tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71220652299506961462024-02-07T20:09:24.290+01:00the 'post-it' effect[ see 'precarious(ly)', 'impermanences' , 'reversible' and 'temporary'.]lys_http://www.blogger.com/profile/07455659887310618879noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122065229950696146.post-48618541751085515002013-01-30T23:59:00.000+01:002013-01-31T00:16:52.924+01:00What of opacity today ?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Going back in the history of architecture, following a brief stay in the t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rees and in the caves: there is the wall. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wall and its manifold turns upon itself gave birth to the enclosure, the first protection against aggressions of all kinds. And the first expression of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;">land ownership. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We may consider, then, that <i>the wall and its openings constitute the first among the initial principles of architecture, and the only one surviving today</i>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The miracle is that, despite sociological and technological upheavals, it is omnipresent and dominant in the minds of those specializing in human settlement on the planet. It is therefore legitimate to raise the essential issue, that of <i>opacity as the fundamental principle of architecture</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Transparency</em>, through glass and its substitutes. Stretched membranes, which act as<em> translucent surfaces</em> or as <em>sieves</em>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In arbitrating this confrontation, one criterion should be decisive: how to let solar light into inhabited places.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Architects thus automatically find themselves in charge of this arbitration, this choice. Through the artifices they invent, they determine how <em>light is conducted</em>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Accordingly, they are free to determine<em> the</em> new fundamental of current architecture. The object of this debate between fundamentals is to formulate one’s preference,<i> to state which manipulation should be used to arbitrate between opacity and transparency.</i></span></div>
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to consolidate the architecture of a system built on the sole mechanics of
material exchange and consumption, it crumbles.</span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">[ - Consider the un-organization of the spaces of <u>Third Landscape</u> as a
vital principle, thanks to which, each organized system lets itself be passed
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">- Consider the growth of spaces of <u>Third Landscape</u> originating from an
organization of the territory as necessary counterpoint to it. </span></span></div>
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as an engine of evolution.</span></span></div>
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joins the autonomous structures that contributed to its fall. It amalgamates
and undergoes a transformation at contact, helpless to impose its rule and
model, henceforth obsolete. This dispersed entity corresponds to an atomized
society obliged to invent new models of exchange, sharing and distribution for
material and immaterial goods</span></i><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 10pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the tree returns to the environment the energy it removes. Symbiotic man , by
adopting this model of operation, answers the question posed by the Planetary
Garden: « How to exploit diversity without destroying it? »</span></span></i></div>
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tree represents a strong model, stable and lasting,</span></i><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 10pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that of grass is closer to the fragile model, unstable and short-lived.
In reality, the two figures function in the same manner with regard to the
environment: by constant recycling of energy with no accumulation of waste
other than decomposable organic matter. (Vegetation, autotrophic, produces its
nourishment from solar energy and minerals resulting from the deterioration of
organic matter, rocks, etc.)</i></span></span><br />
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autonomous systems forms a « Milky Way », insuring its autonomy by
guaranteeing, for each entity: -a short circuit of production and distribution
of goods of greatest necessity -one or several local production centers for
energy permitting the systems to operate independently of any other such
system. -Systematic recycling, direct or indirect, of by-products resulting
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #262626; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore, each
system exchanges with its neighbors, near or far, all immaterial (or highly
necessary) goods impossible or difficult to find locally, necessary for the
cultural enrichment of this atomized society. Such a series of distant
exchanges, with regard to immaterial goods, and, to a lesser extent material
goods impossible to find locally, appears in grey on the drawing, tying the
remote systems together.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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exchange - near and far - correspond to a new economy functioning on the model
of trees and grass where all taken in nature is restored with no qualitative
deterioration, no matter what the form and level of transformation of this
restitution. This new economy is characteristic of symbiotic Man.</span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">]</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Cubism</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> does </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">not</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> want a banal description of the psychological meaning of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">bodies</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">events </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">from a specific</span> external standpoint<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">, rather it wants life itself! The cubist artist </span>is<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>in the middle of things<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">, they surround him, their abundance </span>brings him </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">happiness</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">their</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">never-resting</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">ever-moving</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">puzzling</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, autonomous life <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">is like an </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">intoxication</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">. No positivistic result,</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">no explanation,</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">no moral</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">and no application or a lesson - rather </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">glorification</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">admiration</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">adoration</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">[</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“Architecture lives both in the world of art and in the world of
