The Wolfe Den stair progresses. The middle partition that ties into the rift cut white oak guardrail is in. And a preview of the Ipe treads. Kilean made it by with me today to check it out and generally reek havoc with everyone…
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more about “untitled”
Some nice progress! Here’s three weeks ago.
a poem by Lebbeus Woods
War and Architecture
Architecture and war are not incompatible.
Architecture is war. War is architecture.
I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority
that resides in fixed and frightened forms.
I am one of millions who do not fit in, who have no home, no family,
no doctrine, no firm place to call my own, no known beginning or end,
no “sacred and primordial site.”
I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories
that would chain me with my own falsness, my own pitiful fears.
I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments,
and forms that appear with infinite strength, then “melt into air.”
I am an architect, a constructor of worlds,
a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody,
a silhouette against the darkening sky.
I cannot know your name. Nor can you know mine.
Tomorrow, we begin together the construction of a city.
WAR AND ARCHITECTURE
RAT I ARHITEKTURA
Lebbeus Woods
pamphlet architecture 15
Incredible! Get it, read it, then read it again!
Is anyone else as excited about this as I am?
Some spanking new sketches by MJ for a remodel of an Arts and Crafs cottage in the University area.
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“There are no twelve-year-old geniuses in architecture,” remarked Le Corbusier.
Architecture is a field for irrepressible optimism and demands a tenacious staying power.
from Mexican Architecture, the work of Abraham Zabludovsky and Teodoro Gonzalez de Leon
by Paul Heyer
in 2003 we were asked to submit ideas for an Art Forum and Community Center in Annaka, Japan… Our design was centered about the Mulberry trees we were gonna plant, hundreds of them.
See if you can spot the kids with balloons and the dog (in the sketches.)
MJ and I have gone into macrobiotics lately, we are also learning Japanese cooking, of course, MJ has always been obsessed with Japan… You should see his Japanese collection of books. It’s just delicate and beautiful.
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This is an experimental short film produced for the 20×2.org interactive show at SXSW. A divertimento on the poetry by Fernando Pessoa. Written, produced, scored, edited, and directed by Viviane Vives for Barcelona Films.
Shot at the Ramp House.
Ok it’s about being invisible, but draw your own damn conclusions!
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