Wednesday 7 March 2012

Reading Notes Week 01

PARIS/LA VILLETTE
        an urban park

  • A place, that is a space occupied by a body 
  • SPACE EVENT and MOVEMENT
  • Architecture as a form of knowledge, rather that a knowledge of form 
  • JOYCES GARDEN + THE SCREENPLAYS + THE MANHATTAN TRANSCRIPTS
  • In a park the city SHOULD not exist
  • Readability, rigour and simplicity of expression
  • Buildings occupy space, generate movement and amplify action!
  • The folies are ACTIVATED by the rhythm of programmed functions
  • Folies - as activated space, rather than as sculptural objects
  •        - symbolically exceed their respective functions as usable space, signage or visual markers
  • Intense areas of activity INTERRUPTING ZONES OF SILENCE 
  • Folies are MULTI-FUNCTIONAL, NON-FUNCTIONAL or designed to 'COLLIDE' with or 'RESPOND' to other facilities or aspects of the space
  • PLAYFUL
  • DISCONTINUOUS + DISASSOCIATED + DISLOCATED + DISMANTLED + DISJOINTED + DEREGULATED + DECONSTRUCTED = negative grammar

Use the Folie as a model for the way in why I view the state of ARCHITECTURE at the time!

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