25 August
feast of St. Louis
1786 birth of Ludwig I
1845 birth of Ludwig II
2004 Ludwig at St. Louis with Hannibal and Mark Twain
Taken Literally
1992.08.25
Campo Marzio
1997.08.25
BIA
virtual museum of architecture
1998.08.25
Virtually Carved in Stone
1999.08.25
AMO asks for your response
2005.08.25 12:29
Favorite archinectposter
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global architecture
2005.08.25 14:17
Staged Photographs?
2005.08.25 15:07
Tiring architects VS Real Architects
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Indigenous Architecture
2005.08.25 17:37
full reenactment
2006.08.25 10:22
do you always want sex when u do design??
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The Fountainhead: relavant?
2007.08.25 16:33
pilotis
2007.08.25 20:39
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what does it mean to be a virtual museum of architecture?
1998.08.25
As part of the reorganization and updated display of Quondam, I also want to address the full potential of a virtual museum of architecture. The main issue to address is that Quondam's collection is "virtually" an infinite collection, meaning that the base model data can be used to generate ever more data, be it new line drawings such as elevations, axons, and perspectives, any number of renderings, and even whole buildings derived from a manipulation of the existing data. It is particularly the possibility of creating whole new buildings to add to the collection that makes a virtual museum of architecture (in this regard at least) completely unprecedented. The closest example of this "manipulative" attitude toward architecture is (ironically) again Hadrian's Villa where the form of remembered places was morphed into another style and an entirely other location.
I have to give this entire concept a lot more thought because I don't want to just create a set of buildings that only reflect my own personal ideas. Whatever "new" buildings come out of the collection should a meaningful place within a virtual museum collection. It might be interesting to create collaged buildings like Media and the Berlin Science Center. Of course, the analogous building idea is also a prime candidate for "new" buildings.
In any case, I want Quondam to start representing the wholly new and "other" entity that it is.
2007.08.25
one of the 'transformations'--structural form: expressionism 1962-71
Saint-Nicholas
Heremence, Switzerland
Architect - Walter Maria Forderer
...you might be interested in looking through Arthur Drexler's Transformations in Modern Architecture (MoMA exhibition book, 1979). It's full of less well known 1960s-1970s buildings that look very inspiring today. Got a copy via eBay about a year ago and it's interesting to now look for images of the buildings online. I've been planning a 'reenactment' of the 1997 exhibition at Quondam for several months now. Looks like it will finally happen.
      
Not in Philadelphia, but yes, a contradiction
Armando Brasini, Church of the Cuore Immaculata di Maria Santissima, Rome, 1926
...here's a competition entry from 1971, prototype for an Esso Service Station (obviously). Curious if anyone knows the architect. Otherwise, just want more people to know the project.
 
images above from a+u 77:02 focus: Vittorio De Feo
JDS Architects - Logistic City, 2006
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