I am back from 60 plus days of travelling and before I organize my experiences and thoughts; I would like to share some of Richard Senna's thoughts on experimentation/ play which I encountered while virtual 'touring' (i am such a tourist. lol) MoMA. It cannot beat going down in person but I guess the hegemonic (the source of constant bitching nowadays) West is still enlightened to share arts and culture online and provide free entry to students. The virtual tour can be found here.
Cliche it might be but here goes:
"Experimentation/ Play… is how one allows oneself to move in directions that one could not have foreseen."
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also, patrik schumacher (director at Hadid's studio and of AA's AADRL programme) once wrote:
"Who is to judge and deny a priori that a strange building will not attract and engender a strangely productive occupation. Such speculative investment might become accepted as intervention research. What right now appears as an assemblage of disjointed trials might soon cohere into a worthwhile development. A decoded architecture—made strange—offers itself to inhabitation as an aleatoric field, anticipating and actively prefacing its own detournement." (Schmacher, “Premise”)
http://www.patrikschumacher.com/DesignResearch.htm
hehz...
the only patrick i know is the one in the Youtube video where hadid screams at....
"PAAAAAATRICK!!!"
"DO YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY... I CAN GET SOMEONE TO SUE YOU..."
ok out of the point i know sorry... cldnt resist...
it's the same patrik.
who is also supposedly her life partner/ husband.
woot! sadomsochist!
anyways its richard seRRa (i m being anal) and i just browsed the same book in national lib on the exhibition. nothing beats flipping pages.
when koolhaas did up seattle lib. he designed it for old school conservatives like me and upcoming virtual yuppies like wuks! lol
i personally find the scattering of resources deeply annoying. Internet provides a certain amount of information on a wide range of topics, but they do not have everything i want. Books, they are either scattered all over the island (mind you, not in a uniform fashion although who am i to bitch since most of the books i need are usually found in the west). Plus one gets the predominantly Anglo-Saxon world view due to our language and the hegemonic political, cultural and thus intellectual dominance of the Americans/Brits.
I doubt Google's proposal of digitizing the World's books is very much possible in the near future due to copyrights. I also doubt I am able to learn another 6 languages to break the Anglo-Saxon dominance in my intellectual pursuits.
I continue to be frustrated. LOL
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