technological performance. And from this face comes not only its bimodality but
also its anomalous and marginal character and its uneasy status in
universities. Architecture is a stranger in the modern university, a throwback
representing an epistemology of practice no longer dormant. Architecture
experiences real tension because of the place it occupies. On the one hand,
there is a strong pull to join with the</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> rest of the university in adopting the
model of technical rationality; on the other hand, there is the self-protecting
mystique of design.” <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_edn1" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title="">[i]</a></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it really fair to look for an essential or leading paradigm in the discipline of Architecture? When necessary, critique provides a satisfying intellectual reading to justify each of them. Thus, let's consider all of them as unuseful, yet necessary.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The word <i>un-useful </i>brings no
negative connotation, it just means that, because of its present complexity, architecture has overcome the simplifying dictates of functionalism; thus issues of functionality and efficiency are not anymore considered, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in themselves, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as the main goals of a good project, but occur as necessarily embedded in a broader
discourse that relies on contributions from different disciplines and research
fields.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the last decades also a
considerable amount of theory about the linguistic, theoretical and formal
content of architecture has been produced, side by side with practices demanding
an intellectual support, to reinvent new identities opposed to
the modernist establishment. As a result architecture has grown more complex
and trans-disciplinary than ever and architectural research has moved beyond
building practice. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This, somehow, affects the role of the architect and the future of the profession, s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ince the skills requested are increasingly growing. Effects of this fast development are particularly evident when looking at the world of architectural education where students, too often, are still subject to inadequate or stuffy teaching, when not otherwise committed to an excessive technicism or to the pursuit of a digital virtuosism. The latter, sometimes, proves to be naive when lacking of a proper education. So, what is the state of the architecture today? and, what should architectural teaching be concerned with?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is true that today the aesthetics of architecture has become an essential factor and, that real estate recognises as an important feature. This implies that a huge amount of both theory and practice has been, with a good reason, mainly devoted to studies on aesthetics and the emergence of form.
Otherwise, architecture has been merely concerned with a, sometimes rather dull, quest for
technological efficiency that matched scarce results in terms of poetic quality of space. Except for the ecological, and almost eschatological, concern
for green architecture and the reduction of energy waste (which on the other hand
has led some designers to a sort of environmentally-aware fanaticism) architecture
seems no more concerned with users and their needs. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Delving into the question, we find out that a number of issues have influenced this evolution, from the end of the Fordist age, that has marked, not only a shift in the paradigms of production, but also radical changes in politics and social behaviours.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In addition, the spread of a sense of panic and vulnerability (probably also a consequence of the worldwide shock that occurred after the enormous display of terrorist power of 9/11) has spurred the flourishing of a number of dystopian visions and, as often happens in an age of crisis, the architectural world has witnessed a divorce between theory and practice. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Escaping from a too complicated
reality, architects have withdrawn to the virtual world, a garden of delight
for avant-garde ideas, away from an often frustrating building practice. Based
primarily on digital design and mainly inspired by themes borrowed from fictional
scenarios, as well as from biology and natural sciences, this attitude has
driven architecture to a sort of dislocation of the virtual from the real and,
ultimately, to a solipsistic isolation of the discipline. We have nevertheless
come to the point where architectural fictional imageries have surpassed the
concept of avant-garde, widening the gap between the possibilities of the
virtual image and the actual production of architectural artefacts. Follows that, an excess of design (and
excess <i>in</i> design) has been, in some cases, interpreted as a lure to divert
minds from the state of crisis from which architecture is suffering. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On the other hand architecture’s
main duty is still to question about its commitments towards society and the actual value of its strategies, especially within the context of advanced
societies whose milieux have been radically modified by the massive use of web
devices that have altered traditional notions of distance and proximity
and, consequently social relations. Therefore, architectural design should be
concerned with empowering communication within the built environment in terms
of affective forms of human interaction, that is to say inducing a stimulation
of sensorial perception through a sensual encounter between people and spaces. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“Built upon love, architecture
engages the inhabitant as a true participant, unlike the remote spectator of
the modernist work of art or the consumer of fashionable buildings-cum-images.”
