Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Otterlo Circle by Aldo van Eyck
At the last CIAM congress (1959) Eyck presented his ‘Otterlo Circles’, a diagram visualizing his syncretic approach to design, bringing together the classical, modern and vernacular traditions in architecture.
Play Brubeck by Peter Smithson
The sketch 'Play Brubeck' by Peter Smithson. It was published in Team 10 Primer with the following caption:"Ideogram of net of human relations. P.D.S.
A constellation with different values of different parts in an immensely complicated web crossing and recrossing. Brubeck! a pattern can emerge."
A constellation with different values of different parts in an immensely complicated web crossing and recrossing. Brubeck! a pattern can emerge."
http://www.team10online.org/
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Plans by Aldo van Eyck
a plan/model for an exhibition pavilion in Arnhem's Sonsbeek Park
Consisting of six parallel walls made of cement blocks set 2 and a half metres apart and measuring 4 metres high, the pavilion is covered with a transparent surface.
"A building is a city, a city a building", Aldo van Eyck used to say. And in fact his pavilion reproduces and contains the concept of the city: the parallel walls form five 'streets' which are interrupted here and there or curve to form a system of 'city squares'. In this environment, linear on the outside but filled with motion on the inside, the sculptures become the 'inhabitants' of an imaginary city.
Paradoxes of abstraction
"Our central thesis may be summed up as a statement of the necessity of the paradoxes of abstraction. ... Rather, we believe that the paradoxes of abstraction must make their appearance in all communication more complex than that of mood-signals, and that without these paradoxes the evolution of communication would be at an end. Life would then be endless interchange of stylized messages, a game with rigid rules, unrelieved by change or humor."
(Gregory Bateson p .193; 1972)
How meanings can be produced, shared, and exchanged?
(First image from www.sayho.org) The phrase sprayed-written, it reads "we are happy". it is part of all kind of protest-notes posted around the Korea Art School. This one appropriated the work 'We Are Happy' by the late Korean artist Yiso Bac. The original work was produced in a huge advertisement board painted in the pastel orange color (the second image). The protest is against the current neo-liberal government's "non-ideological but just pragmatical" policy and its decision to remove the program of theory and inter-discipliniary study in the curriculum of the school.
Sign as a Signal
"If we speculate about he evolution of communication, it is evident that a very important stage in this evolution occurs when the organism gradually ceases to respond quite "automatically" to the mood-signs of another and becomes able to recognize the sign as a signal: that is, to recognize that the other individual's and its own signals are only signals, which can be trusted, distrusted, falsified, denied, amplified , corrected, and so forth.
Clearly this realization that signals are signals is by no means complete even among the human species. we all too often respond automatically to newspaper headlines as though this stimuli were..." (Gregory Bateson; 1972)
"Signals Are Signals"
A complex world 1
"the dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and acceptance of the inevitability of change" (B.Brecht: 1987)
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
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