Amelia released audio from an interview with architect, preservationist and filmmaker Malachi Connolly, director of "Built on Narrow Land".
News
Orhan Ayyüce takes a weekend drive through a vacant Vernon, in a short film for the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. citizen commented "Vernon is such an atypical case politically, economically, and in terms of governance, as well as architecture, urbanism and environment".
Oliver Wainwright, reviewed the Venice Architecture Biennale directed by Rem Koolhaas, for the Guardian. Reacting to Quondam’s excessive self-referentialism, Fred Scharmen quipped "It's Rita Novel's world, we just post in it".
Buster.net provided A closer look into The BIG U, BIG’s winning proposal for Rebuild By Design.
Firms/Blogs/Work Updates
Over at the ACSA (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) blog, Michael Monti responded with "cautious optimism", to the news that NCARB is hoping to develop a new path for architecture students to be licensed at graduation. Mr. Monti believes "It will take 10 years for this path to come to maturity, and schools and the profession will have to build and sustain it together".
Donna Sink chimed in "I sincerely hope this move results in narrowing the current gap between education and practice..One can also hope that this move will bolster the efforts of those firms who already take internship experience seriously". However Gregory Walker was less sanguine "unless either the curricula itself contains enough experience to become licensed after graduation or there's a non-market driven setting that could accommodate that influx of student labor and match it up, it seems difficult to imagine".
David Holguín recently worked on a Sketch (of) Modelo Bar.
Enterprise Community Partners in Boston MA, is accepting applications for the Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellowship, a prestigious three year opportunity for community-minded designers. Geographically the opportunities are diverse - "Six openings - Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Oakland, Calif., and Slayton, Minn".
Joann Lui, LEED Green Assoc. started her Intern 101 series! back up, reflecting on the challenge of tackling work that is "over your experience level".
School/Blogs
Held in partnership with the Kendall College of Art and Design the upcoming symposium, Michigan Modern: Design that Shaped America will explore Michigan’s contribution to modern design and architecture.
The School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, is seeking a Fabrication Lab Manager. The posting includes this quote; "ensure the esthetic quality of Pearl Hall"...
Discussions
vw@fowlkesstudio.com is looking for suggestions re: a Large Format Printers for a small office. jw468 shared some advice "I can tell you what not to get: don't go with an HP, even if it's initially cheaper". LITS4FormZ though, disagreed "I have a 36" hp t520 and it's been working great over the past year. Prints anything from 36" to 8.5x11".
BulgarBlogger wanted some legal advice, "where there is the death penalty, if you are responsible for a design that collapses and kills people, could you be punished by death"? quizzical clarified "In the circumstances you describe, I doubt the collapse of a building would meet the standards for ‘murder’ -- more likely ‘manslaughter arising from negligence’”... Based on personal experience mightyaa added "No. It isn't premeditated...And I have worked on two construction defect cases involving deaths directly attributable to construction".
Finally, bostoncsl needs help with site planning, specifically a question about sharing an Egress only through easement. gwharton noted "You can generally use an access easement for egress purposes. However, there are a bunch of specific requirements to make it work. Check with your local building department"
gruen wondered "Sounds like you want to create a 4 unit building, then divide it along the property line w a fire wall? And put a common stair in the prop line too?" if so "Why not ask for a variance to join the lots and do a 5 or 6 unit?"
Additionally
Martha Bridegam compiled Discomfort Architecture, a "starting list for sites, books and threads on architecture designed to make public spaces uncomfortable for people with nowhere else to go".
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Quondam, just to be clear I didn't intend my comment as a negative criticism. You are certainly correct that i am not the most active member on site (especial lately). and speaking for myself, Archinect wouldn't be the same without your presence.
Perhaps "excessive...referentialism"? not sure. I would suggest it was intended as an accurate description of events/reality. ie: you did post multiple comments all referencing yourself.
Can't speak for Fred.
Quondam perhaps you overdosed...I would link it but on phone...see your qouting of Elia Zhengelis from log 30 on Koolhaas I think in the olaf blog...its appropriate - you overdosed on a koolhaas post. Overdose oddly enough in this context is less "negative" than excessive even though overdose could kill you.
I was just being critical of the critical of the critical.... The content was noted within the context and as a new iteration of hierarchy of content (content and context) an observation was made by Fred that I am now observing as critique at the next level by merging feedback and content (content and context) which then in the archinect picks curation created a fourth level of critique a meta-feedback-context-content which I summarized in one word - an abstraction of all that was sugfested as - overdose.
isn't quondam by nature self-referential? if you look towards former events, records, recollections, etc. in your timeline, it's always you staring back right?
Curtkram you are correct
The google tells me
Quondam - Latin, at one time, formerly, from quom, cum when; akin to Latin qui who
First Known Use: 1539
Quondam, it was only meant as a friendly joke, I see the critical tone in my comment as well, though, now that it's pointed out. I apologize.
Quondam, that long post above is so full of such goodness. I can't digest it all but enjoyed reading it.
In my world it *is* Rita Novel's world, in many ways. I interpreted Fred's comment as an endearment, not a criticism.
Quondam, very interesting. I'm a little confused to be honest, but the bits and pieces that I do understand make me want to re-read and try to understand the totality of your ideas.
