October 2011
1 post
“The longing to become a source of events affects each man like a mental disorder...”
– -
E.M. Cioran, A Short History of Decay
September 2011
1 post
Frame Analysis
August 2011
3 posts
Wall House
-John Hejduk
Breaker Archaeology
Aztec Stone
The forces harnessed and unharnessed by creation; birth and destruction united in a single being; the beginning and end of all; illumination and death. This is the goddess Coatlicue, who wears a skirt of serpents, which are jets of blood; who consumes filth and impurities, which are her countless sons. She is the sum of elements, concepts, and ideologies that, in modern terminology, might be...
July 2011
1 post
James Stirling
June 2011
3 posts
Per Kirkeby
Sisal
Tadelakt
April 2011
2 posts
Transparency
Pompeii
Two archeaological sites, the names of which suggest a few Hejduk projects.
House of the Painters at Work
House of the Chaste Lovers
March 2011
2 posts
February 2011
13 posts
2GB
Paffard Keatinge-Clay at SFAI
Whig Hall
Charles Gwathmey’s (modern?) insertion to the neoclassical debate hall at Princeton.
Burro
Towers
Open House
“Poetry is not a sort of distorted and decorated prose, but rather prose is poetry that has been stripped down and pinned to a Procrustean bed of logic.”
-Gregory Bateson / Coop Himmelb(l)au Open House plan
Theorists of the Trace Part 8/9
Jorinde Voigt / Ludwig Wittgenstein
1. The world is all that is the case.
2. What is the case - a fact - is the existence of states of affairs.
2.01 A state of affairs (a state of things) is a combination of objects (things).
2.013 Each thing is, as it were, in a space of possible states of affairs. This space I can imagine empty, but I cannot imagine the thing without the space.
...
Unsure
“My belief is that the mathematically harmonious shapes, executed precisely, are filled with emotional quality, and they represent the perfect balance between feeling and intellect.”
-László Moholy-Nagy, Kompozicija Z VIII. Quoted by R. Banham here.
Image via (Ordinary Finds)
Self-Titled
Grain
Concrete Example
Asbestos tile pattern stain on diagonal, slight crazing, clear resin filled chip flecks, ground and polished. Purplish hue of unknown chemical origin.
Analytic
Kasimir Malevich, Writing Desk and Room, 1913.
Zaha Hadid, Vitra Firestation design study, 1990.
Image Architecture
Francis Bacon / Hernan Diaz-Alonso
January 2011
4 posts
Parras Dynamo
Hipolito
Color Theory
Theorists of the Trace Part 6 / 7
Free State II (detail), Richard Galpin. 2008
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Berliner-Plaetze, Julie Mehretu, 2006
December 2010
3 posts
Guilt By Association
“The forms of art became the forms of architecture. The pedigreed presumption is that revolution in art connotes revolution in architecture.” EOM, The Construction Manual
The Foundation
The Light
November 2010
1 post
The Float
Aldo Rossi’s Teatro del Mondo
October 2010
1 post
The Hard Core
“Beauty lies in natural, grown things that do not carry any signs or messages.”
-Peter Zumthor on the hard core of beauty, refering in part to Peter Handke.
September 2010
1 post
Glass
James Welling, Glass House Series (6096), 2006 (via)
(6063), 2008
June 2010
1 post
Paradiso
May 2010
2 posts
“If one designs to construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a...”
– Thoreau, Walden
Recognition
“Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit and pick its nose, break wind, and damn the course of its youth groping among obstacles erected, dutifully, by its own hands earlier, along the way of that sublime delusion known as the pursuit of happiness.
Not to be confused with that state of political bigotry, mental obstinacy,...
April 2010
2 posts
Recap
A year ago a friend of mine, through the sheer power of unenthusiastic suggestion, convinced me to write some things here.
The idea was to attempt a certain honesty about a project that is important to me: my own house, my first house. It seemed essential (or at least productive, if that’s essential) to have a space to promote a truthfulness that is hardly possible when writing for an...
Vivarium
Matter Management - SciArc - 2010
March 2010
1 post
“If we find a mound six feet long and three feet wide in the forest, formed into...”
– -Adolf Loos
RIP Raimund Abraham (1933-2010)
February 2010
1 post
Projection
Raimund Abraham
January 2010
2 posts
Theorists of the Trace - Part 5
The trace of the writer is found only in the singularity of his absence; he must assume the role of the deadman in the game of writing.
Cornering
December 2009
3 posts
The Libertine
Rochester. And so you do not draw the general moral of the incident which is?
Downs. Which is?
Rochester. Which is that any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense. Mark it well.
-Earl of Rochester, as portrayed by Johnny Depp
Resultant
Theorists of the Trace - Part 4
Paul Klee
Highways and Biways, 1929
“People used to reproduce things seen on earth - things which had been or would be seen with pleasure. Today the reality of visible objects has been revealed and the belief has been expressed that, in relation to the universe, the visible is only an isolated case and that other truths exist latently and are in the minority.”
Quoted in Klee: A...
November 2009
6 posts
Unquote
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The Ceiling
Reflected plan of the open living room / kitchen during and after removal of two previous drop ceilings. Each hung from the other.