Re: Pre-Fab Topologies/Light Construction

Stephen,
Thanks for your note---definitely a different image of PJ than we are taught:
you know, he's a fascist, he changes with the wind, no conviction, etc.

Do you see him as riding the coatails of Eisenman and the others, or is he
really advancing the discourse by going out and experimenting by building?

I've always had a level of respect for the guy, if for no other reason than
it doesn't seem tobother him that he is  so disliked. He's comfortable in what
he does, though I don't think I could ever let him off the hook for some of
 those gawdawful corporate monstrosities.

I once made a cartoon for our AIAS newsletter, inspired by the Johnson/Burgee
breakup. Phil, smiling and bespeckeled as ever (an image actually lifted from
a J/B monograph), holding a sign saying "Will design corporate monuments for
food." Please, no flamage. I know it's insensitive. That was the point at the
time!

But since then, I've mellowed considerably.

Anyway, this idea of a topological architecture that attempts to dissolve
barriers through a new definition of "container" "surface" or "shell" is
very interesting to me; it seems, at the face, like the logical extension of
the Organics' connection to Nature, including Wright's outdoors/indoors
expressed relationships (though acting only metaphorically through formal
devices).

Don't get me wrong, though. Metaphor is incredibly powerfull it makes very
strong links. So, Stephen, does Topological Architecture/Hypersurface go
beyond metaphor itself? Is the next step no shelter (therefore no division,
absolute connection) at all?

We are the Light at that point?

Sehr interesant, mein freund!

Mark