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Ichnographia Quondam, Campo Marzio section 8, mirror copy plans.
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Now try taking it to court.
2008.05.15 08:17
I wish this was in the forum. Anyway...
I'll take a stab and guess the reason Smokety Mc Smoke Smoke "can't listen or read P. E. anymore" is because SMSS has a background in law. Eisenman's points/arguments here are either flawed in logic, sentimental, academic, or self-serving. For example, "students are passive", yet the students described here are actually protesting. In terms of practice, deconstruction is one of architecture's most obscure styles and 'post-modernism' is still what the vast majority of architects do. Part of what's historically playing out now is Le Corbusier's late style and Kahn's early 'planning' style.
Anyone else love watching Boston Legal. Now there's a style architecture would do well to emulate.
For the record:
"The duck is the special building that is a symbol; the decorated shed is the conventional shelter that applies symbols. We maintain that both types of architecture are valid--Chartres is a duck (although it is a decorated shed as well), and the Palazzo Farnese is a decorated shed--but we think that the duck is seldom relevant today, although it pervades Modern architecture."
--Learning from Las Vegas, four years after 1968.
Perhaps the case today is that the duck has become (via media) more relevant (to society), and the decorated shed has become more (true to form) ephemeral. I maintain that both these types of architecture are valid.
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