Whenever a space reaches a considerable communicative power, meets the user’s
expectations and acts as a boost for reactions on the subjects moving through
it. This quality marks the difference between a trendy design and the authentic
value of architecture, and comes out as a mix of an excellent knowledge of
architectural languages with subjective skills and sensibility that actually
transcends both linguistics and technicisms. <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_edn2" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title="">[ii]</a></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Going back to the issue of
architectural education, is remarkable that its current state has been, recently, the focus of many debates involving both academic institutions and influent
personalities from well-known professional practices. The argument is twofold; on
the one hand, the attack towards an educational system that is accused of pursuing
unrealistic scenarios and fails in producing profitable knowledge; on the other
hand, the ambiguity of certain attitudes towards extreme design, considered as equally questionable, when the actual pertinence to practice is overcome by a quite arbitrary exercise of experimental tools. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0e0e0e;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>“The (best?)
students of the current generation as well as their teachers seem to think that
the ordinary life processes of contemporary society are too boring to merit the
avant-garde’s attention. Instead we witness the invention of scenarios that are
supposedly more interesting than the challenges actually posed by contemporary
reality. The points of departure for the majority of projects are improbable
narratives with intended symbolic message or poetic import.” </i> <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_edn3" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title="">[iii]</a></span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1433/robxton.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="197" src="http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/1433/robxton.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">Robots of Brixton, winner of RIBA President’s Medals 2011 </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">People of an
older generation, like Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, or Jacques Herzog, look at the
computer as a tool, as a vehicle, and say, ‘Okay, what can this thing do for
me?’ I think the younger generation, or least those in my position, say, ‘What
can I do for you?"</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_edn4" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title="">[iv]</a></span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/9265/bigrender3medium2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/9265/bigrender3medium2.jpg" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Marjan Colletti; <i>CyberBaroque and other DigiTales</i>, 2008</span> </td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Concerns are also addressed to the very nature of architectural education and the necessity of a liberal education versus a technical training, which is accused to be too much professional oriented. Historically, architectural education has always been considered a liberal one, whose goals were not only to provide a kind of technical knowledge, but also to pursue a broader cultural education, which wasn’t focused exclusively on architectural practice.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><i>“The nobility of architecture has
always rested on the idea that it is a social art , whose purposes include, yet
transcend, the building of buildings. Architects, in short, are engaged in
designing the physical features and social spaces of our daily lives, which can
shape how productive, healthy, and happy we are both individually and
collectively. The profound and permanent impact of the architecture profession
demands an education non only highly technical and practical, but broad and
intellectually liberating as well.”</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_edn5" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[v]</span></a></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Recently, probably also due to the
shrinkage of the market that bettter sustains a more affordable well-trained expertise
to the detriment of qualified and over-educated figures, architecture is liable
to turn from being a liberal discipline, to a merely technical profession. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Such an outcome is not desirable. It
is clear that, due to the complexity of the discipline, architectural education
should neither stress too much on technical knowledge nor overdoing on
formalism for itself as most of a conceited, exuberant and ultimately vacuous,
design does. Rather, students should benefit of a trans-disciplinary education
by means of which they should be able to deal with different cultural issues,
get engaged in research teams together expertise from other disciplines and become able to manage all the elements which can help projects to succeed, not only in meeting people's
expectations, but also in suggesting new ones. That is to say, schools should be concerned with educating
students in both architectural discourse and techniques, within a democratic
combination of methodological mastery and free development of personal skills.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OMA/AMO; CRONOCAOS, Venice Biennale 2010</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">“We divide the entire field of
architecture into two parts: one is actual building, mud, the huge effort of
realizing a project; the other is virtual — everything related to concepts and
"pure" architectural thinking. The separation enables us to liberate
architectural thinking from architectural practice. That inevitably leads to a
further questioning of the need for architecture, but now our manner of
questioning has changed: first we did it through buildings; now we can do it
through intellectual activities parallel to building.” <span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_edn6" name="_ednref" title="">[vi]</a></span></span></i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><br /></span></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Another controversial issue concerns
the relationship between masters and students, which can be also extended to the plays of roles between a débutant trainee </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">at the beginning of the professional career,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"> and his/her expert supervisor. The effects of both methodological teaching strategies and independent contributions in the development of the subject’s
autonomy, focusing in particular on the process of interference on the master’s
side and on the possibility of a full mutual
comprehension within the creative process, are taken into account. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Henry Bergson says that knowledge is
given to humankind in two ways. The first possible knowledge is analytic,
meaning that it relies on the symbolic ground and is acquired by means of
comparisons with other known objects with which it shares some qualities. This
knowledge is relative and always open since <i>"it multiplies without end the
point of view in order to complete a representation which will be always
incomplete"</i>. Nevertheless, it is the only knowledge that can be shared and
communicated, transferred from one subject to another. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">On the other hand, the veritable
knowledge is only given by intuition; it is absolute and ensues from an immediate
coincidence between the subject and the object. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">"Seen from the inside an absolute is something simple, but seen
from the outside, then it is relative to another, it becomes in relation to
those signs that express it. Now,
what lends itself at the same time to an indivisible apprehension and an inexhaustible
enumeration is, by definition, an infinite. Follows that an absolute cannot be
given, if not by intuition, while all the rest depends on the analysis.
