I followed Gregory Wharton's suggestion and visited
http://www.fat.co.uk/howto/ .
Upon reflection of this web visit, I was reminded of my first "art
exhibition" entitled PROCESS TAKING ITS OWN SHAPE, which was part of Temple
University's Architecture Program's Alumni Exhibit 1983. I brought this work
together just months after receiving CAD training at INTERGRAPH in
Huntsville, Alabama.
[You see, CAD is really got me interested in doing art--there was no more
need for me to force my hands with the precision of hand drafting, and my
hands and drawing/drafting tools were now free to do with whatever I
wanted--because a machine/computer was well taking care of my professional
drawing skill.]
PROCESS TAKING ITS OWN SHAPE was kind of my answer to "How to become a
famous Architect," and actually impressed a lot of the people that
originally saw it exhibited.
This exhibit has been 'reenacted' several times, the latest manifestation
being a series of webpages within Quondam's 1999 exhibit _schizophrenia +
architectures_, and these pages (and more) are now again available at
www.museumpeace.com/dossiers/ownshape . The current additions are that the
images of 1. Conceptual sketch . . . Beginnings and 2. Parti (so far) are
active links to further aspects of the original exhibit. My particular
favorites are _Spontaneous sector (floor plan)_ at
www.museumpeace.com/01/0039.htm and _The Green Enfilade House_ at
www.museumpeace.com/01/0040.htm .
Given the fact that practically all of my architecture is virtual, it is
comforting to remember that art is my reality.
Stephen Lauf
ps
For those interested in what may well be the turning point in Western
civilization when the Church began wielding more power than the ruling
Imperials, see www.quondam.com/03/0291.htm and the two pages that follow.
These pages describe the double theater of power between Ambrose (Bishop of
Milan) and the Emperor Theodosius during the later years of the fourth
century. Two events are here described, a Christian terrorist attack on a
Synagogue and a brutal massacre of over 7000 innocent people within a
stadium/circus at Thessalonica. There is even a 'calendrical coincidence'
involving the 18th of August. Theodosius was the last emperor to solely rule
over the entire empire, and during his reign Christianity became the
empire's official and only religion. It is within Ambrose's obituary of
Theodosius that the [his]story of Helena's finding of the True Cross is for
the first time spoken of publicly after almost sixty years of imperially
enforced silence.
http://www.fat.co.uk/howto/ .
Upon reflection of this web visit, I was reminded of my first "art
exhibition" entitled PROCESS TAKING ITS OWN SHAPE, which was part of Temple
University's Architecture Program's Alumni Exhibit 1983. I brought this work
together just months after receiving CAD training at INTERGRAPH in
Huntsville, Alabama.
[You see, CAD is really got me interested in doing art--there was no more
need for me to force my hands with the precision of hand drafting, and my
hands and drawing/drafting tools were now free to do with whatever I
wanted--because a machine/computer was well taking care of my professional
drawing skill.]
PROCESS TAKING ITS OWN SHAPE was kind of my answer to "How to become a
famous Architect," and actually impressed a lot of the people that
originally saw it exhibited.
This exhibit has been 'reenacted' several times, the latest manifestation
being a series of webpages within Quondam's 1999 exhibit _schizophrenia +
architectures_, and these pages (and more) are now again available at
www.museumpeace.com/dossiers/ownshape . The current additions are that the
images of 1. Conceptual sketch . . . Beginnings and 2. Parti (so far) are
active links to further aspects of the original exhibit. My particular
favorites are _Spontaneous sector (floor plan)_ at
www.museumpeace.com/01/0039.htm and _The Green Enfilade House_ at
www.museumpeace.com/01/0040.htm .
Given the fact that practically all of my architecture is virtual, it is
comforting to remember that art is my reality.
Stephen Lauf
ps
For those interested in what may well be the turning point in Western
civilization when the Church began wielding more power than the ruling
Imperials, see www.quondam.com/03/0291.htm and the two pages that follow.
These pages describe the double theater of power between Ambrose (Bishop of
Milan) and the Emperor Theodosius during the later years of the fourth
century. Two events are here described, a Christian terrorist attack on a
Synagogue and a brutal massacre of over 7000 innocent people within a
stadium/circus at Thessalonica. There is even a 'calendrical coincidence'
involving the 18th of August. Theodosius was the last emperor to solely rule
over the entire empire, and during his reign Christianity became the
empire's official and only religion. It is within Ambrose's obituary of
Theodosius that the [his]story of Helena's finding of the True Cross is for
the first time spoken of publicly after almost sixty years of imperially
enforced silence.