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lebbeus woods and Piranesi
2005.04.17 13:16
Again, virtually everything Tafuri has written about Piranesi's Ichnographia Campi Martii is plain wrong, thus Tafuri's "particular interpretation relating Piranesi's work to the shaping of space by later avant-garde movements" is based on incorrect interpretation.
What's more interesting is the exact location of the History of Constantine tapestries vis-a-vis the "axis of life."
Do any of you ever stop to think and wonder why a superficial similarity between Lebbeus Woods' work and Piranesi's work is worthy of intellectual investigation, while a very real similarity between Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Parkway and a very symbolic aspect of Piranesi's Ichnographia Campi Martii is immediately scorned as worthless and/or fantasy? I think the answer lies within the direct relationship of ignorance and ignoring, plus the propaganda of the ether playground.
Oh, and what are the many similarities between Lebbeus Woods and Piranesi again?
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