by the idea that Fischer is "present" in the tournament but not "physically present".
It is the final day of the exhibition at the Kestner-Gesellschaft [7.9.1965]. Before the reception at eight in the evening, which has been organized to celebrate Duchamp's visit, Dr Schmied shows his visitors around and Umbo takes photographs. Many young artists, including Wolf Vostell and Konrad Klapheck, come from Cologne and Dusseldorf to the closing party, which lasts late into the night.
Ephemerides



1939.09.28
1939. Thursday, Paris
Not separated for so long as he had feared [30.8.1939], Marcel has lunch with Roché at Au Rat, 34 Boulevard Saint-Marcel, and talks about his idea of inviting the painter Jean Marembert (founder with Michel Tapié de Céleyran of the Groupe des Réverbères) and the Ferats to a village of artists in the south of France.
On seeing the photographs of Warsaw after the bombardment, Roché wonders: stay or leave?
Ephemerides




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