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Michael’S Mouth, Peter Olshavsky
Michael’S Mouth, Peter Olshavsky
Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity
“Michael’s Mouth” examines the virtuoso performance of small mouth sounds (“um,” “ah,” etc.) in MOS’ 2006 video, Alternate Ending 1: The Glimmering Noise. In this performance, “Michael” deftly uses non-words to advance a non-discursive argument about architecture as a form of attention in the post-critical imaginary.
Leon Battista Alberti And The Concept Of Lineament, John Shannon Hendrix
Leon Battista Alberti And The Concept Of Lineament, John Shannon Hendrix
Architecture, Art, and Historic Preservation Faculty Publications
A core idea in the architectural theory of Leon Battista Alberti, as expressed in the De re aedificatoria, is the distinction between “lineament,” the line in the mind of the architect, and “matter,” the material presence of the building. This distinction plays a key role in architectural design throughout the history of Western architecture. As Le Corbusier would say in the twentieth century, “architecture is a product of the mind.” The distinction between mind and matter can be found in Vitruvius, in the distinction between “that which signifies and that which is signified”; at the Accademia di San Luca …
Cities Of Artificial Excavation: The Work Of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988 Introduction, Jean-François Bédard
Cities Of Artificial Excavation: The Work Of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988 Introduction, Jean-François Bédard
School of Architecture - All Scholarship
In this introduction, Bédard traces American architect Peter Eisenman's evolution as an architect and theorist from his work on houses from 1967 until 1980 to a body of work titled, "Cities of Artificial Excavation," which he completed between 1978 and 1988. In "Cities of Artificial Excavation," Eisenman interrogates a series of fictions by using dissimulation to produce an "artificial" architecture.