24 June
1748 death of William Adam
1875 death of Henri Pierre François Labrouste
Campo Marzio/Nolli
Altes Museum: virtual redux
old books
fertile/pregnant architecture
1997.06.24
Encyclopedia Ichnographica
1998.06.24
research as design-talk?
1999.06.24 21:17
german tragic drama?
1999.06.24 21:41
tsPOWa - body politic
tsPOWa - location, location
1999.06.24
The Architecture of Being [FOG]
2000.06.24
Re: genetic architecture
2002.06.24 09:00
2002.06.24 11:36
2002.06.24 16:46
2002.06.24 21:04
this is my world
2003.06.24 17:35
2003.06.24 20:14
Re: un autre péché dans l'air ??
2003.06.24 19:57
Index Architecture
2003.06.24 19:25
Post-Structuralism
2004.06.24 07:10
Porn and its effect on 21st century architecture
2004.06.24 11:47
2004.06.24 12:57
a pair of Euphrates cats
2004.06.24 16:18
Re: Muschamp Leaving the NYT?
2004.06.24 16:21
CAD models and artists
2004.06.24 11:22
040624a.db Philadelphia Museum of Art, Duchamp Gallery, model
Re: reading lists (was: question)
2005.06.24 11:00
Is Archinect a Place?
2006.06.24 11:41
2006.06.24 12:22
2006.06.24 13:05
06062401.db Tower of Shadows, model fixed
06062402.db Bye House and Tower of Shadows model and Chandigarh base fixed
What Is Art?: Conversations With Joseph Beuys
2007.06.24 10:25
Anti-Starchitecture Chic
2007.06.24 10:57
2007.06.24 12:56
2007.06.24 14:10
Archi-Edu
2007.06.24 12:04
Everyday Urbanism - Design and/or Default
2007.06.24 18:15
2007.06.24 19:21
2007.06.24 19:41
Quondam as some strange un-scientific fiction architectural novel?
2007.06.24
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Adam, William
architect; d. June 24, 1748.
William was the father of the brothers, Robert and James Adam. He designed a large number of residences in Scotland, the library and University of Glasgow, the town hall of Dundee, the royal infirmary, the orphan's hospital, Edinburgh, etc. William Adam held the office of King's Mason at Edinburgh.
Labrouste, Henri Pierre François
architect; b. May 11, 1801; d. June 24, 1875.
A brother of François Marie Théodore Labrouste. He studied with Vaudoyer and Lebas, entered the École des Beaux Arts in 1819, and won the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in 1824. His envoie de Rome on the temples of Piestum was published by the French government in 1884. In 1832 he was made inspector of the works at the École des Beaux Arts under Duban. Between 1843 and 1850 he built the Bibliothèque S. Geneviève, Paris. From 1855 to 1875 he was architect of the Bibliothèque Nationale, completed there the improvements begun by Robert de Cotte, and built the great reading room and the facade on the Rue Richelieu with the pavilion on the corner of the Rue des Petits Champs. Labrouste was made inspecteur général des édifices diocésains in 1857, and inspecteur general du conseil des bâtiments civils in 1865. In 1831 he opened an architectural school (atelier), which produced many prominent architects.
Re: genetic architecture
2002.06.24 16:46
"Expressivness" is just one way to exercise 'arbitrariness.'
At base, arbitrariness means making a decision(s).
Equating arbitrariness with expressiveness is just as limiting as equating arbitrariness with not building square.
Even when an architect designs contextually these days, it is largely an arbitrary decision to do so, except when there are actually statues, i.e., laws, that state that one must design contextually in a given area. Take the WTC site today, for example. There are a multitude of contexts to be dealt with there, and for sure not every one of them will be addressed--many actually being probably ignored while some, like infrastructure, cannot be all out ignored. In the end, when the site is rebuilt, there will have been many arbitrary decisions made, but that doesn't mean that all these decisions will be bad decisions nor expressive ones nor even contextual ones, etc.
I don't know what The Architecture Machine is about, but when I first learned to used CAD, I quickly realized that here is a machine that greatly enhances my creative capabilities, especially in terms of drawing/designing (if not also quick career advancement). With this realization also came another realization that I could now/then have two dexterities, one manual and one via machine (cad). One dexterity didn't replicate (or replace) the other, however. My drawing/drafting dexterity went on to grow (exponentially) through CAD, while my manual dexterity went 'primitive', slap-dash, expressive, but not exactly arbitrary because decisions were not part of the (initial) manual creative process. I explored my newly separate (from drafting) manual dexterity with instincts and gestures as opposed to decisions. Over time I learned to trust my instincts and gestures. By this point in time (and for almost 15 years now), my instincts and gestures are synonymous with my decisions.
When Gehry's work first came to my attention right around the same time (1982 was my first trip to LA; 1986 my second), I surmised that Gehry too was at a point where his instincts and gestures were synonymous with his decisions.
I never read Cyberspace: First Steps because I didn't know about the book until 1997 (and I think the book itself dates from the early 1990s), and I am now unlikely to ever read it because my first steps in cyberspace are far, far behind me, and indeed predate Benedikt's "first steps," and I don't think I need any refresher course in terms of how to 'walk' around in cyberspace--as my first and only CAD instructors at INTERGRAPH in Huntsville, Alabama admittingly observed, I started running right away.
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