Intuition, we call here, the sympathy by means of which one is transported
within an object, so as to coincide with what it has unique and consequently,
inexpressible. The analysis, by contrast, is the operation that brings the
object to elements already known, common to this object and others. Analysis
consists, therefore, in expressing a thing as a function of what it is
not." <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_edn7" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[vii]</span></a></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Therefore in the creative process
the absolute is in no way transferable from a subject to another. In this process, absolute knowledge is
given through the immediacy of the subject’s figurative intuition, which
applies directly upon a subjective knowledge of the object. By means of this intuition the object
itself is modified by the subject’s projections. Since this process is not
transferable as an absolute, can’t become object of teaching. The only possible
communication goes back to the field of relative knowledge. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">A very distinguished contribution to
pedagogy comes from Jacques Ranciére. In his book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation</i>,
Ranciére questions the principle of the construction of knowledge. He claims
that any individual builds up knowledge through the same educational process by which he has learned his mother tongue, that is in fact
considered to be the condition of any other apprenticeship. Therefore, equality
between the two intelligences, the one of the master and the one of the
student, is the starting point and not the final aim of the educational
process. In fact, the role of the master is not that of “closing the gap”
between the ignorance of the student and his/her own mastery, but that of
fostering the student’s own intellectual growth by means of developing his/her
own equal intelligence. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">“</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">That pedagogical distance between
a determined ignorance and a determined knowledge is in fact a metaphor. It is
the metaphor of a radical break between the way of the ignorant and the way of
the master, the metaphor of a radical break between two intelligences. The
master cannot ignore than the so-called “ignorant” who is in front of him knows
in fact a lot of things, that he has learnt on its own, by looking and
listening around him, by figuring out the meaning of what he has seen and heard,
repeating what he has heard and known by chance, comparing what he discovers
with what he already knew and so on.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_edn8" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title="">[viii]</a> </span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span lang="EN-GB">This analysis of the educational process seems
to be particularly appropriate to architectural education since it is a
teaching engaged in a creative a process, that is to say it implies a
continuous dialectic between an initial idea of the student (one that he/she has developed of as a
sum of intuitions and analytic knowledge) and the notions delivered by the
master. But, if the master
considers the ignorant as a subject completely devoid of any significant previously acquired knowledge and ability, he will end up disregarding, if not suppressing, the student’s own
contribution, eventually impeding the development of his equal intelligence.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"> “</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">The first
knowledge that the master owns is the “knowledge of ignorance”. It is the
presupposition of a radical break between two forms of intelligence. This is
also the first knowledge that he transmits to the student: the knowledge that
he has to be explained to in order to understand, the knowledge that he cannot
understand on his own. It is the knowledge of his incapacity. In that way,
progressive instruction is the endless verification of its starting point: inequality.
