I Am Architecture - working blogs 8.2.05

Here are the narrative triggers we discussed yesterday.
These are flexible as more ‘steps’ and ‘texts’ in the
education of an architect are revealed. This way of working
will allow you to refine previous texts later whilst
thinking ahead – spirally – to the eventual completed
narrative. This process will also allow us to continue the
seminar online when I am back in the Hotel Architecture.

Once again, everyone consider preparing a text
(even a graphic text – remember 500 words initial entry)
for the competition below – you all have the ability to
write and situate yourselves in this increasingly ambiguous
zone between the privileged alienation of a profession and the blurred
public perception of that profession. If you can’t do it,
don’t expect professors and instructors to do it – if you doubt this
see my Tokyo Flash Notes (2003)

Walking across campus yesterday, and then onto Chase Manhattan
Bank on East Border Street, the song of Interpol came to mind
– Next Exit: How do the words go? “We’re not going to the town,
we’re going to the city, we’re going to drag this shit around….”
Your next exit?
Go figure!

Happy Pancake Day
rc. 8.2.2005


I am Architecture - working titles
(individual blogs to be completed by March 12th 2005)

NW – Escape Routes, Heidegger and the Bored game
LS – Why I stopped reading Venturi’s C&C on the Third Time and then started again
MK - The Thesis I might do, the Thesis I can’t do
TR - The Parallel World (Post-Privileged Architecture)
TN - Despuntes: Architecture and Untranslatability
KJ - I’ve only finished one book in my life. I don’t lie: life in a graphic novel.
BS – Concrete Poetry.
BB – Derrida and McLuhan: This Architectural Life
RH – The Hacker and Architecture’s Next Game
SW- The Truck or the Porsch: art or architecture?
SB – Collapse: the Da Vinci Code & Architecture
RP - How John Cage & Brian Eno would meet Sonic Boom and interrogate Architecture.
TF – Climbing (&) Architecture
MS – Learning to Fly
MG – Drowned World – Refloating Architecture
RJ – Why I don’t need to read all the Classics to become an architect.