19 May
Piranesi
1999.05.19
zeitgeist: the body, the imagination, and archtiectures
schizophrenia + architectures
1999.05.19
Janus and naumachias
2000.05.19 22:22
notes on the imagination
2000.05.19 23:56
ideas
2000.05.19
Re: assemblege links
2003.05.19 16:40
Re: New York (re)captured by Washington
2003.05.19 17:32
REPORTAGE- Rhythm & Gender
2004.05.19 12:29
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Re: when, architecture? Bulldozing Home
2004.05.19 16:21
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Living Architecture, Programmable and Mutant
2005.05.19 08:45
2005.05.19 17:17
Amish Walmart opens in Ohio
2005.05.19 09:03
Re: The Empire Strikes Back
2005.05.19 09:44
why don't architects know how to work the media?
2005.05.19 11:38
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Ridiculous descriptive words for architecture
2005.05.19 19:34
Rem=Renaissance Greg Lynn=Baroque
2006.05.19 17:48
Add-A-Caption
2006.05.19 17:08
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2006.05.19 19:17
Does the School Make the Architect?
2006.05.19 1820
new website a departure from typical architecture sites
2006.05.19 18:36
2006.05.19 18:56
2006.05.19 19:04
The Official Paradigm Shift thread
2008.05.19 17:41
2008.05.19 20:47
Vado up gears, again
2008.05.19 17:44
Now try taking it to court.
2008.05.19 18:28
09051901.db IQ, section 8, Museum for Nordrhein Westfalen
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Piranesi
1999.05.19
Thanks for taking the time to read my observations. Your suggestion of writing a full-bodied critical review is encouraging, however, my intention at this point is to focus more on Piranesi's work rather than Tafuri's. My anger stems from being passionate about the Campo Marzio, and I dislike seeing the plan given such short shrift by a prominant architectural historian/theorist that should have known better. Additionally, after one reads what Stan Allen, Jennifer Bloomer and Peter Eisenman have said/written about the Campo Marzio it is obvious that they followed Tafuri's lead, therefore the mistakes become compounded, and, in the end, architecture theory suffers as well as Piranesi's meaning. I just don't want Tafuri's mistakes regarding the Campo Marzio to continue growing. The other reason for my anger is how Tafuri (mis)uses the Campo Marzio to support his own theoretical agenda. I wouldn't care at all what Tafuri says/writes were it not for the fact that he (perhaps more than any other architectural theorist) is still influential within the whole architectural debate. I'm angry because no one else sees where he is just plain wrong. I don't like to see "architecture" so misguided. Since the "myth" Tafuri created about the Campo Marzio is so big, anger seems to be the only emotion that can attempt to match the existing scale.
Considering that my "spot" observations are within schizophrenia + architectures, anger isn't altogether inappropriate, either.
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