2000.12.13
aesthetics and imagination
"It is common place to say that the eighteenth-century marks a turning point in the history of aesthetics. M. H. Abrams (1953) has shown how this was the period when the predominant metaphor of the mind as a mirror reflecting external reality began to give way to that of the mind as a lamp which radiates its own inner light onto the object it perceives. The artist is no longer seen as a craftsman-like imitator of nature, but as an inspired genius who brings new worlds into being, spontaneously generating original creations out of the depth of his own mind."
from the editor's introduction to Cocking's Imagination, p. vii.
As we begin the 21st century, is the "predominant metaphor of the [artistic] mind" still a "lamp which radiates its own inner light onto the object it perceives?"
031213a PMA with flattened Ionic columns 2142i02
031213b Parkway quadrant model (031208b.db) plus Logan Circle sidewalks 2330i08 b
2003.12.13 16:42
which Acropolis do you prefer?
The Acropolis as used by the ancient Greeks?
The Acropolis as used by the ancient Romans?
The Acropolis when the Parthenon was used as a Christian Church dedicated to Mary?
The Acropolis when the Turks used the Parthenon as a munitions magazine (hence the 17th century explosion that pretty much wrecked the place)?
The Acropolis as mass tourist destination with the Parthenon ruins slowly being further destroyed by air-pollution?
Multiple choice, I'm sure.
06121301 Acropolis Q model 2360i19
06121302 Acropolis Q axonometrics perspectives 2266i10
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This...
...reminds me of this.
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2012.12.13 12:42
13 December
within the last twelve hours:
Writing Rome: Textual approaches to the city (again) . . . All Over the Map . . . "New Inquisitions on Architecture: From pluralism to narrative" . . . By leaving ideologies behind, architecture may fall into nihilism or else dissolve into a narrative dimension. Only through the mediation of a mythographic interpretation will the treatise and Utopia return to become part of the novel of architecture. . . . "Surrender: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Senart" . . . another, this time closer, look at Patent Office
Found out this morning I successfully bid on this...
October 1977
"In 1978 [sic], one of the covers of Progressive Architecture looked almost exactly like this, and the copy-cats were now uncontrollably out of the bag. I remember professors in school being literally afraid that students will start doing the same thing."
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14121301 Ichnographia Campus Martius 1100x550 plan 2110i00
14121302 San Stefano 1100x550 plan image attached atemporal 2404i16
14121303 Villa Madama 1100x550 plan image attached atemporal 2404i17 b
14121304 Laurentian Library 1100x550 plan section image attached atemporal 2404i18
14121305 Fortification of Florence 1100x550 plan atemporal 2404i19
14121306 Campidoglio 1100x550 plan image attached atemporal 2404i20
14121307 Michelangelo's St. Peter's Basilica 1100x550 plan image attached atemporal 2404i21
14121301 OMA Exhibiton Centre Lujiazui
16121301 GAUA 104 schematic plan first level cubes 2458i06 b
16121302 GAUA 104 level one wireframe 2458i07
17121301 Kunsthaus Graz plans section 2331i01
18121301 GAUA09 Thermae Helenae Maison de M.X. Fruchter House Tower for Princeton Memorial Park House for Karl Friedrich Schinkel 003 Villa Geerlings Working Title Museum 002 Villa Plus Ultra GAUA 001 Plus All Three House plans placed 2429i349
18121302 GAUA06 Minerva Medica Basilica of Maxentius/Constantine Villa Baizeau Crown Hall Monastery of La Tourette Phillip Exeter Library Il Teatro del Mondo ICA House Seattle Central Library Wave Wall House Maisons Dom-ino 2018 plans placed 2429i350
18121304 GAUA11 Arch of Constantine Tugendhat House De Vore House Kimbell Art Museum National Museum of Roman Art Analogous Building Working Title Museum 004 Savoye Shadows Annexation plans placed 2429i352
18121301 OFFICE Yale Union Portland
19121301 30th Street Station Railyard REMs wireframe opaque 2430i19
20121301 iqq14 plan work images 2468i112
20121302 iqq14 plan 2468i113
20121303 iqq18 plan work images 2468i114
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