Re: [design] not-GZ

Make that Philadelphia, the premier US center of
reenactionary architecturism.

Let's hope that someone important enough realizes that the
present Paul Cret designed gallery building of the Barnes
Foundation should still be used as a (new?) art gallery once
the art collection moves the downtown Philadelphia. Plus, to
reenact the Cret interior downtown would just be stupid. St.
Catherine de Ricci, Louis I Kahn and Albert C. Barnes made
all this clear in their paper "The Bilocating Barnes
Foundation."

EXTREME MAKEOVER: MUSEUMPEACE EDITION
House in Olney with rare art collection goes for several
million.
[Thank God my father left so many tools behind. They look
great now among the paintings and collages.]

SELF-PUBLISHER'S WEAKLY
forthcoming:

A QUONDAM BANQUET OF VIRTUAL SACHLICHKEIT: PART I
"A Preprandial Aperitif"
"Cucumber Slices, Caviar and 'Sociables' Crackers"
"Spinach and Mushroom Salad"

A QUONDAM BANQUET OF VIRTUAL SACHLICHKEIT: PART II
"A Glass of Blue Nun Wine"
"Coquilles St. Jacques"

A QUONDAM BANQUET OF VIRTUAL SACHLICHKEIT: PART III
"Pears Helene"
"Dried Fruit and Nuts"
maybe "A Glass of Port"

Let the marketing begin!

Look, Pope Benedict XIV in the design-l archive--
http://mail.architexturez.net/+/Design-L.V1/archive/msg12762
.shtml
quaestio absrusa is the Latin for puzzle

To the rescue:
Pierre Tarisel
Master-mason to the king, b. about 1442; d. in August, 1510.
(In 1555 the title of architect was used at Amiens for the
first time, but it was not until 1609 that a master-mason of
the town called himself an architect). We have no details
concerning his birthplace, save that he belonged to no
family of masons known at Amiens. It is certain that he was
the renowned master-mason at Amiens at the time in which he
lived. He was already famous in 1475, when he was summoned
to inspect the cathedral of Noyon, which threatened to
become ruinous in many places. Although he was not then
entitled master-mason of the city, he was so in fact, as
nothing of importance was done without him. In 1477 he was
at Arras, at work for the King of France. In 1500 the plan
of Martin Cambiche for the restoration and decoration of the
cathedral of Beauvais was submitted to him. On 4 Nov., 1483,
at the death of Guillaume Postel, Pierre Tarisel was
appointed master-mason of the city of Amiens. His
predecessors had been paid at the rate of 4s. per day;
according to the accounts which have been preserved, Tarisel
received 5s. The rate was again reduced to 4s. for his
successor, which shows with what esteem his talent was
regarded.

There is no document to show in what year he became
master-mason of the cathedral; but it seems certain beyond
doubt that he fulfilled these duties in 1482-83. On 7 March,
1497, Tarisel visited all the cloistered houses subject to
the cathedral chapter. Shortly afterwards he undertook the
task of restoring the cathedral. The second pillar of the
choir, on the left, threatened to fall, but under Tarisel's
direction it was restored in 1497. The projecting arch and
the arches near it were restored, and the outer wall was
propped by an additional flying buttress. In 1503 the same
was done for the remaining pillars. Between 1497 and 1503
the pillars of the transept "buckled", owing to the weight
of the rear side arches, and cracks formed. The remedy was
found in bands of Spanish iron, reaching from the transept
to the ends of the choir, the nave, and the cross bars. The
great iron chainwork upholding the four large pillars of the
transept running the length of the triforium in four
directions still exists, and is justly famous. All this was
the work of Tarisel, by whom the cathedral of Amiens was
saved from ruin in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
and which is a sufficient claim to renown.

Remember (walkin' in the sand)
27 May 1875
feast of Corpus Christi and Otto Prince of Bavaria's public
confession
27 May 1986
murder of Isma'il and Lois al-Faruqi (Lois had a high
pitched voice, as do her daughters)

30 May 1640
death of Peter Paul Rubens

31 May 1935
birth of Frei Otto
31 May 1946
death of Eva Stotesbury
31 May 1951
death of Cardinal Dennis Dougherty

Every time I see GZ I think of Gigantes and Zenghelis.
http://mail.architexturez.net/+/Design-L.V1/archive/msg14155
.shtml
http://mail.architexturez.net/+/Design-L.V1/archive/msg14157
.shtml
http://mail.architexturez.net/+/Design-L.V1/archive/msg14158
.shtml
http://mail.architexturez.net/+/Design-L.V1/archive/msg14159
.shtml

When are people gonna start realizing that what's new really
only gets interesting once it's old?
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