2026.02.12
Northeast [Philadelphia] High School students conducting a blocks long march down Cottmann Ave. against ICE commenced today at noon.
Virtual Unknown Reenacting a Virtual Unknown
and through the fanlight . . . flies the fanmail . . . like a pigeon . . . with a fantail
double your pleasure, double your fun
2025.02.12
    
451 Rhawn Gallery
2024.02.12
Lorimer Park . . . along the Pennypack Trail
2015.02.12
Virtual Painting 100
Virtual Painting 106
2013.02.12
13021202.db Courthouse Plus Ultra model roofless axonometric
2009.02.12
pragmatists turning political?
Is not "Politics of the Envelope" more about how certain different building envelope configurations perform? The "politics" lies in the performance, and it is within the power of the architect to consciously design envelopes that perform well.
The indexicality is acute in that political envelopes execute performance, and not just represent 'power'.
2006.02.12
African American architecture?
Architecture in Black
Darell Wayne Fields, 2000
I have no idea why this book is listed at $130.00 at amazon.com, but there is a copy at Temple University's Paley Library.
Fields presents a very interesting argument that deals with Hegel's avoidance of ancient Egyptian architecture (i.e., African architecture) when he, Hegel, first writes about art history. (I think I'm remembering correctly; it's over five years since I've read the book.)
Fields taught at Harvard in 2000, and I assume he still does.
Plus there's I want to be an ARCHITECT by Eugene Baker and illustrated by Felix Palm, 1969.
 
A copy of this book is in Quondam's collection.
African American architecture?
Julian Abele was Horace Trumbauer's protégé. Trumbauer had no formal architectural education, but he did pay for Abele's education at the Beaux Arts in Paris, that is, after Abele graduated as the first African-American architecture student from the University of Pennsylvania.
[Abele played a leading role in the final design of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and several galleries on the second floor are solely Abele's designs.]
2004.02.12
Re: fresh [metabolic] breeze
Is there any truth to the rumor that Disney is planning a new theme park for somewhere in the Middle East tentatively called "Milk & Honey Land"?
2000.02.12
beyond the envelop (sketch)?
I'm now wondering if all the built environment of our planet is 'progressing' towards becoming a global (virtual) theme park, while cyberspace becomes the place where 'actual' 'real' data takes up residence.
1952.02.12
1952. Tuesday, New York City
Accepting Fiske Kimball's invitation to look at the distribution of the Arensberg Collection on the working drawings for the galleries [4.2.1952], Duchamp proposes going to Philadelphia on 18 February.
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After reading all her letters and manuscripts, Marcel finally posts a letter to Helen Freeman Corle [13.9.1950]. "I am definitively convinced," he writes, "that I have nothing to do with all that: painting and your thoughts evoked by these paintings." Stating that "the linear flow of time (1912-1952) is not a justification for the identicity of MD 1912 with MD 1952," Marcel says: "on the contrary I believe that there is constant dissociation." He explains that without any "interior echo" guiding him, he read the text as if he was a stranger to these things. "You yourself wrote these words without intention of meaning, syntax, explanation--compared with language your words are rather like the aroma of a dish compared to its taste."
Ephemerides
1927.02.12
1927. Saturday, New York City
In response to Brancusi's cable asking him to protest energetically against the decision of the customs, Marcel assures the sculptor that the matter is in the hands of Speiser [26.1.1927].
To reduce the return transport to only seven or eight crates, Marcel has arranged for Maïastra and the Pingouins to be put into storage; Brummer will keep Torso de jeune fille for which he has a buyer; Mlle Pogany is being sent to Buffalo at the request of Me Hekking; although Mrs Rumsey categorically refuses to purchase La Colonne sans fin, it can stay in Rumsey's studio; as for the various bases made by Brancusi, a wooden one and a white, cross-shaped stone have been left with Steichen for his Bird, the other big base has gone to Mr Levy.
Confirming that the crates will accompany him on the Paris leaving on 26 February and that he will bring the photographs, Marcel repeats his advise [27.1.1927] to Brancusi which is not to send the bird to Mrs Rumsey until he gets back: That's wiser," he writes, "and she is not in a hurry."
Ephemerides
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