20030626
me too !
her page
.: Jonas 9:50 PM
I love Patricia Piccinini....
Venice Biennale
.: gisela 9:34 PM
20030617
WORLD TRADE CENTER
Libeskind in the ongoing power struggle
Post
IT'S A MASTERPIECE
Zaha
.: gisela 1:52 PM
Beatriz Colomina and Rem Koolhaas interview Martha Stewart in
Wired
.: gisela 1:11 PM
LOS ANGELES
MAK (Museum for Applied Arts) in Vienna has launched a competition to search for alternatives to an "unimaginative proposal" neighboring LA's SCHINDLER HOUSE. Among the 20 architectural offices participating were Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Coop Himmelblau, Eric Owen Moss, Lebbeus Woods and Decq/Cornette.
A jury including Frank O. Gehry and Carl Pruscha now selected three winning schemes.
The projects can be viewed in the Schindler House in LA from August 6 - 31st in an exhibition titled "A Tribute to Preserving Schindler's Paradise“, or at
BauNetz
.: gisela 1:07 PM
20030615
NYtimes: For the last decade Julie has been part of a little-known segment of homeless youth often called urban nomads. Year in and year out they travel to a few select North American cities, living on little or no money on the fringes of a society they have grown disillusioned with or, like Julie, actively despise. Like birds, they migrate according to the weather, spending the winter in the warmer parts of the South and West - San Francisco, New Orleans and Austin are favorites - before returning north as the weather grows milder. Manhattan is a prime destination, even though the life, never easy, is likely to get harder, given impending budget cuts that would affect the city's social service.
.: Jonas 4:40 PM
20030612
CRIMINAL INTERESTS
WarProfiteers
.: gisela 1:08 PM
20030611
David Claerbout @ Dia
.: sawad 4:48 PM
In the reloaded matrix it was interesting to see how The Architect was portrayed. A movie that is innovative in so many ways went with the most traditional role of an architect one could present. The master, the sole creator, the father, the perfectionist .. inevitably is an old man; complete with a pen in his hand.
"The Architect : The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is as apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being, thus I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying grotesqueries of your nature.." (transrcipt)
.: Jonas 1:54 PM
[...] Contact is crisis. As the anthropologists say, "Every touch is a modified blow."
[...]
When we focus upon Greek attitudes to and treatment of the female, we see anxiety about boundaries from a particular perspective -- that of hygiene, physical and moral.
[...]
Female transgression begins in social fact. Woman is a mobile unit, as a man is not, in a society that practices patrilocal marriage (which Greek society is generally agreed to have done). From birth the male citizen has fixed place in house and city, but the female moves. At marriage a wife is taken not just (and perhaps not at all) into her husband's heart but into his house. This transgression is necessary (to legitimate continuation of the house), dangerous (insofar as the house incorporates a serious and permanent crisis of contact) and creates the context for illicit varieties of female movement, for example, that of the adulteress out of her husband's house, with attendant damage to male property and reputation. The social fact of female mobility presented Greek society with a set of tactical and moral problems that it never quite solved but which it sought to clarify, during the archaic and classical periods, by recourse to pollution beliefs and the code of conduct governing *miasmata* (defilements) in general.
Anne Carson, "Dirt and Desire: Essay On the Phenomenology of Female Pollution in Antiquity," Men In the Off Hours, pp. 130-1.
.: sawad 7:59 AM
20030610
Do you remember Jeff Kipnis’ comment during Bernhard’s final event at Columbia ? Jeff described the moment when he discovered that Alejandro (Zaera-Polo) was working on the same stuff as he was - something about evolution/species in the design process. These were his immediate thoughts ~ :
a) Somebody else is working on it.
b) I am not the first working on it.
c) Ben will publish it first !
.: Jonas 10:37 AM
20030609
"Citing the tough economic climate, the Chrysler Corporation today announced that they are ending their Chrylser Design Awards program, which has honored the best of American design over the past 10 years."
There was enough money to host the TONY's in New York, though....
.: gisela 2:30 PM
20030608
Zaha Hadid's Urban Mothership
.: Jonas 2:57 PM
20030605
As i just read on archlog, the TWA Terminal has finally been added to the list of most-endagered places. It is such a beauty.
"The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, owner of the building, seeks to redevelop the site as part of its airport expansion program. Current plans call for substantial demolition of the terminal's innovative flight satellite concourses and the construction of a hulking U-shaped building around its airside. The Port Authority's plans will permanently remove the historic terminal's gates, and render it useless as an aviation structure. Without a stop on the new light rail system, the terminal may gradually become a White Elephant."
.: Jonas 2:10 PM
20030604
Turns out everybody has a Salam story.
His latest post mentioned an afternoon he spent at the Hamra Hotel pool, reading a borrowed copy of The New Yorker . I laughed out loud. He then mentioned an escapade in which he helped deliver 24 pizzas to American soldiers. I howled. Salam Pax, the most famous and most mysterious blogger in the world, was my interpreter. The New Yorker he had been reading—mine. Poolside at the Hamra—with me. The 24 pizzas—we had taken them to a unit of 82 nd Airborne soldiers I was writing about.
[...]
I don't know what Salam thought about The New Yorker story, but he likes The New Yorker . I happened to have two issues of the magazine, and he was mesmerized by them, especially a story about the selection of Daniel Libeskind's design for the WTC site. Salam is trained as an architect and is a fan of Libeskind's work. He was amazed at the length of the stories. "They go on and on," he remarked. "They start in one place, go somewhere else, then to another place. They are, like, endless."
.: sawad 10:33 PM
GROUND ZERO 'POET' EXPOSED
.: sawad 12:41 PM
20030602
TOTAL SURVEILLANCE
MarkFioreCartoon
.: gisela 5:50 PM
20030601
"But there's a problem with weblogs. They're myopic. They're all about the Web and what's on the Web, but they really aren't about anything else that's happening in the big wide world. The reason for this is simple. The people who publish weblogs are, by and large, deskbound. They sit there all day and surf the Web, looking for interesting things to write about on their weblogs. The rest of the world doesn't show up on their radar."
read this in THE FEATURE (jonas, how do I create a link?) and I think they have a point here. Although everything we write here is about the outside world, our source remains the web. And I don't see 'mobblog' (posting messages from your mobile phone while roaming through the city) or 'audblog' (even better: posting audio messages from your mobile phone while we....do what?) as the thing to do in the near future. at first I thought it's cool. this woman recorded sound from a protest and posted it. Wait until we all have a mobile phone with a camera. will we bombard each other with our day to day experiences out there on the street. In New York we can be pretty sure to meet a freak or experience something weird almost every day. So what's the big deal. Perhaps, deskbound as we are, this way of filtering information worth sharing that has already been virtualized by some other source is not so bad after all.
.: kaja 3:12 PM
"Salam's story: The most gripping account of the Iraq conflict came from a web diarist known as the Baghdad Blogger. But no one knew his identity - or even if he existed. Rory McCarthy finally tracked him down, and found a quietly spoken, 29-year-old architect. [..] In June last year, Salam (this much of his name, at least, is real) was a recently graduated architect, aged 29, living at home with his parents and brother in Baghdad. His best friend was Raed, 25, a Palestinian-Jordanian he had met while studying architecture, who was taking a masters degree in Jordan. Raed was at best an infrequent email correspondent and so Salam started writing up his news from home on a weblog, a site on the internet where he could post his scribblings as often as he liked for his friend to read. He called it: Where is Raed?" (guardian)
.: Jonas 11:42 AM
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