need a list whistle Howard? :)
actually, i am quite taken by Patrick's, Lauf-s,
and others thinking about columns/capitals,
and did not state explicitly enough what is a
rather implicit connection between symbols
of heads-of-state/state-capitals and the body-
politic, that is a core of the architectural order.
looking at the news online about the Israel &
Palestine, the photographs speak most to me,
one was of a series of diggers/back-hoes (not
sure what they are called, excavators maybe)
digging away at a mound of dirt. it is an image
of a war, an with an architectural interface. so
too, in today's local paper is an amazing image
equally architectural, equally war, of a line of
buildings-in-process of the construction of the
new settlements (which you just posted here,
so it must be OK then to do, I am to assume...).
so, half-built housing, no facades, no windows,
the skeletal structures lined up as a dense wall
of construction-- this too is architectural war--
and the rules of cultural engagement, civilian.
i've been taken by the correspondence between
the use of 'talking heads' on television, referring
to news and others on the screen, it is guessed,
as all one usually sees are their faces & masks.
oftentimes, these televisions with talking heads
are put atop unadorned pedestals, as columns
potentially, or a head upon a body, culmination.
i've long been considered making something of
clay or just a mock-up digital image of PDAs, cell-
phones, televisions, radios, and other aspects to
'adorn' or offer ornamentation to a blank capital,
a potential, mostly arbitrary, representation which
may take the place of acanthus leaves, or flowers,
or common celebrated forms of cultural meaning.
i've also hoped someday to take a PDA, make it
out of clay, then break it as if a fossilized artifact
with some wires and circuit board sticking out of
the middle of it, as guts, showing a different view,
speculating archaeologists may value such finds
in the future as definitive of a micro-historical era.
in all this war, which is based in architecture, to
also acknowledge desires for peace in the ways
of architecture seems as fair as any commercial
architecture or pre-valued works readily sent onto
the list by yourself. so i hope the freedom of ideas
will be supported by you, as it was in the past, as
the 'art of architecture' is a wide-open idea, to be
contested, and even lost by those who can only
'win' by disregarding uncomfortable facts-- this is
how the institutions of architecture operate so well.
and, true to form, continue to do so until a change.
that change is now, and i hope you'll be part of it.
On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 08:39 AM, Howard Ray Lawrence wrote:
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actually, i am quite taken by Patrick's, Lauf-s,
and others thinking about columns/capitals,
and did not state explicitly enough what is a
rather implicit connection between symbols
of heads-of-state/state-capitals and the body-
politic, that is a core of the architectural order.
looking at the news online about the Israel &
Palestine, the photographs speak most to me,
one was of a series of diggers/back-hoes (not
sure what they are called, excavators maybe)
digging away at a mound of dirt. it is an image
of a war, an with an architectural interface. so
too, in today's local paper is an amazing image
equally architectural, equally war, of a line of
buildings-in-process of the construction of the
new settlements (which you just posted here,
so it must be OK then to do, I am to assume...).
so, half-built housing, no facades, no windows,
the skeletal structures lined up as a dense wall
of construction-- this too is architectural war--
and the rules of cultural engagement, civilian.
i've been taken by the correspondence between
the use of 'talking heads' on television, referring
to news and others on the screen, it is guessed,
as all one usually sees are their faces & masks.
oftentimes, these televisions with talking heads
are put atop unadorned pedestals, as columns
potentially, or a head upon a body, culmination.
i've long been considered making something of
clay or just a mock-up digital image of PDAs, cell-
phones, televisions, radios, and other aspects to
'adorn' or offer ornamentation to a blank capital,
a potential, mostly arbitrary, representation which
may take the place of acanthus leaves, or flowers,
or common celebrated forms of cultural meaning.
i've also hoped someday to take a PDA, make it
out of clay, then break it as if a fossilized artifact
with some wires and circuit board sticking out of
the middle of it, as guts, showing a different view,
speculating archaeologists may value such finds
in the future as definitive of a micro-historical era.
in all this war, which is based in architecture, to
also acknowledge desires for peace in the ways
of architecture seems as fair as any commercial
architecture or pre-valued works readily sent onto
the list by yourself. so i hope the freedom of ideas
will be supported by you, as it was in the past, as
the 'art of architecture' is a wide-open idea, to be
contested, and even lost by those who can only
'win' by disregarding uncomfortable facts-- this is
how the institutions of architecture operate so well.
and, true to form, continue to do so until a change.
that change is now, and i hope you'll be part of it.
On Tuesday, August 24, 2004, at 08:39 AM, Howard Ray Lawrence wrote:
I try to make specific connections to art and architecture in my<image.tiff>
postings to the list. I would encourage all subscribers to the list
to do the same, since this list is for discussions of art and
architecture, and basic design and applied design.
.H.
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From: "brian carroll" <human@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 3:32 PM
Subject: building peace (vs. architectural war)
> [title: heads-of-state // state-capitals]
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