3 March
1926 birth of James Merrill
TPH373 da Vinci's Annunciation
TPH374 open door in the background
TPH375 clues
TPH376 duality in the background
TPH377 "The Metaphor"
TPH378 "The Metaphor" illustrations
TPH379 upward movement of time
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epicenter/reenactment reenactment
2001.03.03 14:55
Re: can I get some feedback?
2004.03.03 15:07
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future of architecture
2004.03.03 22:25
Versailles, sigh
2005.03.03 14:24
2005.03.03 14:29
I want to write about architecture....How?
2006.03.03 09:55
2006.03.03 11:27
Oh so many problems...
2006.03.03 10:01
Iconography, or the problem of representation
2006.03.03 10:18
2006.03.03 13:17
God's will as urban planning?
2006.03.03 10:30
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2006.03.03 16:29
Thesis Semester [blog] 25 years ago
2006.03.03 11:08
Has anyone read Platform?
2006.03.03 11:48
Calatrava on Charlie Rose
2006.03.03 14:39
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epicenter/reenactment reenactment
2001.03.03 14:55
It's been a while since I experienced an actual earthquake, one in Philadelphia when I was a child, late at night about 3.something if I remember correctly, and those more or less regular rumblings one experiences in LA, CA (--I vacationed there several times in the 1980s).
I wasn't straight off thinking about the recent India and Washington State earthquakes in terms of reenactment until Anand welcomed Gregory to "the brotherhood"--a kind of primal/visceral ritualistic reenactment connection.
Although far removed from Anand's and Gregory's first hand earthquake experiences, I was nonetheless also (recently in 1999) "shocked" by an earthquake. It was the one in Izmit, Turkey, when the issue of truly unsafe "modern" construction then too became news. For my reaction at that time see "epicenter /reenactment".
I had read a little about the earthquake in Turkey online the day it happened. That night as I was preparing dinner, I was also watching the NEWS on TV. It was then that I heard the name Izmit as epicenter. I said out loud, "Izmit!?! Isn't that what Nicomedia is called today?" I was then just newly becoming aware of Nicomedia and its place in Late Roman Empire history: imperial capital of the emperor Diocletian, home of the young soldier Constantine, not far at all from where St. Helena was born, site of many of the last great spectacles of Christian persecution, the place where Constantine received his deathbed baptism and thence where Constantine died. I knew all this about 'ancient' Nicomedia, yet until 19 August 1999 I didn't even give a thought to Nicomedia/Izmit in our time. Now all this may not seem "shocking" except 18 August is the feast of St. Helena and on 18 August 1999 I wrote a tribute to Helena here at design-l.
Today I quite unexpectedly received an email from a woman I do not know. She was doing a web search on augury and found a copy of "Equinoctial Augury", a letter I posted to various lists on 23 September 1999 and she was "moved" enough by what I wrote to (in her own words uncharacteristically) respond.
The woman who wrote me postscripted her email with, "(a crow just swooped low by the window, I take this as a sign.)"
future of architecture
2004.03.03 22:25
pre-natal thinker
If you're an architect in 2104, and you're already over ten years old, and at this point you're still not famous, do yourself and the rest of the world a favor and stop designing inferior crap that then only makes the world more inferior.
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