German doors?
1999.07.23 09:32
Your parenthetical reference to osmotic has not escaped me. Indeed it surprised me, especially since you point out a very interesting example of that inside/outside, permeable space that manifests the osmotic in architecture. I know that I from time to time have posted (vague?) ideas about the osmotic (metabolic, etc.) in architecture, but I didn't think any of it was much considered by others. Seeking out the osmotic in architecture is a rewarding experience. So far, the best gauge I can come up with is to see the Pantheon in Rome and Kahn's Kimbell Art Gallery and Schinkel's stair hall (German doors?) of the Altes Museum as osmotic at the high end, and an open bus stop at the low end. There's lots of in-between stuff out there, and, of course, it would be great if architects began to consciously create osmotic spaces.
990723a.db House in Laguna 001, model
990723b.db Wacko House 001, perspectives
990723c.db Wacko House 001, perspectives
990723d.db Zany House 001, 002, Suburban Poché, plans
99072305.db Acropolis Q, perspectives
99072306.db House in Laguna 001, plans, elevations, axonometrics, perspectives
99072307.db House in Laguna 001, plans
99072308.db Wacko House 001, model
99072309.db Wacko House 001, plans
99072310.db Wacko House 002, plans
blob and box
2000.07.23
...about Corbu's Olivetti Headquarters design as the first manifetation of blob and box, and Stirling's Olivetti Headquarters as the second manifestation of the blob and box.
aesthetic correction
2001.07.23 10:15
I'm almost finished reading Gerhard Kopf's Piranesi's Dream...
...a excerpt I thought this list might find inducing:
"But even worse was to come. I was assused of reveling in the ugly. What humbug! The theory of the fine arts, the legislation of good taste, the science of aesthetics were already highly developed and thoroughly refined in my time. Only the concept of the ugly, although they touched upon it everywhere, had remained behind. And actually what is ugly exists insofar as what is beautiful does. What is ugly comes into being from and with the beautiful. It is indignant at what is beautiful and likes to form an alliance with what is comical. In Nature what is ugly exists as little as what is beautiful or straight lines do, and it is a mistake to consider disease a cause of what is ugly. The realm of the ugly is much larger than the realm of sensual phenomena in general. Beautiful and ugly are not value opposites, rather at best opposites of stimulation. Concerning anything that is ugly it must be said that the relationship to what is beautiful that is neglected by it is included. Only what is ugly guarentees the aesthetic correction of tradition."
Just think about how true (and perhaps even axiomatic) that last sentence really is.
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Koolhaas reenacting Kahn/Tyng?
2001.07.23 10:57
There is an striking resemblence between the Koolhaas/OMA Seattle Public Library and Louis Kahn's and Anne Tyng's Muncipal Administrative Building project from 1956-57, a design for downtown Philadelphia.
  
Could it be that Koolhaas has moved on from reenacting late unbuilt Le Corbusier and American Mies, and is now finding inspiration in early unbuilt Kahn?
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06072301.db Romaphilia, Philadelphia, perspective
Selling Out: Architects and their Archives
2007.07.23 09:54
commodify the artifact
virtualize and open source the archive
07072301.db Domestic Museum, Villa Rotunda, elevations
07072302.db Domestic Museum, Wagner House, model
07072303.db Domestic Museum, Retreat House, model
07072304.db Domestic Museum, Goldenberg House, model
11072301.db Chandigarh Capital Complex , plans
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