2026.03.17
 
I See a Memory of Spoerri and a Memory of Duchamp
2024.03.17
a work within This One's for George
17:24
2023.03.17
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
17 March 2023 Friday
Baths of Caracalla Via Appia San Sebastian Mausoleum of Romulus Circus of Maxentius plans
I can still remember seeing Louis Kahn's obituary in the Evening Bulletin. I was a senior in high school, and I recognized Kahn's name because I had already, a year or two earlier, borrowed Vincent Scully's Louis I. Kahn from the Greater Olney Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. It's just dawning on me now that I first saw an image of Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius in 1972 or 1973. I was, of course, completely oblivious to the Ichnographia back then, and completely oblivious of Kahn's architecture as well--I distinctly remember not liking it--yet by Fall 1975 I was enrolled in Temple University's Architecture Program, first year, and it was like almost everyone teaching there had something to do with Kahn, either having worked for him, or having been taught by him, or both, or just plain went to all his lectures. That is, most likely, when I again borrowed Vincent Scully's Louis I. Kahn from the Greater Olney Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia, and started giving the contents of the book a closer look.
2016.03.17
BIG unveils moat-encircled stadium design for D.C.
It was summer, 1978. I was working for HABS in eastern Missouri and a schoolmate was working in western Missouri, just outside Kansas City. Since I was the one with the car, I drove to Kansas City a few weekends that summer. One trip was to go to a stadium concert--Dan Fogelberg, Linda Ronstadt, and The Eagles. Like a lot of other people, we got to Arrowhead Stadium well before it opened, and, instead of waiting in some line, everyone just spread out their blankets and 'camped' on the very wide concrete paving all around the stadium, and we did the same. While the others of our group went for a walk around the stadium, I stayed on the blanket sunbathing. Upon my classmate's return, he asked, "Anything happen while we were gone?" "Not really, but, if there was the sound of surf in the background, I would swear I just spent the last half hour on a crowded beach."
2015.03.17
Virtual Painting 183
Virtual Painting 197
2009.03.17
Venturi's Lieb (No. 9) House to be moved (or demolished)
Regarding the Lieb House "sail" window, see the elevation of the just prior Frug House II and then the plan of Frug House II.
  
echo....echo....echo
The work of Venturi et al always received good press coverage in Europe throughout the late 60s, 70s and 80s.
Making it/Thinking Architectural
architectural history flattened
architectural history reduced to a few lines
Making it/Thinking Architectural
Using a 3-dimensional representation as a plan (of a city maybe), kind of like architectural thinking in reverse.
2005.03.17
17 March 1974
the death of Louis I. Kahn
 
virtual mausoleum/virtual tombstone
2003.03.17
Re: Has anyone seen whatever that thread was called??
Another one bites the dust.
From kidnapping to bulldozing.
What limits will we see next?
Probably time to just walk away from the murder mystery.
Finished reading Shamrock Tea late last night.
In the future everyone will remember for fifteen minutes [and forget they ever heard of Rosemarie Trockel].
Just when I was beginning to like anagram makers.
Ivana B. A. Memory Chip
No U.N. architects allowed
New Urbanism in the Quondam Garden of Eden
designed by:
Euphrates Cat Architects
666 Fertile Crescent Turnpike
Ziggy Rat, IQ -00000-0001
USA
in association with:
Arabic Numeral Engineers
Uranus
2002.03.17
quick reminders
Being Obscure or Étant donnés' Back Door--introduce EDBD at design-l; I now categorize myself as appositional and obscure; inverse of notitiae; what I was doing right before poetry squared reenactment; an experiment in obscurity theory; being fog = befog = obscure; design-l archive = "a jackpot of obscurity."
1999.03.17
architectural otherness
House for Karl Friedrich Schinkel 1 2 3 4 5 6
1967.03.17
1967. Friday, New York City
Giving her details of his movements after 22 March, Duchamp tells Mlle Popovitch [8.3.1967]: "You would certainly have more chance than me in managing to obtain a nude from Philadelphia. In short it is as if I were in prison and my works are not at liberty either."
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"Thank you for the copy of our book," writes Duchamp to Pierre Cabanne [25.1.1967]. Having read it and also read the article by Otto Hahn in L'Express entitled "Saint Marcel Duchamp", Duchamp declares: "'I am beatified'. Our interviews, I believe, come just at the right moment for the show at the Musée [National] d'Art Moderne [8.3.1967]."
Ephemerides
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