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Trivilla Savoye, level 2 plan.
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Shape and Form
2008.12.14 10:40
noctilucent, split framing, diptych, book seam,  (who I enjoy seeing in 30 Rock [paper, scissors?]).
As to reenactment and 'degrees of separation', further pursuance will occur with regard to degrees of separation opposed to split and with regard to cloning.
[e. e. cummings full circle,] Louis Sullivan's form follows function argued against architecture's form having become too removed from its function--banks shouldn't look like ancient temples; bankers don't wear togas. When Sullivan was in Philadelphia working at Frank Furness' office, 1872-73, it was on the same block as, if not right across the street from, William Strickland's Second Bank of the United States, with very severe Doric temple fronts, 1819-24. Strickland's Philadelphia architecture was meant to represent the United States as the new democracy, thus emulating (reenacting) the architecture of the old democracy of ancient Greece. Note, however, the similarity of the contemporaneous works of Strickland and Schinkel point to other factors also being present within the formulation of Strickland's style, likely the influence of the "Grand Durand" [degree].
As it stands, the
Second Bank of the United States
is made of
King of Prussia(n blue) marble.
Actually, the columns are crumbling due to having been originally hewn incorrectly.
"You mean form does not follow function when hewn incorrectly?!?"
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