16 August

1540 death of Sir James Hamilton
1557 birth of Agostino Caracci

1824 Charles Willson Peale's "Blackberry Rambles"
1867 the Capella del Rosario, by Vittoria at the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo (Venice), containing the picture of Peter Martyr by Titian, was burned
1878 death of Richard Upjohn

Redrawing History outline notes
1997.08.16     5397d   e

Redrawing History - own incentive
1997.08.16     e2751 e2759 e2908 e2924

Redrawing History - Piranesi's reenactment
1997.08.16     e2543 e2745 e2908 e2909

Redrawing History - archeological accuracy
1997.08.16     e2543 e2682 e2726 e2756 e2815 e2823 e2908 e3087

Redrawing History - fertilized architecture
1997.08.16     e2522 e2691 e2692 e2886 e2908 e3016 e3106 3792b 4401

(Helena) EPICENTRAL
2001.08.16 10:06     3711 3727b 5093 8210f

Measuring Downtown's Future
2002.08.16

Re: 1000 Kunstler
2002.08.16 13:49     3775f 3811t 4011j

Re: closing the visible space
2003.08.16 09:39     2060 3748d 3775g

Re: iron curtain
2003.08.16 10:35     3775g 3811t

Re: pointers
2003.08.16 15:11     2060 2081 3775g

Big up your home urban conurbation
2005.08.16 10:42     4010y

the agnostic design of spiritual space
2005.08.16 11:28     3716f 3749h 3775i 4015i 4401d 4706
2005.08.16 11:41     2210 4013l 4015i 4706
2005.08.16 12:57     2210 4015i
2005.08.16 13:21     2210
2005.08.16 18:16     3784i

Adam (sans Eve) in the Garden of Satire
2008.08.16 13:46     3333f

Postmodernism sucks... discuss
2009.08.16 12:01     3332g 3749r 3770z 3774d 3775o 3787e 4017h 4017i
2009.08.16 14:07     3332g 3749r 3770z
2009.08.16 15:44     3332g 3739g 3751d 3765e 3770z
2009.08.16 18:06     3332g 3749r 3771 3775p 4017i

hence creative ingenuity
2009.08.16 12:42     3304l 3332g 3736s 3749r 3771 5809e

So, How's Architecture These Days?
2010.08.16 17:43     3331x

Architecture and Reproduction
2011.08.16 10:59     3331o

16 August
2013.08.16 11:45     3304k 3304l

Invisible Architecture
2013.08.16 12:06     4015p

16 August
2015.08.16 15:55     3312e 3710p 3710q

Style of Texas homes in the 1980s
2015.08.16 19:48     3312f 3747q

Architecture of Segregation
2015.08.16 20:41     3312f

The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
2022.08.16     8001e

BIG   The Big U - Rebuild by Design   New York City

Carme Pinós   CaixaForum   Zaragoza



2002.08.16 13:49
Re: 1000 Kunstler
Interesting how Denise Scott Brown mentions "A small church or synagogue, set within a row of town houses or surrounded by office buildings, holds its own with dignity" in her editorial/op-ed piece on development of Lower Manhattan in today's NYTimes.


2003.08.16 09:39
Re: closing the visible space
In Durand's Recueil et parallèle des édifices de tout genre, anciens & modernes, remarquables par leur beauté, par leur grandeur ou par leur singularité, 1800, where a 'history' of architecture is presented via plans and elevations all drawn at the same scale and categorized by type (ie, temples, churches, palaces, theaters, etc.), the only building/structure larger than St. Peter's Basilica is the Great Pyramid of Giza--the Great Pyramid originally reached a height of 480 ft.; St. Peter's reaches 452 ft.; the U.S Capitol reaches 287.5 ft. From this 'record', it is likely safe to say that St. Peter's is the largest hollow stone/masonry building.

2003.08.16 10:35
Re: iron curtain
M., the Iron Curtain was certainly real/physical between East and West Germany. From the two Germanys, the Iron Curtain proceeded south all the way to the Adriatic Sea, ending between Trieste, Italy and Yugoslavia. A writer took a specific journey along the entire length of the Iron Curtain--before the book was published, much of it was first printed in the New Yorker (1983 or 84) in three parts (which is what I read). I seem to recall that the "fence" was mostly real and contiguous from north to south, although the severity of the 'curtain' and what it manifest and represented gradually diminished the further south it was.
I traveled (by car) through two (of the three?) checkpoints between the West and East German border in May 1990. [These checkpoints are not to be confused with the 'famous' Alpha, Bravo and Charlie Checkpoints--A and B between West Berlin and East Germany, and Charlie specifically between East and West Berlin. I went through A, B and C, plus I crossed over the Glienike Bridge between West Berlin and Potsdam--this is the bridge were spies were famously traded.] The Iron Curtain was very real at these points. This was an interesting time because the Berlin Wall was already coming down, but there were still two Germany's, thus the 'checking' at the checkpoints (for all Germans at least) was relatively lax, although the whole 'apparatus' was still in place. In fact, at my final crossing from East to West at Erfurt, the gates were just open and there were no guards anywhere to be seen.