That endless verification of inequality is what Jacotot calls the process of
stultification. The opposite of stultification is emancipation. Emancipation is
the process of verification of the </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB">equality of intelligence.”<span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_edn9" name="_ednref" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title="">[ix]</a> </span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span lang="EN-GB">The master who pursues stultification instead of emancipation, in fact is not only responsible for the
underdevelopment of the student’s skill, but he is also guilty for impeding him in the creative
process. Therefore, this kind of
education turns to be a limitation of the original possibility of the ignorant
to learn by his own means. Finally it can be considered as a process that
produces subjects qualified to work only on the execution of other’s
prescriptions and not properly trained to set up and verify their own knowledge’s
constructions. This explains the necessity of research, speculation and debate
within the educational system.
Whether the teaching process relies on the personal skill (that is the
absolute knowledge of the master which he will always try to communicate in
vain) or on the automatic delivery of his acquired technical knowledge, the
student's outcomes will be, with a good chance, extremely poor and
insufficient; eventually promoting a subjugation of an intelligence that can’t
produce any advancement in society. The master who pursues instead the
emancipation of the students tries to operate in order to encourage them to
reach the best synthesis between their creative intuition and the analytic
research. To operate this way the
master will recognise that his own knowledge is incomplete, just as equally insufficient
is a strict disciplinary specialization. </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black;">“The distance that the “ ignorant” has to cover is not the gap between
his ignorance and the knowledge of the master. It is the way between what he
already knows and what he still does not know but can learn by the same
process. To help him to cover it, the “ignorant master” needs not to be ignorant.
He only has to dissociate his knowledge from his mastery. He does not teach his
knowledge to the students. He commands them to venture forth in the forest, to
tell what they see, what they think of what they have seen, to check it and so
on.” </span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">The only kind education that can prevent students from subjugation
and/or from a mere collection of fragmented knowledge is the one that promotes trans-disciplinary
discourse and a free development of individual skills. Only by means of a
liberal education and cultural debate, the educational system can be able form
emancipated individuals provided with the awareness and abilities which are
necessary to foster an authentic development of the discipline, then an
advancement for society.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_ednref" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[i]</span></a>
Ernest
L. Boyer and Lee D. Mitgang; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Building Community:
A New Future for Architecture Education and Practice: a special report</i>; Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1996<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_ednref" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[ii]</span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> </span>Alberto Pérez Gómez"; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Built
Upon Love: Architectural Longing After Ethics And Aesthetics</i> ; The MIT
press, 2006</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">
</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_ednref" name="_edn3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[iii]</span></a> Patrik Schumacher; <i>Schumacher slams British Architectural Education</i>; The Architectural Review, January 2012</span></div>
<div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_ednref" name="_edn4" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[iv]</span></a><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Hernan
Diaz-Alonso ; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">My Work Is Like Salt</i> ,
interview with Jeffrey Inaba, C-Lab Columbia Laboratory for Architectural
Broadcasting </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;">(<a href="http://c-lab.columbia.edu/index.html">http://c-lab.columbia.edu/index.html</a>)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_ednref" name="_edn5" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[v]</span></a>
Donald
A. Schön; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Architectural Studio As An
Exemplar Of Education For Reflection In Action</i>, Journal of Architectural
Education, 1984</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7122065229950696146#_ednref" name="_edn6" style="mso-endnote-id: edn;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference">[vi]</span></a>
Rem
Koolhaas: interview with Jennifer Sigler; Index Magazine, 2000. (<a href="http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/rem_koolhaas.shtml">http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/rem_koolhaas.shtml</a>)</span></div>
<div>
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Henri
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Most works of architecture can be read through the distribution of their inner pathways both in terms of user's cognition of their spatial structures and in terms of easiness and efficacy of the covered distance . This analysis can be assumed as an extremely important information in the particular case of building which are the actual transposition of its pathways. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Jamarat bridge is a very peculiar example of pathway architecture. It is a pedestrian bridge built in Mina, near Mecca, one of the main destination of the Hajj where the stoning of the devil ritual is performed each year by an huge number of pilgrims. The first bridge, built in 1963, was a viaduct whose aim was to drive pilgrims to an upper level so they could throw stones to the three jamrah pillars according to the ritual. In the span of about 40 years more than 1000 pilgrims got killed because of the incredible crowding conditions. In 2004, after about 346 pilgrims got killed and 300 more injured, Saudi authorities decided to demolish the bridge.