Read your overdose and it appears you are still alive. One thing I wanted to note after reading some Mark Wigley interviews on academia and schools oF Architecture trying to justify themselves to the university by means of philosophy or some other connecting element with other university school like mathematics. .. and considering Eisenman's attempt, not to mention Patrik Schumachers attempt, to make a language/science of architecture be autonomous. ..I think I now fully understand Ichnographia - this example by Piranesi is the best example of an autonomous historical "text" on architecture. It is not a "text" it is a "drawing". As architects that's where our justification can stop - literature has text and science has math and text...your museum is a next step and there is the occasional architect who constructs worlds of architecture virtually, on phone, would otherwise research quickly. ..with that said did you ever spend time on Ctheory.net or .com say 15 years ago? to contribute to your overdose I am pasting something nearly 15 years old and a direct result of ctheory. If we are going to overdose lets overdose!!!!!..............sorry Donna - on phone..........no enter work......'.................................. Symphonatic No. 1 Composed by Metamechanic Allegro It is true that in the universe itself two opposite movements are to be distinguished, as we shall see later on, “descent” and “ascent”.(Bergson) However, there are at least three arrows of time that do distinguish the past from the future. They are the thermodynamic arrow, the direction of time in which disorder increases; the psychological arrow, the direction of time in which we remember the past and not the future; and the cosmological arrow, the direction of time in which the universe expands rather than contracts. (Hawking) The universe would expand to a very large size and eventually it would collapse again into what looks like a singularity in real time.(Hawking) Therefore the flow of time might assume an infinite rapidity, the entire past, present, and future of material objects or of isolated systems might be spread out all at once in space, without there being anything to change either in the formulae of the scientist or even in the language of common sense.(Bergson) All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.(Vonnegut) For the first time, history is going to unfold within a one-time-system: global time. Up to now, history has taken place within local times, local frames, regions and nations. But now, in a certain way, globalization and virtualization are inaugurating a global time that prefigures a new form of tyranny. If history is so rich, it is because it was local, it was thanks to the existence of spatially bounded times which overrode something that up to now occurred only in astronomy: universal time. But in the very near future, our history will happen in universal time, itself the outcome of instantaneity – and there only. (Virillo) Largo Typical Plan – by making no choices – postpones it, keeps it open forever. (Koolhaas) We are so accustomed to viewing all films over and over again, the fictitious ones as well as those pertaining to our lives; we have been so thoroughly contaminated by a retrospective technique that we are quite capable, under the blow of contemporary vertigo, to rethread history as one threads a film wrong side up. (Baudilliard) We must be all the more careful in the face of this possibility, since the drive for simplicity leads us to make our principles as broad as possible. (Bernays) In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.(Hawking). There exists a body of exact mathematical laws, but these cannot be interpreted as expressing simple relationships between objects existing in space and time. The observable predictions of this theory can be approximately described in such terms, but not uniquely – the wave and the corpuscular pictures both possess the same approximate validity. This indeterminateness of the picture of the process is a direct result of the indeterminateness of the concept “observation” – it is not possible to decide, other than arbitrarily, what objects are to be considered as part of the observed system and what as part of the observer’s apparatus. (Heisenberg) A superhuman intellect could calculate, for any moment of time, the position of any point of the system in space. And as there is nothing more in the form of the whole than the arrangement of its parts, the future forms of the system are theoretically visible in its present configuration. (Bergson) Thus the transcendences of past and future appear in the temporal being of human reality. (Satre) Objects contain the possibility of all states of affairs.(Wittgenstein) We know what we are, but know not what we may be.(Shakespeare) At the same time by reducing us to never being anything but what we are, it re-introduces in us the absolute positivity of being-in-itself and thereby re-instates us at the heart of being. (Satre) Objects do not do the job of numbers singly; the whole system performs the job or nothing does. (Benacerraf) The form is the possibility of the structure.(Wittgenstein) An object is thus enveloped by an aura of its own trajectory through time that is immensely different from the sequence of images that would describe its motion through space. (Novak) We must trap reality, we must go faster than reality. The idea too must go faster than its own shadow. But if the idea goes too fast, even its shadow faints: no longer having the faintest idea… (Baudilliard) No art has ever been able to express the power and grandeur of nature by imitation: all true art has made the universal more dominant than it appears to the eye in nature.(Mondrian) The picture, however, cannot represent its form of representation; it shows it forth. (Wittgenstein) Finale Traditionally, war has been fought for territory/economic gain. Information Wars are fought for the acquisition of territory indigenous to the Information Age, i.e. the human mind itself … In particular, it is the faculty of the imagination that is under the direct threat of extinction from the onslaughts of multi-media overload … DANGER – YOUR IMAGINATION MAY NOT BE YOUR OWN … (Issue #6, Nothing is True (Bey)) All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.(Shakespeare) The meaning of Stonehenge in Traflamadorian, when viewed from above, is:”Replacement part being rushed with all possible speed.” ….The Great Wall of China means in Traflamadorian, when viewed from above:”Be patient. We haven’t forgotten about you.” The Golden House of the Roman Emperor Nero meant: “We are doing the best we can.” The meaning of the Moscow Kremlin when it was first walled was: “You will be on your way before you know it.” The meaning of the Palace of theLeague of Nations inGeneva,Switzerland, is: “Pack up your things and be ready to leave on short notice.”(Vonnegut) And I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.(Revelations) Coda …we have to get used to the idea that there is no longer any end, there will no longer be any end and that history itself has become interminable. (Baudilliard) Repeat ad infinitum
ha, thank goodness for the internet, i'd forgotten that post...it appears Sir Arthur fell off the face of the earth and did not return on that one...and " " mentioned shamans! Better check the stars, I feel a cycle coming on....
your overdose piece above was jazz - jazz and overdose
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