2026.03.03
eight boxes out of storage
 
It is within these eight boxes that the channeling of MD through O/G, via the fourth dimension, is to be found.
Not till this morning, when I read page 71 of Lebel's Marcel Duchamp, did I know that, according to Jean Reboul, "...there is no doubt of Duchamp's schizophrenia...". Ultimately, I had to laugh.
2019.03.03
Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 16
2015.03.03
...virtually nauseating until...
...I saw how most (not all) of the posts reflect personal comfort zones vs. personal discomfort zones. And then it became virtually nauseating again when individuals try to project their comfort zones as being somehow axiomatic. And then it got interesting again seeing how the implicit discomfort zones harbor the most inspiration.
Perhaps the Duchamp Inn (2017)...
...will begin to be known as the Discomfort Inn.
Sign on the door reads, "Architects Pay Extra."
Yet Duchamp Inn is fully intended as architecture. Just like the intention here...
...is architecture.
Looks like my next project is to design a Comfort Zone Inn. Here's the program:
The Comfort Zone Inn is a behavioral state within which a person operates in an anxiety-neutral condition, using a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk. A person's personality can be described by his or her comfort zones within a Comfort Zone Inn. A Comfort Zone Inn is a type of mental conditioning that causes a person to create and operate mental boundaries. Such boundaries create an unfounded sense of security. Like inertia, a person who has established a comfort zone in a particular axis of his or her life, will tend to stay within that Comfort Zone Inn without stepping outside of it. To step outside their Comfort Zone Inn, a person must experiment with new and different behaviors, and then experience the new and different responses that occur within their environment.
2006.03.03
I want to write about architecture....How?
Ah, the design of a banquet...
A Preprandial Aperitif
Cucumber Slices, Caviar and 'Sociables' Crackers
Spinach and Mushroom Salad
A Glass of Blue Nun Wine
Sketches cum Napkins
A Trip to the Rest Room
Coquille St. Jacques
Pears Helene
The Speeches
Dried Fruit and Nuts
Australian Port and a Cigarette
The Ride Home
Plop Plop Fizz Fizz
I wonder how many others have figured out that the title of QBVS was initially inspired as antidote to Tafuri's "we end up with a kind of typological negation, an "architectural banquet of nausea," a semantic void created by an excess of visual noise."
Has anyone read Platform?
I'm just over half done reading Platform, and so far I'm enjoying it a bit more than The Elementary Particles.
I like how the real estate cliché "location, location, location" is expanded in the travel industry to "packaging, packaging, packaging."
Maybe that's the same metaphor/cliché for "star" architecture these days.
"In the future, everything will be an advertisement." --Rita Novel
"So what then is architecture? Is it a hard, 'simple', 'natural' protective shell that engenders the continuation of life? Or is it a soft formlessness forever redesigning an applied shell it doesn't naturally have."
--QBVS1, p. 148.
God's will as urban planning?
Regarding "the continuing discrimination they have against women," you might be interested in Church Fathers, Independent Virgins by Joyce E. Salisbury, which shows how and when a lot of the discrimination started. Ironically, in its early centuries, Christianity very much empowered women; it may well have been one of the first human "institutions" where women had a chance to make a choice about their lives. Granted, their choice was to remain virgins, as opposed to being told who they had to marry, but a choice women never even had before, nonetheless. Plus, as usual I suppose, the more wealth a Christian woman had, the more choices she could make for herself. This female freedom even got the pagan Romans upset, and thus even fueled the Great Persecution of the early 4th century.
In Church Fathers, Independent Virgins we see the lives and choices of some notable Christian women, and we see how some notable Church fathers, in their sermons, letters and writings, very much did not like the independence of these women, and thus laid out a whole new restrictive life for Christian woman.
Personally, I see the women as having made the far better choices. Melania the Younger and her grandmother Melania the Older are two of my favorites, besides Helena and Eutropia, of course.
2004.03.03
Re: can I get some feedback?
Do you think it too much in poor taste to have Napoleon married to James A. Williams in the forthcoming Un-Schloss Schizophrenia: Afterlife Address of Choice?
The party to officially announce the engagement of Cardinal Dougherty and Eva Stotesbury (his first, her fourth) is slated for 20 March 2004. unearthly delights galore.
future of architecture
If you're an architect in 2104, and you're already over ten years old, and at this point you're still not famous, do yourself and the rest of the world a favor and stop designing inferior crap that then only makes the world more inferior.
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