“Theory is the culture that is wrapped around you.”
-interview at architecturenow
“Theory is the culture that is wrapped around you.” - architecturenow interview.
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Showing posts with label house. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house. Show all posts
BRIAN MACKAY-LYONS
TWO
Maison de Verre, described at The New York Times as The Best House in Paris
And, 101 Spring Street New York, Donald Judd's Workplace and Home for years, with beautiful accompanying article here at the Design Observer.
More images of both houses after the break.
Il GIRASOLE
Marcel Meili and Christoph Schaub tell the story of 'Il Girasole', the rotating modernist house built into the Po Valley hillside in northern Italy, in this award-winning film. Affectionately termed 'The Sunflower', the house was built in the 1930s by architects Angelo Invernizzi and Ettore Fagiuoli, with the help of their artist, sculptor, designer and architect friends.
Recommended to me by a friend via Yatzer.
Recommended to me by a friend via Yatzer.
YOU DWELLER IN THE DARK CABIN
Thomas Demand, Clearing,
Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion
Of the two dreams, night and day,
What lover, what dreamer, would choose
The one obscured by sleep?
Here is the plantain by your door
And the best cock of red feather
That crew before the clocks.
A feme may come, leaf-green,
Whose coming may give revel
Beyond revelries of sleep,
Yes, and the blackbird spread its tail,
So that the sun may speckle,
While it creaks hail.
You dweller in the dark cabin,
Rise, since rising will not waken,
And hail, cry hail, cry hail.
-Wallace Stevens
SECTION HOUSE
The Cloud Collective's Section House, located on a public green strip in Oisterwijk is just that: a physical, dense section through a typical house. It seems to exist halfway between building site and ruin, halfway between house and playground, halfway between real and unreal. It recalls Whiteread's Ghost - though what is given material presence is not negative space, but the cut of the section. We feel, in it, the resistance of lost matter meeting matter. The drawing is firmly in control of the material - the projected slice is given weight beyond itself. Catherine Ingraham , in an essay titled Losing It in Architecture has called the architectural drawing a lament. Here, indeed, we see the architect's marks stand in for his absent object, calling it into presence. At the same time, the structure breaks no rules, rather, the logic is misapplied, drawn out from itself. The delight is in what the conventional can allow when we engage with it critically. The Section House acts as an operator, what Stan Allen might call a 'transaction' between the abstract realm of geometry and the material stuff of building.
Whiteread, Ghost
INTERROGATIONS
via The Exposure Project
UNTITLED (WHITEREAD)
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| Untitled, 2005. From Whiteread's 'Postcard' series. |
In this 'Postcard' series, Whiteread uses a hole punch to cut out negative spaces in the rooms, capturing the three-dimensional concerns of her sculptural form in a two-dimensional manner. The well-known touristic images are obscured by the cluster of circular abscesses, and they become ambiguous. More of Rachel Whitereads' drawings at the Tate Britain courtesy of the Guardian here, with accompanying article here.
Alongside the postcards are a collection of pseudo-technical drawings, including the revealing 'Study for "House"'. In this work, Whiteread uses an everyday and meaning-laden medium - correction fluid, or 'twink' - to simultaneously create and erase. The house is 'corrected' into a 'pure' whiteness, it becomes absent, yet at the same time, we are more aware of the space the object occupies after the 'intervention'. White is at once pure and ghostly, the house in the images becomes both nothing and, oddly, sky.
Study for "House", 1992
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