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diptych: architecture and thinking twice

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thinking
But it's thinking about the original Swedes that manifests the most 'chills and thrills.' Since I'm now very familiar with the site, I'm pretty sure I know why it was chosen, and trying to imagine living at the fort is not all that difficult--at least I personally know what it's like to see a herd of deer there, or the footprints some of them leave in my mother's front garden after they eat her flowers.


thinking
This part weekend it was my thinking about the position of the Academy of the New Church Administration Building along Huntington Pike, which is the northern extension of Oxford Avenue, that got me to read Fox Chase: 300 Years of History on Sunday night. Saturday morning I was reading some of Christian Norberg-Schulz's "The Genius Loci of Rome" in Architectural Design Profiles 20: Roma Interrotta.


thinking
Going back to what A said about "worship of stararchitects" and what southpole said about the thinking of elected officials, is it a reality now-a-days that only architecture by star architects will even generate buzz?
Who exactly is benefiting most from the buzz, from the masked advertisements?


thinking
Last night I spent some time thinking about Le Corbusier's use of non-architectural imagery within Vers Une Architecture as a means to 'market' his case. And then I began to wonder if this method had been reenacted recently. And yes there is a certain irony in utilizing common easily associated images to help execute and promote an architecture that otherwise strives very hard to be original.


thinking
Chronosomatics as an idea first occurred to my while I was living in Washington DC during the summer 1981. The Masolino Annunciation in the National Gallery got me thinking about why the column is right in the middle of the picture, and indeed divides the picture in half. (I went to the National Gallery often at night that summer because I had nothing else to do.) Coming to the conclusion that the painting was symbolically depicting the union of God and humanity somehow clicked with the notion that this moment in time coincided with where the human body's legs become the torso. This became a kind of culmination of lots of prior thinking/doing.


twice
Earlier in December, I twice passed and briefly stopped by Benjamin Franklin's grave, which is just catty-corner from the new US Constitution Center here in Philadelphia.


thinking
jump, when you write, "it would be a mistake to stop with thinking that once the surface/imagery is done the architecture is too. which is what Venturi does so often," it is obvious that you really don't know the work and practice of VSBA. Plus, what you've written overall is a mish-mash of subjectivity mixed with very little objectivity--I'd sort that out before I'd make any sweeping conclusions.

twice
Did you know I pass by The Great Wall twice every time I go on my bike-loop?


thinking
Boy, they really are slow. I was experiencing, thinking and writing about the same stuff back in 1983 and the years immediately after. I found whole new uses for my quondam drawing equipment. I started making art while the computer aided my drawing of architecture.


thinking
Did I also visit Franklin Court? Since I remember Hal Guida and I talking about it--it is mostly an underground museum after all--I guess I did go there. I especially remember how much Hal admired the "Franklin - Man of Infinite Dimension" room and how the reverse lettered neon was then correctly read in the mirrors. I took pictures of just that phenomenon 21 November 1998, for sure thinking of Hal while I did so.


thinking
[It seems] the point of Japanese architecture of the 16th century is that one could well choose to sleep in the moon viewing room or choose to sleep in the breeze catching room, or choose to sleep in the fragrant room etc. The same would go for eating, reading, etc.
And if all the sliding wall panels doubled as flat screen monitors, then you could watch TV anywhere too.
I wonder what verb best describes this type of thinking.


twice
My azalea bush right out front blooms twice a year, in the Spring like all the other azaleas, and again mid-Summer.


thinking
Susan, I can't provide any answers to "why." but the 'architecture' font has been part of Intergraph's CAD program since at least 1983. Back then I remember thinking "how ironic" to utilize CAD to make something look "hand drawn." Luckily, when the (older) architects I worked for back then were shown that the 'architecture' font was available within "the CAD system" they too found it ironic and chose not to use it.


thinking
Wishful Thinking might be a better title.


thinking
Pierre-Louis, I too thought of the Donatist controversy, (as preceding the Arian controversy), but I was more thinking of that controversy revolving around whether those Christian leaders who gave up the faith under the Great Persecution should be allowed back into the Church. I was not aware (or had just forgotten) about the return-of-property issue, which I find much more provocative in that after 326 Constantine began to condemn (and seize the property of, I assume) pagan cults with homosexual orientations.


thinking
While reading "Conservator Urbis: Maxentius in Rome" I was constantly thinking of Eutropia, Maxentius' mother, and thinking how Maxentius seems to have learned much from her (except who his real father was).


Altes Museum

Mausoleum of Constantina   Basilica of St. Agnes

Baths of Constantine

Château de Chambord

Fortifications of Florence

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti

House 10: Museum

Guggenheim Museum

Mausoleum of Constantina   Basilica of St. Agnes

Baths of Constantine

Château de Chambord

Fortifications of Florence

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti

House 10: Museum

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