VERY HELPFUL:
in response to the relationship between the TVA and Modernism, between a State of Exception and modernism, between state power and tabula rasa as an ideal design condition/goal:
- Modernism as always needing a Tabula Rasa (one that was always gridded)
- Is the Green Zone modernism?
other historical examples (related):
- Brasilia (something about 10 old sheets of paper???)
- UN Headquarters
- Laws of preservation
- Chandigarh
Talk to AD about exploring this connection between modernism and state power/state of exception for my paper topic.
Use case studies to explore didactic states/types of exception:
- Basic questions: what was intention, what is the product/outcome
*object, organization - noun & verb, is it consciously representational or not?
- Make a 50-case matrix, 1 hour each, looking for salient issues to start actually making connections/groupings/deductions/assumptions
- for example, TH had a nice little blurb for the TVA case: It was intended to always increase potential.
In relation to my mention of the Roche & Laveaux article:
- Scripting vs. scripts
- 'scripting' as tactic (or strategy?)
- vs. a field manual
- assemble a set of case studies on TACTICS [and perhaps another one on OPERATORS] within these case studies of states of exception
- start thinking of small interventions that reverberate (as opposed to modernism); small scale but city wide
TACTICS
- Francois Roche: Dust Bunny Building (also garbage collector thing?)
- Things become infrastructure when they are controlled (see: Air after Pollution)
- Law/Code as soft infrastructure
'Negative' or opposite of infrastructure
- Matter is what is being controlled
- Maybe architecture can produce a state of exception rather than just build on one. This has huge potential for agency, no?
TACTICS
- Sophie Calle - artist - w/Paul Auster (Maybe talk to MM?) (Total Recall??)
- understand scripting as a contemporary architectural tactic. Like:
D+S Blur
Rem doing Wired
- Jameson, "Enclaves..." in Assemblage (Zeebrugge, "seeds of time" (?))
- Hans Hollein - later interventions/happenings (tactics...)
10.18.2007
Notes from Meeting with TH: 10_05_07
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YESSSSSSSSS!!! I love your matrix. And you are so wise to devise a means of assessment for the case study -- I'm been staring down a list of potential case studies and have been feeling a little overwhelmed as to how to most productively approach them. So now I'm going to steal your idea -- thank you! Also, re: Sophie Calle, I saw a really fantastic piece she did at the American pavilion at the biennale this summer--maybe we could discuss. Also, in terms of states of exception, I was thinking that it could be interesting to consider--maybe with a slightly more sociological bent--places that are conducive to behaviors that are normatively off-limits -- a really dumb and lame example is just that at the beach its totally cool to be mostly naked in a way that it is generally not ok to walk down the street in your underwear. A slightly smarter and more architectural example might be the scenario I described in the Eliasson post on my blog -- the production of a space that provokes users to throw culturally normative behavior to the wind . . .
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