2023.11.01
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
1 November 2023 Wednesday
Not till the evening did I remember Andrew's text/question sent late last night: "What does your life tell you about coincidences? I'm so curious." I never thought about coincidences in quite that way before, but the question does seem to merit a thoughtfully considered answer. Not sure, however, if this is the place to deliver that answer, although there are coincidences within The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project worthy of elaboration. Stay tuned, I suppose.
My other thoughts were about Bianconi's presence, or not, at Piranesi's last Accademia di San Luca attendance 11 October 1778.
2022.11.01
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
1 November 2022 Tuesday
The first paragraph of Piranesi's Lost Words is a condensed conflation that produces little in terms of historical accuracy. If you want to more successfully imagine the days before a specific historical event, then approach those days with only the knowledge and viewpoint of the times just before the final days. After-the-fact/event-knowledge has no guaranteed bearing on the event itself.
It's a bit surprising that the words Circus Flaminius jam tum Apollinaris backwards might just be the last thing Piranesi ever etched. Yet, at the same time, it's wonderful to see Piranesi's final project seamlessly align with the transition from Maxentius to Constantine, the very hinge of ancient Rome's pagan/Christian double theater.
2019.11.01
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hours 57 58
2016.11.01
Long derided by architects, Prince Charles' model town Poundbury might not be all that bad after all
Got dinner tonight from Chop Suzy Choices, our favorite Chinese take-out, and you'll never guess what my fortune cookie said!
"Could the best architecture be the architecture that quietly disappears once it starts becoming mediocre?"
I mean, how crazy is that?!
2010.11.01
Extension Cord Architectures
Please post pictures of all the wires in your office.
I'm writing a book, Extension Cord Architectures, and I need up-to-the-minute material yesterday. If this book is a hit, my publisher promises I can then write Plug-In Air-Freshened Architectures. The sweet smell of success, I guess.
2010.11.01
Extension Cord Architectures
Perhaps you're better suited for that assignment. Call it Pigeon-holed Architectures.
My publisher just called and asked that I include a chapter entitled "Afraid to cut the cord". What do you think that's supposed to mean?
And thanks to all those who have already sent me pictures of all the wires in their office. Talk about being plugged-in.
2007.11.01
   
Virtual Architecture 089
2004.11.01
Re: Yinka Shonibare
Went to David Batchelor: On Chromophobia last Thursday night at Arcadia University. The talk was in conjunction with Eliasson's Your Colour Memory also at Arcadia University. "Chromophobia was named twice in Artforum as a 'best of'."
Revisited two Trumbauer-designed buildings in the process.
Batchelor said he did most of his research for Chromophobia at parties. Tony (sitting next to me) thought Batchelor's lecture should have been conducted as a party.
So color is most recently seen in Western culture as primitive (or oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, the queer, or the pathological)?
Next day went to see Yinka Shonibare at the Fabric Workshop and Museum—signature of Artforum rep in sign-in book. The exhibit was the perfect antidote to Chromophobia.
If there's anything that I'm not, it's a chromophobe.
2000.11.01
quick idea
New history of the Baroque (fortifications to double theaters).
1992.11.01
92110101.db Taken Literally
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