Zampieri, Dominico
Zanth, Ludwig von
Zarcello y Alcarez, Francisco
Ziebland, Georg Friedrich
Zwirner, Ernst Friedrich
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1999.09.25
Write a responsive novella to Unstudio's new book MOVE in some kind of metabolic fashion. Originally, the thought was to write a long email and send it all over as usual, including to Unstudio itself. Right now, however, it's best to make the novella a set of web pages within schizophrenia + architectures, and then send some of the finished texts via email.
The outline:
1. regarding the whole notion of architects being fashion designers of the future:
a. fashion designing stories ending with "it's kissing me"
b. fashion as basically a quarter-yearly planned obsolescence
c. fashion is trend and pretense--it always seeks what's next but never represents what we really look like.
d. fashion is all about seams (seems???)
2. MOVE is on a wavelength that completed its first oscillation sometime like 15 years ago. Ironically, it was in 1985 that Philadelphia dropped a bomb on itself because of the MOVE people. "Lights, camera, Africa!"
3a. the technique book addresses new dexterity and it should say as much.
3b. the writing on the imagination tries its best to be provoking but it far from profound.
3c. the real effect is reenactment (of SMLXL, mobius, diagrams)
4. a response to no columns.
5. regarding hybridization, the main character is a hybrid--total European blood yet total American, and hinting at masculine/feminine nature as well. The composite face is akin to genetic alchemy.
6. the art being all about exploring (at least not hidding) seams.
7. the combined texts add up to more than your typical issue of Time magazine.
8. not only do architects have to catch up, but they already should be beyond what MOVE propogates. Architects need to be conscious of what mode/type of imagination they are using and also what type of imagination is appropriate for a particular design project. As to technique, book publishing is no longer necessary and the technique is old and not at all a practice of what is being preached. Web publishing is the way today, but maybe that is too seamless. And for effect, demonstrate how a single individual architect with a computer or two could alone run an office where design becomes the ongoing manipulation of existing digital data, which is essentially infinite, limitless in how it can become something new.
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