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Koolhaas versus the Actor
2005.05.06 16:24
aml, you write:
"Tafuri starts with the analysis of James Stirling's Leicester laboratory. Initially it might be argued that this building is using a symbolic system [ships, machine aesthetic, other buildings], but Tafuri argues the way this reenactment is being done [and one of the key points is reenacting other buildings, this second stage removement] splits it, removes it from the symbolic system--no longer a direct reference, architecture with Stirling is referencing itself."
Can you provide some examples where architecture is a direct reference and thus not a reference to itself? What is a direct reference in general?
Also, you write:
Another way of looking at this is in general looking at the five architects. Here again, we have an architecture of self-reference, Five Architects referencing Le Corbusier's forms without a direct connection with the origin of the forms.
Can you provide an example where Le Corbusier's forms are referenced with a direct connection with the origin of the forms?
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