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Jimmy Venturi's new website...
2005.10.11 11:50
Subject: first virtual house of the 20th century
Date: 1998.11.15
The next complete chapter of Learning from Lauf (vague) S. will be entitled "The first virtual house of the 20th century"--here's the outline:
Virtual anything, including the virtual house, is a hot topic of architecture in the very late 20th century. Eisenman and any/all other recent virtual experimenting architects however, have thus far failed to recognize their true 20th century patriarch on this count.
1972 - Venturi and Rauch - Franklin Court: the ghost frame of Benjamin Franklin's long gone original home--it's a pure wireframe, it's still "not there," it's the quintessential virtual house.
November 15, 1998 - anyone that isn't convinced that Venturi and Rauch's Franklin Count is the foremost virtual house of this century (if not of all architectural history) need only be reminded that Benjamin Franklin (whose "house" we are discussing here) became famous for writing Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751), and, moreover, don't they teach in grade school that Benjamin Franklin actually DISCOVERED ELECTRICITY!
Lao-Tzu say, "If the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten."
--A Quondam Banquet of Virtual Sachlichkeit: Part I, p. 15
Perhaps the latest chapter of Learning from Lacunae is "What a lot of architects pretend is not there."
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