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13 Jul 09

Inside the Exteriors of the Architect Toyo Ito - NYTimes.com

Profile of architect Toyo Ito, who tries, in his work, to capture qualities that (it seems to me) relate to embodiment (“I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies" - Ito). Ouroussoff describes the following aspects, really resonant:
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His career can be read as a lifelong quest to find the precise balance between seemingly opposing values — individual and community, machine and nature, male and female, utopian fantasies and hard realities.

His ability to find such balances consistently has made him one of our great urban poets, someone who has been able to crystallize, through architecture, the tensions that lie buried in the heart of contemporary society. It makes his work especially resonant today, when much of the world is drawn to one form of extremism or another.
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29 Aug 08

"Image Disembodiment?", by Bernard Languillier

Found via ...? Kazys Varnelis?, Geoff at BLDGBLOG? (can't place it, but at some smart blog I read), an essay by Bernard Languillier about how the digital process is changing our relationship with printed images. It's a to-read-later piece for me right now - haven't had time to read it thoughtfully yet, but it promises some compelling insights (something a bit better than Emily Gould's recent piece in MIT's Technology Review, "It's not a revolution if nobody loses," which ostensibly bases itself on Walter Benjamin's pivotal essay, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction").

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many of us still feel the need
to somehow return our images to the physical world they originated from
by printing them
the death of Paper.
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- Photographers will be able to create
  their images in the very environment in which their customers will in the
  end view the photograph. Standards will be defined that specify how a virtual
  fine print should be created for ultimate viewing I various possible customers
  configurations.
  - - intriguing (scary?) idea: that photographers / artists / producers would in future create work with consumer totally in mind -- puts a whole new (digital) spin on patronage. In Renaissance, patrons demanded artworks suited to specific settings/ purposes, but not perhaps as micro-managed as this...? - on 2008-09-15
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- Beyond technology though, this evolution
  will only be possible because of a much deeper change in the way people
  relate with time, stability and dependence
- I see a clear trend in which people have been taught to accept
  various aspects of their lives to be less permanent than they were in the
  past. This will reduce the need for images that have to be here to stay,
  in other words reduce the need for archival quality in photograph embodiments.
- The paradigm of property
  started to vanish with software licenses in which owners became life long
  borrowers. The concept evolved with the notion of software as a service
  where the usage of software itself becomes the good being owned.
- Another key enabler will be changes in the
  way people deal with the concept of property.
- Property becomes an instantaneous item that vanishes as time
  passes by
- I believe that a virtual fine art market
  would further accelerate and multiply creative opportunities by letting
  remote players unleash forms of artistic collaboration we are only starting
  to imagine. It does for sure extend far beyond photography.
- This along with the need to deal with more
  IT aspects as part of the fine art selling process will result in new business
  opportunities for federated online art dealership.
- This could threaten
  the survival of smaller producers. Will a few get visibility and survive
  while others cannot afford to invest in the tools and define a distribution
  network? The way shareware software is sold today provides interesting
  hints regarding suitable go to market approaches in such a context.

11 Feb 08

» We will not save the environment until… • Spacing Toronto • understanding the urban landscape

- transcript of a talk by Pier Giorgio DiCicco; emphasis on the bodily; added two rather long comments.

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After the many seductions, logical and visionary, have been played—I shall make a plea for the salvific aspect of the act of walking. Yes, salvific. Not just to save the environment, but to save ourselves, and not just by regarding the environment. We will not save the environment until we have found a reason for living together. Until we discover civic care in each other, until we restore the city to its definition as a place of unexpected intimacies, not just as a place of amenities, convenience, business, and entertainment, we will not have sustainability. For sustainability is about replacing an ethic of entitlement with an ethic of sufficiency. And sufficiency is what we find in each other.
It is not cars that are the enemy of the pedestrian. The enemy is the absence of civic communion, the lack of empathic citizenship, our inability to see cohabitation as that place where we enjoy ourselves, by enjoying others. All human traffic is under siege, because it is becoming increasingly purposed, guarded, and negotiated. The body is not just a means of locomotion. It is our chief means of restoring a city to its raison d’être, its purpose. And that purpose is civil encounter.
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- The problem is to make people aware that anonymity is as toxic to the ecology of heart as hydrocarbons are toxic to the atmosphere.
- The problem is how to restore intimacy, curiosity, trust, and play into the happenstance encounter of citizens, in an era when the happenstance and the unpredictable are a threat.

23 Jan 08

A Daily Dose of Architecture: Half Dose #43: Tile for Yu-un

This I love. It reminds me of a really cool and timely update of Frank Lloyd Wright's ideas about texture, and how the appropriate emphasis on surface texture will relate to your bodily experiences, will make you experience time differently (perhaps more slowly -- note the knobby quality of the highly polished "bon-bons" vs the smooth glass of the entry, not to mention the strict geometry of the stairs (see esp'y the 3rd picture).

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