13 July
1607 birth of Wenceslas Hollar
1811 birth of Sir George Gilbert Scott
"Further Deepening 'The Natural Imagination'"
1997.07.13
Hindu temples: fertilized architecture
Quondam
1997.07.13
the pleasure of (being lost in translation) architecture
1999.07.13 18:00
1999.07.13 22:52
auto-translation
hypermural
projects
1999.07.13
Technology May Change How Artists Are Paid
2000.07.13 17:08
...case closed?
2003.07.13 09:13
Re: houses saved by deconstruction or HABS
2003.07.13 11:48
Re: a tale of two realities
2003.07.13 15:39
Lucian and Helenopolis (or taking an historical bath)
2003.07.13
plan free
2004.07.13 17:39
KOOLHAAS: Taschen Beverly Hills Store
2004.07.13 17:49
Re: 302_MOVED_TEMPORARILY
horticultural unit by Darko Fritz
2005.07.13 13:10
2005.07.13 16:56
2005.07.13 17:21
2005.07.13 17:58
Blobfest 2005
2005.07.13 18:09
Sarcastic Architecture
2007.07.13 08:40
2007.07.13 12:29
2007.07.13 12:36
Quakers take green building to the Capitol
2007.07.13 11:02
2007.07.13 11:08
2007.07.13 11:58
2007.07.13 13:14
Quondam
2007.07.13
bored with modern & contemporary, yet?
2008.07.13 11:40
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Hindu temples: fertilized architecture
1997.07.13
I am now totally convinced that the Hindu temple is the prima example of fertilized architecture because it is used ritualistically as a penetration of the womb, and the form of the sanctuary itself combines both the male and female sexual organs--it is the womb on the inside and the phallus on the outside.
the pleasure of (being lost in translation) architecture
1999.07.13 22:52
My favorite: The configuration enters another one is connected with the both.
Re: a tale of two realities
2003.07.13 15:39
I finished watching The Ruling Class (1972) last night. (I recently got a copy via eBay.) Funny how the whole denouement of the movie centered on the notion that fear must be reinstilled into the citizenry in order for there to be "proper" order.
The main character of the movie, played by Peter O'Toole, is the 14 Earl of Gurney, a paranoid schizophrenic who believes himself to be Jesus Christ, the God of Love. The climax of the movie comes when Jack "JC" Gurney is forcibly encountered with another schizophrenic believing himself to be the Electric Messiah.
My brother frightened me twice a couple of weeks ago when his prone-to-violence schizophrenic other surfaced after an absence of three years. Yes, I was frightened, but now-a-days I'm more just intolerant of the bullshit. The first time I stared the other down, letting him know I wasn't going to relent. The second time I told the other to leave (and he went downstairs), and then I went after the other to ask him to show me how to do what I was apparently doing wrong, and that's when my brother without the other came back upstairs and began to help me.
"No one has yet suggested the likelihood of two Iraq's and/or two Baghdads, but it wouldn't surprise me in the least if that place somehow became very metabolic as well."
--excerpt from "city making and city breaking"
Earlier today I re-watched Koolhaas on Charlie Rose to capture Koolhaas noticeably smiling when the subject of Prada came up. Having now taken a closer look it is hard to say whether Koolhaas is smiling (or at least as close to a smile that Koolhaas can get to) because of Prada or because he just got to say on TV that perhaps in the future all architecture "will be embedded in a casino." I was doing this because I'm presently working on Pretensions of an UnArchitect, a multi-volume virtual publication featuring the two things I'm apparently good at.
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