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regarding museum queries

test (poem?) by whomever
1999.04.17 07:44

[architecture as interface comes with the architecture of schizophrenic interfacing...]

[buildings constantly move, doors can be windows, windows can be doors, stairs to Pilate are climbed annually on knees, walls may soon all talk, floors will mostly remain flat, ceilings with sprinklers are virtual skies that harbor emergency rain, roofs probably more than anything manifest architecture's shape, lights, camera, Africa, machines to create architecture with, furniture and painting as one, utilities that never fail (sic), plants, of course, grass gets high, sidewalk, siderun, sidecrawl, sidesit, sideroll-over, driveway complete with Jeep, garage sale as museum,..]

and through the fanlight
flies the fanmail
like a pigeon
with a fantail

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1999.05.27: camouflaged irony I'm sure

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Happy Saint Helena Day
2001.08.18 15:32

Then I took R. to Ryerss Mansion and Museum in Burholme Park. I've 'rediscovered' this place last December. It's one of those places you pass all the time, but never bother to look inside of. It's my new favorite place. I describe it as "'Venturi Shops' 100 years ago" because the VSBA 1995 exhibit Venturi Shops unwittingly reenacts exactly what Ryerss Mansion and Museum is, namely, an exhibition of things bought during excursions of India and the Far East (albeit 100 years ago). Because Ryerss is actually a museum of someone's shopping, there is an interesting Koolhaasian reenactment manifested here as well. Additionally, I tell R. my new typological interest is houses that morph into museums, of which Ryerss Mansion is a prime example of as well.

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Re: WTC design study
2003.02.27 11:02

Now I get it. The whole WTC design event so far is more than anything a museum of lobbies(?).

Museum Collecting Point One: Monument Hysterique.

Ms. Curious:
"So what do you do?"

Mr. Nimiety:
"I collect museums."

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a rose is a rose is a rose

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2001.02.01: "In the future, everything will be an advertisement."

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2005.02.02: "Museum Comes To Us: Art in 2050"
missing footnote:

architecture in cyberspace?
1999.09.15 12:37

First, I said, "I'd hate to see the virtual merely become a reflection of the real." This means I'd hate to see architects/designers/theorists neglect an investigation of the inherent qualities of the virtual/cyber realm, where they can find virtual/cyber's own "natural" order. For example, one huge difference between architecture in the real world and architecture in cyberspace is that in cyberspace actual buildings are redundant, indeed a real auction house that does what eBay does couldn't even be built. Another difference between real architecture and cyber architecture is that one goes to real architecture whereas cyber architecture comes to you. It may simply be that "real" architects have to begin also thinking about what it means to design architectures that go to people.

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