10 October

1367 William of Wykeham consecrated Bishop of Winchester

1578 death of Jean Bullant

1720 death of Antoine Coysevox

1853 death of Pierre François Léonard Fontaine

Plea for Euclid - some comments
2000.10.10 10:54     3770c

Phenomenology
2005.10.10 09:30     e2800b e274a e2909c 3727e

swarm theory in architecture
2005.10.10 12:43     5128

Did deconstruction turn into blobitecture some time in the 90's?
2011.10.10 09:46     3331l

10 October
2013.10.10 12:53     3305m 3720g 3771h

Steven Holl Architects   ChinPaoSan Necropolis   Taipei City



2013.10.10 12:53
10 October


Since yesterday, I've been working on two Quondam projects simultaneously: First, there's [re]drawing the plans (above) of Le Corbusier's Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti at Rho-Milan (1963-64). Second, there's the compilation of Maison Dom-ino data (Le Corbusier, 1914) within Quondam's collection. The Maison Dom-ino plan is shown below relative to the Olivetti Center plan.

A CAD model of Maison Dom-ino has been part of Quondam's collection since 1991, and the present data compilation process is to record and exhibit how and why Maison Dom-ino is a part of Quondam's collection, and how Maison Dom-ino continues to spur on new data within the collection.
It was not until this morning, however, that Maison Dom-ino and Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti data have been combined.







You could say Maison Dom-ino and Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti respectively represent the beginning and the end of Le Corbusier's architectural career--a span of almost exactly 50 years. Strange, too, to realize that the Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti design itself is now 50 years old, and that Maison Dom-ino will be 100 years old next year. I want to write something about how the plans seen together demonstrate an intense evolution in Le Corbusier's design thinking/ability, if not also an intense evolution of modern architecture itself. The plans more or less 'speak' for themselves, but bear in mind that the Olivetti design, for the most part, still adheres to the Maison Dom-ino paradigm of column support, slab, and independent circulation. Moreover, the Olivetti design is a composite of the various design directions the Maison Dom-ino paradigm is capable of going into.
I'll stop now, but obviously there's a lot more here to consider, not least of which is whether the past 50 years of architecture['s evolution] even relates to the Maison Dom-ino paradigm anymore.

13101001   Maison Dom-ino Electronic Calculation Center Olivetti at Rho-Milan plans persective axonometric model   2140i10
13101002 Maison Dom-ino Legacy plans   2140i11
13101003 Monastery of La Tourette plan   2178i04


14101001   Steven Holl Architects   ChinPaoSan Necropolis   Taipei City


15101001   Hadrian's Villa new plans   206ki05   b   c


17101001 Palace of Versailles and Park plans image   2092i15
17101002 Notre Dame du Haut site plan plan model image   217ui01
17101003 Notre Dame du Haut site plan plan elevations section image   217ui02


18101001 IQ15 hyperarchitecturism Analogous Museum of Architecture Acropolis of Contemporary Art ASouq Neighborhoods House for Karl Friedrich Schinkel 004 House for Karl Friedrich Schinkel 001 Dresdner Bank Housing for La Villette Wallraf-Richartz Museum Breslauer Platz Leicester University Engineering Building Ichnographia Campus Martius Philadelphia Tempietto Baths of Constantine Stonehenge plans   247bi04


19101001 Berlin 1958 iqq18 plan work   217ii20
19101002 Simmons Hall elevation work   234ai02



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