Tag Archives: Architecture

/Cloud/ – Space as Accumulation

Posted on March 9, 2012 by

Frank Gehry House (1978) Santa Monica, CA It’s possible think of the “middle voice” (el coche se vende) as a way of getting beyond Aristotle’s first and final causes, as well as Descartes’ notion of rational engineering. This is a … Continue reading →

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Culture as Continous Problem

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

/Student/: That is quite a house…I understand what middle voice can look like, now. I don’t think I’ll fully understand how this links to Colomina and Woolf, unless middle voice can also be used to destroy the opposition between inner … Continue reading →

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Domestic Fictions – The Triumph of Writing over Drawing in Modern Architecture

Posted on May 27, 2011 by

“The look is directed . . . in such deliberate manner as to suggest the reading of these houses as frames for a view.” – Beatriz Colomina, “Split Wall” “But with all the interrogation of the word feminine, one sometimes … Continue reading →

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Asyntactical Anti-Architecture ~ Building not as Organism but rather Cloud

Posted on April 27, 2011 by

Friedrich Wilhelm founded this museum for the study of antique objects of all kinds and the fine arts “In a confidential memo to Cabinet Adviser von Albrecht, a member of the museum commission, Alexander von Humboldt wrote that the philology … Continue reading →

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