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Eiffel Tower, model.
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Their house is a museum, when people come to see 'em
2009.03.26 11:02
Log 15 is a slice through the present, featuring the current work and thinking of some of today's leading [really!?!] architectural historians and theorists: Barry Bergdoll, Mario Carpo, Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Hubert Damisch, Peter Eisenman, Kurt Forster, Mark Jarzombek, Irving Lavin, Sylvia Lavin, Mark Wigley, and Mirko Zardini. Assembled to honor Phyllis Lambert on her 80th birthday, these essays range from an architectural and archaeological reading of Chris Marker's post-apocalyptic film La Jetée to Dravidian architecture in India; from Gordon Matta-Clark's erasure of architecture to the persistence of asphalt; from the influence of Andy Warhol on ambient architecture past and present to the house in the museum and the museum in the house.
Barry Bergdoll (in a virtual museum) homes in on the museum
Mario Carpo searches for an author
Jean-Louis Cohen goes underground with Chris Marker
Beatriz Colomina finds the museum at home
Hubert Damisch adds to a means of subtraction
Peter Eisenman paints himself into a corner
Kurt W. Forster reopens the book on architecture
Mark Jarzombek pursues the conceptual
Irving Lavin pairs up architectural patrons
Sylvia Lavin reintroduces Andy Architect
Mark Wigley channels Gordon Matta-Clark
Mirko Zardini pounds the asphalt
Re: being/critical
2002.04.11 17:27
Museum smile--say (Seagram's) whiskey.
Hey R, remember when we had champagne and snacks with Phyllis Lambert at her Montreal loft in Fall 1979? Weren't there like long, white shear draperies hanging all over the place. It's kinda funny to think that she had absolutely no idea what we were doing there. Didn't we also like rudely leave when we got bored? (Those draperies turned out to be useful for something.) [true story]
Went down to Independence National Park this afternoon. Wanted to take pictures of the 1976 Liberty Bell Pavilion (Mitchell/Guirgola Architects) before it becomes completely quondam when the Bell is moved to its forthcoming new home in Spring 2003. With all the news about the first Executive Mansion (with slave quarters) of the USA, you would think that the plans to demolish the present Liberty Bell Pavilion would be rethought (as I mentioned before).
Anyway, all the historic shrines are now barricaded and guarded (since 9-11), so I took pictures of this latest layer of American shrine history as well.
Palimpsest is not exactly apposition because an erasure occurs before something new is applied. Apposition occurs within palimpsest when traces of the erasure begin to be seen again.
R, weren't you at Independence National Park at 12 midnight 1 January 1976 when the Liberty Bell was moved to the new pavilion?
What's really artistic about self-collecting is its ongoing nature as an unfinished work in progress (like the only worthwhile art that JY writes of). Self-exhibiting is artistc for the same reason. Here's one of the treasures I've collected: [a link that no longer exists]
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