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From: Stephen Perrella <sp43@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 01:37:05 -0400
>SGP
>MSAAD Columbia GSAP:
>In regards to this designing...a question.
>>How do you do this graphically when this list is all text? Is it a post
>up situation on the web akin to the pin-up at school? Sounds interesting.
>I spent this summer on an SGI considering the dispersal of an
>architectural work. Posting stills is somewhat antithetical to the
>capacity to concieve of virtual space. In terms of that what do you,
>Stephen Perrela think of Jacques Herzog's response to your question. What is
>virtual for him?
spN: Herzog is interested in the radical surface but maintains a rather
conservative Heideggerian notion of dwelling as regards the program. For
me this retards new radical ideas about the surface. I really like Jacques,
we have enjoyed debates elsewhere and he is surely doing interesting work,
but his categories are buried deep in his architecture where he will not
yield on his nostalgia for place. He hasn't a clue about the virtual
because he believes in maintaining embodied being as an imutable fact. He
lets technology play on his surfaces, but not beyond that. This sets up
the usual dichotomies between inside and outside that Taylor had scolded
Riley about in his deconstruction of the catalogue text. What's further,
my question regarding Modernism still stands. No matter how broad one
considers the tradition of "Modernism," NO WHERE IN ITS HISTORY IS THE
VULGAR SIGN EVER ALLOWED TO DISPLACE THE HEIRARCHY OF FORM OVER IMAGE SUCH
THAT IMAGE MAY DISPLACE THIS BINARY ORDER. Ockman is wrong, as I informed
her later, to say that Venturi dealt with this issue adequately, he did
not, he only brought up the issue AS YET ANOTHER MODERNIST.
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>Anyway, how does one proceed?
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asci art. there is a small utility on the web that converts images to asci
art. It isn't great but then we can also post an image on the web but
making a folder in anyone's email account and explaining what is going on
in your email notes. There was a fellow on this list a while back who did
rather good diagrams for this list. Brian inspired me to suggest this.
Stephen Perrella
Columbia University