Gregory Kepes declares in his notes leading up to the publication of The New Landscape in Arts and Science “[e]very feature of the man created
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Souls in the New Machine – Week 3 Response
Above: Richard Rogers – model2 (90682) – Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Paxton’s ideals find representation through appropriation on Richard Rogers
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Cinema, Architecture and Collectivity – Ina Blom @ Stony Brook Manhattan, 2/10
Event Description: Ina Blom, Oslo universitet “Cinema, Architecture, and Collectivity” In this talk, professor Ina Blom will discuss the ramifications of a spectacular artistic project
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Workspace in the Air
The evolution of workspace in the information technology industry in recent years, I believe, has been the result of transformation and decline of the material
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The Architecture of Discourse @ Van Alen Institute – 2/3 @ 7pm
The architecture of discourse Publication and publicity in architecture Van Alen Institute 30 W 22nd Street 2/3 @ 7pm Books and texts are forums for
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The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Thanks for this new Category Shannon! I want to quickly recommend the documentary “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth” to the class. I watched it on Tuesday and
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Agenda Setting
Architecture as a medium of communication is the central notion present throughout each reading. Umberto Eco makes the distinction between the primary function (architecture as
Read moreTania Zarak – Week 2
But to gain insight from the commonplace is nothing new: Fine art often follows folk art. (Venturi, Brown and Izenour, p. 3) These first readings
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Umberto Eco’s “Function and Sign” provides a useful way for regarding what I take to be a central conflict for architects, but also for most
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Speed, Potency, and Fictions. – Week 2 Response
Although the model presented in “Learning from Las Vegas” still holds true as a tool of urban analysis it is of dire importance to
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