GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb

[jbor]

> conscious incorporation of billboard design features: 
> "applied" to a simple structure and "flat," possibly scaled viewed from your
> car on the highway.

Yes, I can see what you mean in that design with an enormous clock on it for
the Staten Island Ferry Terminal which won a prize and then the local
authorities knocked it on the head at the venturi website mark pointed to.

> The "honesty" of
> expressing modern materials and construction methods (as opposed to
> paper-mache eclecticism)

The papier-mache and the eclecticism don't necessarily have to go together,
do they? (Although, again, I know the sorts of pastiche you are talking
about.) Isn't cost a factor?

>  _The Architecture of the Jumping Universe_ presents the ideas
> behind complexity science and chaos theories and shows many examples of
> architecture based on this new language from the work of leading architects
> - Peter Eisenman, Frank O Gehry, Renzo Piano, Charles Correa and Itsuko
> Hasegawa - along with ecological and organic designs. Charles Jencks' own
> recent work is used to illustrate concepts in physics, and an architecture
> based on waves and twists. This clear and concise polemic both advocates and
> criticizes as it seeks to define a new direction for the contemporary arts.

Sounds a little like Gaudi, too.

best

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>From: "David Morris" <fqmorris at hotmail.com>
>To: jbor at bigpond.com, mwaia at yahoo.com
>Subject: Re: GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb
>Date: Tue, Jul 4, 2000, 2:20 AM
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