2020.11.14
works in progress
2018.11.14
page painting 039
2012.11.14
12111401.db Working Title Museum 003
2011.11.14
Rafael Viñoly on a Sunday
Is "the serious work that architects are doing to make the world a better place" really so weak, unstable (or whatever the right word is) that a "vapid" NYTimes piece is able to undermine it?
Also, are most of the posts above part of "the serious work that architects are doing to make the world a better place?"
2011.11.14
Rafael Viñoly on a Sunday
I doubt there is any real difference between the situation of the world of architecture before the NYTimes piece and the situation of the world of architecture after the NYTimes piece. Also, assuming the Viñoly's lifestyle has been the same for quite some time, where was all the outrage before the NYTimes piece? In my eyes, it's the publicity that has struck a major nerve. If you want to change the publicity, hire a publicist.
There was a time (25 years ago) when I and my (3d cad) work received a lot of publicity--newspaper articles, public television spotlights, highlight of a major architecture exhibit--and, as it turned out, its overall effect was to make other architects jealous.
2010.11.14
I'm apologizing in advance.
Trying hard (to make it better again) around here almost always guarantees the underwhelming, as does thread moderation.
Here's a revelation: "So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth."
This forum is tepid at best.
Apparently changing the temperature is a talent not everyone has.
About the extension cords, that was a prime example of "when in Rome." And it actually is funny to see someone shot at a decoy.
2010.11.14
Verisimilitude
All architecture is artificial, even to the point where you can say that architecture is the most artificial thing on this planet. And if architecture is to be truthful, it can really only be truthful to its artificiality. Moreover, it is that architecture that most pushes its artificiality to the extreme/edge that becomes the best architecture.
I'm speaking here mostly of real architecture, designs that are built. Virtual architecture (designs that could be built but aren't) and post-real virtual architecture (architecture that was built but no longer exists) express their truthfulness in other ways.
2006.11.14
Wildwood Daze
 
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2005.11.14
can't resist matta-clarkism
Cenotaph of Gordon Matta-Clark
There's a ground hog that lives around the back, and his name is Gordon too. Isn't that a handsome white Jeep?
What a great place to crank up complicated noise!
"12. FOG is cremated and her ashes are scattered a spoonful at a time at many different locations on the site of the world's biggest building implosion. Video clips of the implosion; the ashes of FOG.
13. FOG dies the same day The Architecture of Being [FOG] is announced, and her ashes are scattered as the book goes on sale."
--A Quondam Banquet of Virtual Sachlichkeit: Part II, p. 162.
2003.11.14
buzzword type goes to hollywood?
next motion:
lobby artist goes to Washington
2001.11.14
Re: sketching
What has always attracted me to CAD (and other computer activities like word processing, image processing, etc.) is the ability to customize just about anything, from the way lines look, to the "scale" of the drawing, to the angle of perspective, to the look of the screen, etc., etc., etc. For me, all that gives drawing with CAD more "life" then I have ever experienced on a drawing board.
The other "lively" issue with CAD drawings is that they are never completely done, and never is there a sole original either. CAD drawings propagate! For example, in constructing the first Santa Croce in Gerusalemme I needed classical columns, so I effortlessly copied the columns from Quondam's (Schinkel's) Altes Museum model, reduced them in scale, and they look perfect. (not bad for less than ten minutes worth of work)
I've often wanted to make an issue of the fact that Quondam has an infinite collection precisely because almost all of it is in digital form. Any image and any cad database in the collection holds the potential to propagate any number of new images and databases. Moreover, each 3d CAD database holds the potential to generate any number of perspectives, axonometrics, and color/shaded renderings. I would never call any of this "lifeless", rather the exact opposite.
When I say that a New Dexterity should be taught to student architects, it is to teach them just how versatile CAD and other digital data is. Any data "at hand" is really an infinite set of data.
2000.11.14
001114d.db ludi 002
1998.11.14
Ferko Playground
 
scenes from the old house
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