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Jamarat Bridge can be considered one of the most dangerous piece of architecture ever produced. An infrastructure of death where the accident meets the ritual. The stoning of the devil's ritual is actually connected to the myth of Abraham and his opposition to the devil's attempts to prevent him from sacrificing his son Ismael as an offering to God. Ismael was eventually substituted with a sheep as a award for Abraham's faith. On the Jamarat Bridge the ritual of stoning has been performed for a long time paying the highest price in terms of human sacrifice. This would have been assumed as a proof of the actual risk of which each islamic pilgrim who's undertaking the pilgrimage must be aware of. The Hajj is indeed a proof of the pilgrim's preparedness to die as was Abraham's preparedness to kill, and ultimately represents a ritual simulation of Jihad. An architecture which provokes stress conditions, panic and even danger is one of the strongest means of cultural transmission and indoctrination. In this perspective the decision to demolish the old bridge in order to rebuild a safe structure by means of the most advanced technology and of an intelligent design approach, is not a mere eventuality. It marks a more or less conscious but still fundamental shift from religious to secularized architecture. An architectural paradigm based on safety control replaces the former one which relied on the power of the panic-induced control. Therefore, the "be prepared" message of Hijj is eventually performed exclusively as a symbolic ritual. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">readings and web:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">S. Truby, EXIT-ARCHITECTURE design between war and peace (Wien, 2008)</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Blanc</i> absolu. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"></span></div><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i> Blanc</i> par-dessus toute blancheur. </span></div><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> Blanc</i> de l’avènement du <i>blanc</i>. </span></div><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> Blanc</i> sans compromis, par exclusion, par totale éradication du non-<i>blanc</i>. </span></div><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> Blanc</i> fou, exaspéré, criant de <i>blancheur</i>. </span></div><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Fanatique, furieux, cribleur de rétine. </span></div><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i> Blanc</i> électrique atroce, implacable assassin.</span></div><div style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i>Blanc</i> à rafales de <i>blanc</i>.</span></div><blockquote style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"></blockquote><div style="color: #111111; font-family: 'times new roman', san-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><span style="list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"> [Henri Michaux, L’Espace du dedans]</span></div><br />
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[It is banal to devote oneself to an end when that end is clearly only a means. The quest for wealth - sometimes the wealth of egoistic individuals, sometimes wealth held in common - is obviously only a means. Work is only a means. </div>
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The response to erotic desire - and to perhaps more human (least physical) desire of poetry, and of ecstasy ( but is so decisively easy to grasp the difference between eroticism and poetry, and between eroticism and ecstasy?) - <i>the response to erotic desire is, on the contrary, an end</i>.] </div>
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Screenshots from A. Resnais' <i>Hiroshima mon Amour</i> and Kieslowski's <i>A short film about Love</i>.<br />
<i>To remember/To forget</i>: opposite states of consciousness are pursued by means of superimposition of a self-inflicted pain on erotic response.<br />
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That is precisely what we do not know!</div>
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<i>the opening of our consciousness to ward possibility beyond measure, </i></div>
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<i>tireless and beyond measure.</i></div>
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And precisely what is consciousness?</div>
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That is precisely what we do not know.</div>
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It is nothingness.</div>
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A nothingness</div>
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when we do not know something</div>
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from what side</div>
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we do not know it</div>
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consciousness,</div>
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but there are a hundred thousand other sides.</div>
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it is the appetite for food</div>
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as if there were not people who eat</div>
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without any sort of appetite;</div>
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<i>For this too</i></div>
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lys_http://www.blogger.com/profile/07455659887310618879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122065229950696146.post-79909251525252333602011-08-14T21:49:00.001+02:002011-08-14T21:51:48.525+02:00Living in the digital ecosystem - MIT News Office<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6218/201107191651131.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6218/201107191651131.jpg" /></a></div><a href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/linkedin-hoffman-talk-0720.html#.TkgmvcsUz9I.blogger">Living in the digital ecosystem - MIT News Office</a>lys_http://www.blogger.com/profile/07455659887310618879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122065229950696146.post-84961846277860498492011-08-06T23:58:00.005+02:002011-08-08T11:16:19.993+02:00great builders!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>…This is not another greenish cant! <u>STAR strategies+architecture </u>unmasks hypocrisy behind sustainability fever, scoffing at the most worshipped architecture's sacred cow.<br />
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And it goes even more twisted when it comes to Auschwitz camp's houses graciously shrouded with the greenest ivy!<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">The</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">Green</span></span></span></em></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">is the common lie, the secret consensus, the perfect crime...</span></span></span></span><br />
