GRGR: Pynchon's urban architecture

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- Paul Mackin <pmackin at clark.net> wrote:
 
> On Sat, 12 Aug 2000, Mark Wright AIA wrote:
> 
> > Due to
> > architects' envy of the sciences since the enlightenment (see
> > Perez-Gomez "Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science"), every
> > generation a new reductionist metaphor of the city arises.
> Salingaros'
> > hero Chris Alexander is a good example of this tendency.  Fear of
> the
> > "softness" of his chosen art (architecture) drove him to concoct a
> > dissertation published in the mid 60's in book form as "Notes on
> the
> > Synthesis of Form", in which he made a case for a sofisticated
> > procedure which would, through the application of a series of
> rules,
> 
> Ouch, that's hitting kinda close to home. :-) Or am I wrong in
> thinking
> that literary criticism loves the posssibility of being subject to
> scientific theories? Which is fine with me of course.

I am overcoming, with difficulty, the humiliation of having misspelled
"sophisticated" before such a sophisticated assembly...

I'm exceptionally dense today Paul, what are you saying exactly?
Mark

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