Background takeaway, studied in Ohio, currently works in LA, California. He writes articles. (x5minutes)
Tabloid Transparency
Or, Looking through Legibility, Abstraction, and the Discipline of Architecture
^Essay title
Disclaimer*
If you disagree with anything, that was the stuff Andrew did. and if you ask Andrew, it was the stuff Todd did.
Architecture can only be political, that is, contribute to the production of another world, bu being relentlessly attentive to its own discipline. -R.E. Somol
Autonomy crowd v Engagement crowds of architecture
Discourse Communities-
Learning how to speak in a particular way, you identify with a community
-Wine enthusiasts to describe subtle variations of wine
-Architects
Colin Rowe -"Transparency" Begins with the definition
Making a judgement on transparency-
Walter Gropius-literal transparency
Le Corbusier-phenomenal transparency
Making a judgement on which
(this is how discourse communities begin, according to Todd)
Profession, Discipline, and Field
Profession concerns itself with the advancement of the field as a reliable, affordable, and sustainable commodity, the discipline with its advancement as an art form.
Clients v Users
even more broader constituencies
Legibility and Abstraction
The people's building by (some architect I didn't catch the name of) (but I have watched a Ted talk on these architects, and their work is inspiring)
Expressionist abstraction like Zaha Hadid
Windows on windows in Chicago
pushing an idea of legibility
Radical Post-Modernism- ..cues, cones, spheres, cylinders, and pyramids -Le Corb
According to FAT described by Todd, Abstraction is another form of legibility- deluding the fight to nothing at all. Dwindling the argument in the field between sustainabile's and the maya's down to meaning.
If legibility can not be avoided, then embrace it.
Light Construction-show?
Sensation- impact of architecture on the body
According to Bacon,
Abstraction>Figureation>"The Figure"
Metaphors are vulnerable to falsification.
Representational of paintings v sexy pictures of fish net stockings.
Tabloid Transparency
Probably Jeff's term.
Comes from tabloids.
Deeply stupid.
"Where Deleuze aimed to bypass both abstraction and diguration via the Figure" -Todd's essay
Picture of Simpson's represented as legos
His idea is to have meaning at first and then "overcome the meaning" by making it dumb.
Binocular entrance to a building, is "dumb".
--End of lecture take away, a lot of pretty pictures, a lot architectural theoretical jargon, and I am definitely leaving the lecture more confused on what architecture is.
Hope you didn't read the hole thing.
Fair assessment.
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