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Yesterday, I went back to the University of Pennsylvania to again visually scan the Ichnographia Campus Martius, and, just as I'd begun to suspect, all the circuses within the Ichnographia show a change of plan. Just now I'm thinking that the version at Penn does indeed represent the true work of Piranesi, and that the plan as commonly published is a post-Piranesi change. In fact, it may be a change that was done after the Ichnographia copper plates were no longer in the Piranesi family's possession. (If I recall correctly, the copper plates went to France, and it was there that latter editions of Piranesi's work were printed.) Indeed, the circuses of Hadrian and Domitiae depicted within the frontispiece comply with the "uncommon" circus plans.
Koolhaas versus the Actor
Did some spot readings within Heynen's Architecture and Modernity a couple of days ago, the Tafuri "operative criticism" and mimesis parts. And a week ago read some passages from Barthes' Elements of Semiology. I'm beginning to wonder about what phychological effects the devastation of WWII may have had on later-half 20th century European thought, especially regarding the signifyier
and the signified.
The Official Paradigm Shift thread
In the future, everyone will be a starchitect for fifteen minutes. That should satisfy eveyone.
The Official Paradigm Shift thread Yes, in the future, every architect will have five seconds of fanfare playing as they turn around and cock their eye. |
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