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Immaterial Architectures : Raveningham Pavilion and The Architecture of Natural Light Christopher Wilmarth ; Poetics/Duality of Light and gravity Other Architecture Constructing Metaphysical Space Wilmarth’s art reveals his essential concern with the mystical and physical properties of light, especially the ways in which light evokes reverie and generates sensations of space and containment. The Architecture…

TIME/ACTION/DIAGRAM : Kairos  Outpost 290722 TIME/ACTION/DIAGRAM. Maya Deren’s 1948 film, Meditation on Violence. Two parabolic arcs describe three types of Chinese boxing in a single continuous movement. The last portion of the film is printed in reverse motion. DURATION The not yet meets the already gone. A fluid, flowing time is interwined with an experience…

Mediators : Vessels and Drawings creating Intercessors Spaces/Aesthetics : ‘Spatiality’ between Objects, Concepts and Beings In his discussion of mediators, Gilles Deleuze (1995,121) describes being taken up in the motion of a big wave. He notes that instead of looking for ‘points of origin’ attention should be directed to mediators that enable a ‘putting-into-orbit’ that…

Studio Works  Outpost 050822 The Thinking Field/Speculative Curriculums. The Body-In-Action/Making Spaces between Art, Architecture, Archaeology and Anthropology. Sequences of actions that add up to an observational-heuristic procedure. Conserved without restoration of lost detail. The problem of historical materials, which we can never ignore but can’t imitate directly either, is an issue that has always concerned…

Lightness/Synthesis/Solitude  Outpost 190822 LIGHTNESS QUICKNESS EXACTITUDE VISIBILITY MULTIPLICITY Six Memos for The Next Millennium. Italo Calvino, 1992. The difference between the first versions I read and the final ones lies in structure, not content. Calvino wanted to call the sixth lecture ‘consistency’ and he planned to write it in Cambridge. I found the others, all…

Some approaches and interpretations of phenomenology in architecture.  Outpost 020922 Perceptual Experience. On The Nature of Things. The notion of specific agential intra-actions in architectural practice. Thingification, the turning of relations into things,  entities, relata, all infects much of the way we understand the world and our relationship to it. Karen Barad sees reality composed…

Visual Substance : Inter-Subjective Encounters Outpost 090222 Architectural Body/Procedural Architecture Organism/Person/Environment Earth, House, Hold, Dwelling Places. Unlike the sense of sight or hearing, only the sense of touch can discern space and time at once. The skin as the harbourer of a subjects sense of touch. Skin/Subjectivity becomes as flesh a connective tissue which both…

Radical Perspectives : Sky Watching /Outpost Studio Space  Outpost 070922 Radical Perspectives. Space-time Manifolds. Intertwined cinemas within a bottle of light. Fissure space reflection on underside of suspended cinemas. Concept Studies/Diagrams. Space was perceived by the body moving through time. Parallax, Steven Holl. Plastic Media Performative Apparatuses. The Observer and The Observed. A return via…

Outpost 150922     Drawing Space. The Material Discursive. Figurative Configurations/Bodies and Landscapes. Jenny Saville. Intimate Drawings Wall Scratchings Situatedness of intra-activities. A matrix and an archive. It was the crucible of his art, and one of the most hauntingly eloquent spaces an artist has ever surrounded himself with. In Giacometti’s Studio. The hermit’s cave.…

Assemblages/Architectural Prototyping : Formative Ideas.  Outpost 220922 Architectural Prototyping. Formative Ideas. Setting things adrift in the direction of other assemblages. The Refrain. Deleuze and Guattari. Enchantment entails a state of wonder, and one of the distinctions of this state is the temporary suspension of chronological time and bodily movement. To be enchanted, then is to…