2026.01.13
Change of Venue 011
2025.01.13
  
451 Rhawn Gallery
2024.01.13
20:24
2023.01.13
From The Discovery of Piranesi's Final Project
13 January 2023 Friday
unedited:
Introduction of a whole other cache of 'journals' written at quondam Ury, scribed by a thoroughly modern schizophrenic--a new character of the story? Maybe.
Continue to do new cad drawings, I guess mostly to do with late antiquity and ancient circuses.
Comment on Miers' astute writing, how he's very conscientious of carefully relating his impressions; a fine picture of his mind.
Piranesi's final project began with Piranesi making a discovery--the real workings in plan of the ancient circuses of Rome. Ancient Circuses 2023 commences at the beginning/end joint.
2011.01.13
"On Criticism" an aggregate thread
...as I already mentioned, the "fruit of this thought" is (hopefully and for me at least) an illumination of the how the creative mind operates.
I'd say an unqualified interpretation is one that isn't based on "research, investigation, thorough observation and even some analysis of the material at hand."
I don't have a PhD, but I do have an architectural license, although I haven't 'practiced' architecture in more than a generation. It was an extremely early mastering of 2D and 3D CAD (1983) that took my career on a very unorthodox trajectory, indeed to the point where I ultimately came to design and direct the first virtual museum of architecture online (1996). Quondam happened because I accrued a sizable collection of CAD models of architectural designs that were never built. I built the CAD models to essentially learn and 'experience' buildings that didn't exist otherwise. I still take Quondam seriously, and I utilize it as a creative, investigatory and critical facility.
Regarding 'illuminating how the creative mind operates' see Quondam's three latest pages:
Architectural Visions of Early Fancy and Dreams in the Evening of Life
Roma Interrotta: Sector IV / Urban Components
International Planning Competition for Berlin
These pages are not so much critical but more curatorial. The overall implication, however, is that Stirling's creative working for his Roma Interrotta design involved a process of seeking precedents and then finding inspiration.
minimalism, dead at 38
maximum partisan rhetoric
minimal tolerance
2005.01.13
050113b.db Ignudi pediment for the Philadelphia Museum of Art
1992.01.13
920113n1.db timepiece studio
1991.01.13 - 1991.08.15
The Size of the Horse's Balls
1967.01.13
1967. Friday, New York City
"Your sad note about the welcome which Paris is reserving for me reminds me of the tenor or the coloratura who is to sing for the first time at the opera of Toulouse or Rouen," says Marcel and, playing with the name of the famous Russian bass, asks Robert Lebel: "Should I be scared or: (Où il y a) cha(t) (i)l y a pine…
"I can't lay my hands on Mary Sisler," he continues, "she has disappeared [22.12.1966]. On the Phila[delphis] side, Dr Turner is late in replying definitely."
Ephemerides
1954.01.13
1954. Wednesday, New York City
"I will of course go to Philadelphia when you ask me and follow your instructions in my interview with Fiske [Kimball]," Marcel assures Walter Arensberg, who is dismayed by the proposal of having a "general opening of a Modern Museum" at the same time as their collection [3.12.1953] when an opening in March had been suggested [29.10.1952], before the death of Louise.
Ephemerides
1953.01.13
1953. Tuesday, New York City
Marcel informs Louise and Walter Arensberg that he has finished retouching Adam and Eve [20.10.1952] and that Budworth is shipping the painting immediately to Philadelphia. Describing the progress being made with the building work at Philadelphia [31.12.1952] which he finds is "very well done", Marcel comments that "the ensemble gives a feeling of an architectural unit".
Ephemerides
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