10 March
1755 birth of "Pere" Callet
Re: epic architectural past
1999.03.10 08:48
Jencks/labeling
1999.03.10
classical/modern
1999.03.10
gallery 1999
1999.03.10
Re: George Washington's Presidential...
2001.03.10 10:48
Re: King of Prussia marble?
2002.03.10 12:35
2002.03.10 14:35
2002.03.10 20:43
Re: membership down
2002.03.10 13:57
there's no controlling nobodies
2002.03.10 20:43
Koolhaas on Charlie Rose tonight
2004.03.10 12:30
040310a.db Ichnographia Campus Martius
040310b.db ICM, Horti Salustiani, plan
Quondam
2005.03.10
Morphology and Typology
2005.03.10 14:50
Iconography, or the problem of representation
2006.03.10 11:06
Thesis Semester [blog] 25 years ago
2006.03.10 12:03
2006.03.10 15:44
...and speaking of random tangents
2007.03.10 17:09
2007.03.10 20:42
The Discreet HARM of The Bourgeoisie...
2008.03.10 14:03
2008.03.10 17:40
Who thinks Koolhaas is sexy?
2008.03.10 15:41
09031001.db IQ, model, Parkway Interpolation
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classical/modern
1999.03.10
Hugh Pearman in two recent posts wrote:
"Architectural operating systems (as opposed to surface styling) are predominantly Gothic or Classical."
"What I called the 'architectural operating system' as a deliberate computer analogy--might clarify rather than confuse, for me if nobody else."
I suggest a wholly other batch of "architectural operating systems" that derive from the morphology and physiology of our own bodies, the machines that we are instead of the machines that computers are.
Some architectures are extreme.
Some architectures are fertile.
Some architectures are pregnant.
Some architectures are assimilating.
Some architectures are metabolic.
Some architectures are osmotic.
Some architectures are electro-magnetic.
Some architectures are total frequency.
Figuring out what buildings/architects fit in which category(s) may well be the ultimate architectural parlor game. (Hint: Classical is high fertility and Gothic is early pregnancy.)
Hugh also made reference to the notion of architects having "to have his or her 'personal myth' to believe in and guide them." For what its worth, I have "discovered" my own myth, and its called The Timepiece of Humanity or the theory of chronosomatics.
The Discreet HARM of The Bourgeoisie...
2008.03.10 17:40
Ah yes,
the Horse Radish House.
Callet, "Pere"
architect; b. March 10, 1755 (at Paris); d. about 1850.
He filled the office of commissaire voyer of the city of Paris from 1796 to 1828, and formed a remarkable collection of works on French architects and architecture. This included the famous series of the works of Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, which was sold to the city of Paris and destroyed with the Hôtel de Ville in 1871. He is best known by his Notice historique sur la vie artistique et les œuvres de quelques architectes français. His son, Félix Emmanuel Callet, assisted Victor Baltard in the construction of the Halles Centrales (Paris).
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