Substantive posts will be ready for your viewing first thing in the morning. I've been away since Andrew's accusatory post at 2 pm on friday and only have time to make considerable progress when i return to the city tonight. I've been working when i can at home, but have nothing that is ready to post yet, it will be ready by the morning.
Gettysburg and DC are my only sites for consideration now. Gettysburg will be an experiential antimonument, DC will be a political antimonument on a very large scale. It may be a monumental building, not sure. When i say antimonument, i mean something significantly different in terms of experience and aesthetics amidst a context of classical monument which DC and Gettysburg have in spades.
My definition of sustainability is a way of living that allows us to benefit the landbase while maintaining or improving our current standard of living and facilitating this for future generations. My monument is most likely going to be tackling this by being a political impetus or statement in this direction, not simply a LEED building.
My case studies haven't changed. Boullee, Foster and Eisenman in Berlin, I've looked at Loos, among others. Much can be learned from traditional monument as well, i visited the Pennsylvania monument at Gettysburg this weekend. Its typical classical monument that I will be avoiding but need to understand. Please direct me if you can think of any new leads.
That is all for now, there will be plenty more in the morning, and i apologize if that is too late for your convenience, tonight is the only convenient time i have to do a considerable amount of work worth discussing. As for Andrew, don't imply that we don't care about our thesis', we were all offended by this. If you think we're lazy, take a look at our studio projects. Thesis advising is a very important thing for all of us, but when there are pressing deadlines for classes worth far more credits looming, excuse us for losing site of our blog postings for a few days. Studio has been extended another week, and although it is ultimately less important than thesis, it is there nonetheless. We all will obviously have an intensified focus when this is over.
1 comment:
Paul-
Speaking for all the advising team, its unfortunate to have studio extended another week, eating into the time we all expected to be devoted to an intense push on the thesis. Not your fault. But do understand that we are all trying to do our jobs responsibly and be as supportive as we possibly can. But we need the raw materials.
Tomorrow is going to be tough for us to digest anything you post. We all have either architectural jobs or a full day of teaching. There just isn't that amount of free time available prior to the meeting. jp
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