2025.11.20
@451.rhawn.gallery . . . slightly used, "Good as gold." . . . said so on the box
fate, not fake less
liked by @jerrysaltz, even . . . I love you too, Jerry . . . "It's true."
2024.11.20
 
451 Rhawn Gallery
2024.11.20
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
20 November 2022 Sunday
Who knew today would be the day I find out there are at least four spies/secret agents, of one sort or another, in this story? Very Ian Fleming. And don't forget the extremely short-lived marriage of Miers Fisher Jr. and Hélène Gregoroffsky. Very from Russia with love, or, dare we say, "I hope they are of wax."
And, last but not least, two differing dates for the death of Francesco: the online Francesco biography has 27 January 1810, whereas the Holden's "The eclipsed son" has 10 January, referencing Lumetti. I'm not sure exactly where the error (or errors) lie, but 10 January 1953 is for sure my brother's birthday, and 10 January 2013 is likewise for sure my godmother's deathday.
Yet, again, calendrical coincidence introduces the uncanny element.
2021.11.20
20211120_134039.jpg
2016.11.20
20 November
early Picasso... ...late Hejduk
     
2009.11.20
The current state of Architecture Theory
similarly...
Quaestio Abstrusa Background No. 191 28 April 2001 manipulated digital image file
OMA/Rem Koolhaas Quartier des Halles 2003 2004
2009.11.20
The Great Books (of Architecture)
The Decline of the Whiskey Empire
Eutropian Theories
Voodoo Valley, 19120
buildings that move(d)
Apostate Architecture
Kissing That Reality Good-bye
The Last Great Pagan Architecture of Rome
Uninhibited Habitations
Architecture of the Divided States of America
Appositional Architecture
Rita Novel This Sontag
2000.11.20
Signing of Buildings
I was very busy last week designing my tombstone, and, lucky for me, without this 'signing of buildings' thread here at design-l I would never have thought of applying my signature to the inscription. Now I'm sure to rest more peacefully because everyone will know I designed my own marker.
Stephen Lauf
1956 - ____
He didn't know a thing
but
They said he had a nice signature style
signature ____________________
9 November 1778
Yesterday morning I was looking through the recent Taschen (www.taschen.com) publication of Piranesi's complete etchings, and therein I noticed that Piranesi died on 9 November 1778. With respect to my last post here, I'm now at least pleased that information seems to be 'participating' with my obscure architectural/theoretical researches/entertainments.
It was through my research of St. Agnes (on April 1, 1999 - Holy Thursday) in relation to my ongoing research of Piranesi's Ichnographia Campus Martius that I first found out about St. Helena. (I wrote about how all this relates within Piranesi's large plan of the Campo Marzio in a paper I delivered in Brussels a year ago next Saturday.)
Anyway, since what's occupying most of the writers here at architecthetics is what guiding structure there might for architectural aesthetics today, I suggest looking at various episodes that happened exactly here at architecthetics throughout 1999--at the base of a lot of it is the notion of what is trustworthy and what is not trustworthy. Here are some examples, starting with Marcus' post of whether a sculpture can be architecture; my mistrust of Paul's view of Frank Lloyd Wright; Hugh's mistrust of Duchamp's urinal (as faux ready-made); the (dubious?) nature of architectural photography; Alex's mistrust of "hero" historicism.
I like it most when I read people's true feelings versus projection of feelings that are 'supposed' to be had.
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