2003.08.16 15:11
Re: pointers
There is a very good scale comparison of "shopping" places, from Trajan's Market (110 AD) to Super K-Mart (1997) within the Harvard School of Design Guide to Shopping--this is for sure a continuation of Durand's method.


2005.08.16 11:28
the agnostic design of spiritual space
I have some ideas about how to design sacred space, and they have to do with making it osmotic and electromagnetic. Some of Kahn's best architecture is osmotic and electromagnetic.

07081601 Trivilla Savoye plans   2370i22
07081602 Trivilla Savoye perspectives   2385i01   b
07081603 Villa Savoye model reduced jambs   2370i23   b
07081604 Trivilla Savoye model   2385i02
07081605 Trivilla Savoye perspectives   2385i03


2009.08.16 12:01
Postmodernism sucks... discuss
...where we see Postmodern architecture related to the growing trend of realism in film (including cinematic pornography). Not exactly a parallel development, but more where realism in films opened up designers/architect's minds to a more realistic approach to designing buildings/environments. Prior to realism, most films were an adapted form of theater/stage production. Realism in film presented 'real' situations within 'real' settings. [Yes, there is the omnipresent irony of films themselves not being real to begin with.]
aside: Does anyone else remember the paparazzi catching Jackie O. after she saw I am Curious (yellow).
Outside the stage directions of the Modern Movement there is the quickly found serendipity of everyday living/experience, and this realm of no clear rules beyond the immediate context of the situation made it easy for (what Portoghesi called) 'the end of prohibitionism'.
Postmodern architecture would not have happened without a certain frame of mind, and that frame of mind was becoming more and more prevalent within films of the later 1960s and 1970s.
Strictly within architecture itself, Scully, in 'How things got to be the way they are now', finds the genesis of Postmodern architecture with Kahn and Kahn's Beaux Arts education and Roman-ness (wrapped together via Piranesi's plan of the Campo Marzio).
It seems worth noting that the two most significant architects to come out of the 'Strada Novissima' are Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas/OMA.

2009.08.16 14:07
Postmodernism sucks... discuss
I think you have to first define what 'that' is.
Otherwise, architecture still pretty much operates within the 'realm of no clear rules beyond the immediate context of the situation'.


2009.08.16 15:44
Postmodernism sucks... discuss
Many of the architects who utilized "the application of content and forms and motifs that are deliberately identifiable in cultural and historical terms" 30 years ago still design that way today (if they are still active and/or alive).
The first Greenaway film I saw was The Draughtsman's Contract in 1983, 27 years ago, and that's the kind of murder mystery I'm talking about.
The first Tarantino film I saw was Pulp Fiction in 1994 and soon after that architecture started becoming very virtual.


2009.08.16 18:06
Postmodernism sucks... discuss
Of course architecture and film evolve for the most part independently, as I already referenced Scully and Kahn above.
The relation between film and postmodern architecture I'm here discussing is not one where the architecture emulates the films, rather architects took on the 'realist' frame of mind of 60s and 70s films, again where there are no clear rules beyond the immediate context of the situation.
Architecture today is still very eclectic, diverse even, and, perhaps more now that ever, there are no clear rules beyond the immediate context of the situation.

2009.08.16 12:42
hence creative ingenuity
creative: the vast majority of more recent residential architecture.
ingenutiy: the more recent residential projects of Koolhaas/OMA.


14081601   BIG   The Big U - Rebuild by Design   New York City
14081602   Carme Pinós   CaixaForum   Zaragoza


15081601 Parkway Interpolation Philadelphia true north 4400x8800 site plan   3392ui43
15081602 Parkway Interpolation Philadelphia true north 4400x8800 site plan full street grid   3392ui44


17081601 surface models work   2462i12
17081602 Porticus Neroniani skeleton circle/square juncture diagram   2393i12
17081603 Ottopia skeleton plans   2349i06


18081601 Eclectic Houses Early Renaissance model work   223ai16
18081602 Eclectic Houses Palladian model work   223ai17
18081603 Eclectic Houses Furnessesque model work   223ai18


19081601 iq14 Philadelphia street map overlay   2093i100
19081602 iq18 Philadelphia street map overlay   2093i101
19081603 iq22 Philadelphia street map overlay   2093i102
19081604 iq26 Philadelphia street map overlay   2093i103
19081605 diptych plans   2197i20
19081606   museum collecting Hadrian's Villa Farnsworth House Glass House Eames House Painting Gallery Sculpture Gallery Pond Pavilion Library Maison de l'Homme House 10: Museum Wall House 2 Atheneum plans site plan   2171i07





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