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Theory Part II - Doing What I Said I Would Do...
2007.03.25 22:29
I'm all for having my thinking (about architecture) change via elucidating theory.
You know what changed my thinking about Tafuri? It was the discovery that everything he writes about Piranesi's Campo Marzio is plain wrong and thus a bunch of misinterpretation.
And you know what changed my thinking about today's ongoing architectural theorists? It's their manifest ignorance via their ignoring.
Iron man as sloppy seconds.
Who knew?
I did.
And speaking of sloppy. Progetto e Utopia was first published in 1973, with the English translation Architecture and Utopia published in 1976.
Otherwise, there's a whole chapter entitled "Sketches cum Napkins", but, you know, it's really more fun for me to see just how ignorant architectural theory can actually get.
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