stampoutarchitecture - the seminar UTA 2005

stampoutarchitecture
a seminar at the university of texas at arlington school of architecture
spring 2005 - roger connah

departure:
1 why do we start from where we start?
2 how does this shape our enquiry henceforth?
3 the irish joke - asked where the post-office is bthe
Irishman replies : well, if I were you I woulnd't start from here?

soon to come: fragments on the 'contemporary'

seminar 31.1.2005

triggers - metaphors - edits:
1 Four working approaches to the narrative:
i am architecture (the education of an architect)

-thesis
-graphic novel
-fiction
-confession(s)

2 dylan -chronicles p.73
"america was changing. i had a feeling of detiny and i was riding
the change. New York was as good a place to be as any.
My consciousness was beginning to change, too, change and
strenth. One thing for sure, if I wanted to compose folk songs
I would need some kind of new template, some philosophical
identity that wouldn't burn out. It would have to come on
its own from the outside. Without knowing it in so many words, it
was beginning to happen."

3 The revolutionary potential of ripping carpet off the
uta lift - bad maintenance or a scream for a new lift.
Or the anti-aesthetic code in need of an aliminium skin.

4 To skin or not to skin: the 'facade police' and consensus
terrorism in architecture.

5 Venturi - lost histories and meta-histories -
re-structuring history

6 complexity and contradiction - two of the big
ideas outside architecture that have found their way in

7 resisting theory; the shape of resistance,
the influence of the accepted narrative

8 Life- the board/bored game.

text/trigger2 : first architectural shock - from ignorance
to awareness - the first architectural encounter at school.