From: Brian Carroll
To: design-l
Subject: Re: venturi and koolhaas
Date: 2002.04.17 13:30
[Ron wrote: the thoughts about order and the strip were indeed questioning architectural order, but not of the strip, rather of its antithesis, the traditional city, and not so much outright questioning, as analysis in an attempt to expand understanding. something to the effect of "is not chaos just an order that we do not perceive? is there not an order underlying what is conventionally understood to be the "chaos" of sprawl?]
[this bothers me to do, but what else are spammers good for these days... wrote about the issues above about 2 years ago referencing the idea Ron writes about, 'an order we do not perceive' which is proposed in the texts below as the e-infrastructure. delete at will.]
R O B E R T V E N T U R I
Robert Venturi is a teacher, architect, and author whose work has helped to prepare the way for recognizing the ELECTRICAL ORDER as an ARCHITECTURAL ORDER within our everyday BUILT ENVIRONMENT. In the "brilliant and liberating" 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Venturi is said to have provided ARCHITECTs with "more realistic and effective weapons" for breadth and relevance in the ARCHITECTURAL dialogue. (122n) We recontextualize Venturi's argument and reasoning herein with respect to ELECTRICITY.
http://www.electronetwork.org/works/ae/overview/towards/frag/vent1/ltop.htm
V E N T U R I E T A L
"Viva an electronic aesthetic..." (160.5)
In 1972 the educators Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour published Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form. The book is split into two parts. Part I is an ARCHITECTURAL exploration and analysis of Las Vegas, Nevada, in the United States. Part II is a general treatise on symbolism in ARCHITECTURE.
http://www.electronetwork.org/works/ae/overview/towards/frag/vent2/ltop.htm | |
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