12 June
1867 death of Louis Hippolyte Lebas
1873 death of Henry Shaw
books
1996.06.12
interview 2.6
1999.06.12 12:45
1999.06.12 12:48
1999.06.12 12:50
1999.06.12 12:52
Re: following Venturi's lead
2001.06.12 07:03
ideas
imperials
Virtually Carved in Stone
2001.06.12
Re: Anti-Hippy Surrealism
2003.06.12 10:49
Re: June 1963
2003.06.12 11:24
Re: Anthony Vidler on Gordon Matta-Clark
2003.06.12 11:37
solipsism: the movie/channel
2003.06.12 14:07
Re: Götterdämmerung?
2003.06.12 14:16
same difference?
same difference?
same difference?
2006.06.12 18:14
Villa Savoye Annexation
2006.06.12 19:58
Art is a boy's name or...
2006.06.12 20:30
Things To Do In Northeast Philly That's Not Franklin Mills or Neshaminy Mall (Part 1)
2006.06.12 20:45
thanks to the advent of modern technology du jour
2006.06.12 20:56
07061201.db Acropolis Q, surface collection for roof of Lauf Haus der Kunst
08061201.db Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti, plan scale comparisons
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regarding Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti at Rho-Milan:
In the first Olivetti scheme, it is the entire site plan, still elastically tethered to the high-speed autoroute to its south, which is set in motion. Here the southwest quadrant of the primarily four-square development is dislocated and eroded by the spiraling "auto current" into a cluster of residual biomorphic plateaus. The resultant laminar flow along the "T" configuration of the two elevated office slabs causes the longer slab to distend, again like the section of an airfoil or a ship's keel. The sluiced and compressed energy is allowed to eddy and swirl beneath these slabs, finally to "drain" into the centers of the three square plinths supporting them, which appropriately contain washrooms for the workers. The missing southwest square of this composition, defined by numerous corpuscular volumes, contains public functions. This quadrant, a great pumping heart, thrusts energies through the arterial channels coursing beneath the slabs. Anthropomorphism and hydrodynamics here merge within the biological metaphor of the body seen essentially as a container for the flow of aqueous and life-sustaining forces. The result is a biomorphically machined architecture--a reinterpretation of the machine ā habiter.
Robert Slutzky, "Aqueous Humor" in Oppositions 19/20, (1980), pp. 42-3.
Shaw, Henry
architectural draftsman; b. July 4, 1800; d. June 12, 1873.
Employed by John Britton to illustrate his Cathedral Antiquities of Great Britain, making especially the plates for Wells and Gloucester. He published Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages (1843, 2 vols.); Decorative Arts of the Middle Ages (1851); Details of Elizabethan Architecture (1839); Encyclopredia of Ornament (1842); Specimens of Ancient Furniture (1836).
Villa Savoye Annexation
2006.06.12 19:58
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