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Don't you feel reassured looking at a green Monumento Continuo? well, if you felt prudish before the naked body of architecture, keep calm: now it's dressed in green! Polite, correct and sustainable…<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">Green is the new black!</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9356/7monumentocontinuo760x4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/9356/7monumentocontinuo760x4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Finally <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">O'Mighty Green</span> will save us all. Even has the power to redeem pornography…so, here comes <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;">Green Porno</span>! Isabella Rossellini's sexy short documentaries series…funny and sultry with a twist of surreal.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Raleway, Trebuchet, sans-serif; line-height: 24px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 24px;">In short, the "D" collection is actually a piece of software. The D.dress app lets you draw a dress, turns it into a 3D model, and exports a cutting pattern to make the real dress, sized to your measurements. A laser cutter or plotter cuts the pattern out of fabric, which is then sewn into the dress. All the designs are unified around the theme of the little black dress, and the triangulation used in the software. This allows basically everyone to create their own innovative dress design."</span></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/2983/schermata20110511a12383.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="61" src="http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/2983/schermata20110511a12383.png" width="200" /></a><a href="http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7889/schermata20110511a12385.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="49" src="http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/7889/schermata20110511a12385.png" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/4863/schermata20110511a12374.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="68" src="http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/4863/schermata20110511a12374.png" width="200" /></a></div>lys_http://www.blogger.com/profile/07455659887310618879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122065229950696146.post-71382057584562374152011-05-10T18:19:00.009+02:002011-05-10T21:27:16.571+02:00Seeing pattern everywhere!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/8520/patternitylinearface.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/8520/patternitylinearface.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">TREASURE WHAT MIGHT OFTEN GO UNNOTICED</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">LOOK UP WHEN YOU SHOULD BE LOOKING DOWN</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">FIND BEAUTY IN THE BANAL</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">STOP TO WONDER WHEN YOU SHOULD BE WALKING PAST</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">GO SLOW WHEN YOU SHOULD BE GOING FAST</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">VENTURE INTO THE UNKNOWN</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">GLORIFY THE NON-PLACE</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2264/patternitykaleidoscoper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" src="http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2264/patternitykaleidoscoper.jpg" /></span></a></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">PATTERNS ARE EVERYWHERE, FROM THE MUNDANE TO THE MAGNIFICENT</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">SEE</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">INSPIRE</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">IMPLEMENT</span></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">ENJOY</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/6951/patternitygridgridlegsc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/6951/patternitygridgridlegsc.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;">/// /// ///</div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.patternity.co.uk/">http://www.patternity.co.uk/</a></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>lys_http://www.blogger.com/profile/07455659887310618879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122065229950696146.post-62370783284469525792011-05-09T01:04:00.003+02:002011-09-29T21:55:00.706+02:00Homage to Gilles Deleuze<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;">[Essay about the smooth and the striated]</div><br />
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</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dear Friend of FOA,</em></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We are writing to inform you that after 16 years of successful collaboration we have agreed to split Foreign Office Architects (FOA) into two separate practices. FOA itself will cease to exist from around 28 April 2011. Over the past few years, we have both developed individual interests which we now wish to pursue via independent practices. Farshid Moussavi will be practising as Farshid Moussavi Architecture Limited and Alejandro Zaera-Polo will be practising as AZPA Limited.</em></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">All current work for current clients will continue smoothly and all FOA staff will be offered<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />positions in the two new practices.</em></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We would both like to thank you for your support and help for FOA over the years and hope that opportunities may arise for either or both of our successor practices to work with you in the future.</em></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Yours sincerely</em></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Farshid Moussavi</em></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Alejandro Zaera-Polo</em></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</i></div>lys_http://www.blogger.com/profile/07455659887310618879noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122065229950696146.post-50693329778990974072011-04-09T13:03:00.000+02:002011-04-09T13:03:49.326+02:00Threnos<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> of Dorian Gray </span><br />
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