It's hard to tell if this was written exclusively about the 'structural behavior' of a built structure or something more... human.
Couple:
A system of forces composed of two equal forces of opposite direction, offset by a distance. A couple is statically equivalent to a moment whose magnitude equals the magnitude of the force times the offset distance.
I'll botch this, as it was something I heard in a lecture not read, but Dan Hoffman referred to architecture as the intersection between the elliptical orbits of the bright star of science and the dark star of philosophy.
"So what then is architecture? Is it a hard, ‘simple’, ‘natural’ protective shell that engenders the continuation of life? Or is it a soft formlessness forever redesigning an applied shell it doesn’t naturally have?"
--QBVS 1, p. 148.
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with acknowledgement of botchiness...i guess i've been out of school for too long because i have no idea who Dan Hoffman is; but he's only 66.6667% correct - architecture lies at the nexus of art, science, and philosophy. i imagine that none of the three are never completely dark, nor bright, but are always some combination of the two.
was Dan Hoffman the chair or something at cranbrook? I feel like I saw him lecture about 6 years ago while in an all nighter mode/stupor yet, found the his work and that of his students to be truly powerful. This post is not really appropriate for the thread huh? oh well.....
Yes, aeaa, Hoffman was architect-in-residence at Cranbrook. I had a similar in-an-all-nighter-stupor-but-blown-away-by-amazing-images lecture event in school when I saw Will Bruder speak on Scarpa - I still hallucinate those things I was seeing.
Back to the thread, here are two more architecture-related definitions:
An architect is someone who can build a functional firepit while simultaneously discussing the poetics of fire. (from a fellow Cranbrook student)
and
An architect is an artist who wants to make his mother happy. (the brilliant Dave Hickey)
Though not really beautiful, more like painful, that second one has stuck with me. And yes, norm, art does need to be in there somewhere, but I think it lies more in the realm of philosophy.
Architecture is the triumph of Human Imagination over materials, methods,
and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the
geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It
is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon
when we use the word `order.'
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The most beautiful definition I've ever read...
It's hard to tell if this was written exclusively about the 'structural behavior' of a built structure or something more... human.
Couple: A system of forces composed of two equal forces of opposite direction, offset by a distance. A couple is statically equivalent to a moment whose magnitude equals the magnitude of the force times the offset distance.An Incongruity Between What Is Expected And What Actually Happens.
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Nice one, quondam.
I'll botch this, as it was something I heard in a lecture not read, but Dan Hoffman referred to architecture as the intersection between the elliptical orbits of the bright star of science and the dark star of philosophy.
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"So what then is architecture? Is it a hard, ‘simple’, ‘natural’ protective shell that engenders the continuation of life? Or is it a soft formlessness forever redesigning an applied shell it doesn’t naturally have?"
--QBVS 1, p. 148.
liberty bell
with acknowledgement of botchiness...i guess i've been out of school for too long because i have no idea who Dan Hoffman is; but he's only 66.6667% correct - architecture lies at the nexus of art, science, and philosophy. i imagine that none of the three are never completely dark, nor bright, but are always some combination of the two.
oops - none of the three are ever. sorry.
was Dan Hoffman the chair or something at cranbrook? I feel like I saw him lecture about 6 years ago while in an all nighter mode/stupor yet, found the his work and that of his students to be truly powerful. This post is not really appropriate for the thread huh? oh well.....
The library, you know, where the books live.
Willow in Buffy the vampire slayer, season 1, episode 1
I am bus.
Yes, aeaa, Hoffman was architect-in-residence at Cranbrook. I had a similar in-an-all-nighter-stupor-but-blown-away-by-amazing-images lecture event in school when I saw Will Bruder speak on Scarpa - I still hallucinate those things I was seeing.
Back to the thread, here are two more architecture-related definitions:
An architect is someone who can build a functional firepit while simultaneously discussing the poetics of fire. (from a fellow Cranbrook student)
and
An architect is an artist who wants to make his mother happy. (the brilliant Dave Hickey)
Though not really beautiful, more like painful, that second one has stuck with me. And yes, norm, art does need to be in there somewhere, but I think it lies more in the realm of philosophy.
Architecture is the triumph of Human Imagination over materials, methods,
and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the
geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It
is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon
when we use the word `order.'
- FLW
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lamina,
In regards to order; I often wonder what gives humans "more" order. Going to the moon, a television or architecture?
neerajkumar that book sucks! archiwut8 i thought you were yelling at a bot but that archinector appears to have real comments....I am bot, therefore I exist!
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