ive seen guys sitting on the downslope with their legs dangling over the side right about where he is caulking. i dont know how they can do it. i get vertiginous looking down from my fifth story roof.
- dave 3-15-2007 7:45 pm [add a comment]

i believe thats actually the architect bernard tschumi. hes a stickler for details.

Tschumi's critical understanding of architecture remains at the core of his practice today. By arguing that there is no space without event, he designs conditions for a reinvention of living, rather than repeating established aesthetic or symbolic conditions of design. Through these means architecture becomes a frame for "constructed situations," a notion informed by the theory, city mappings and urban designs of the Situationist International.

Responding to the absence of ethical structure and the disjunction between use, form, and social values by which he characterizes the postmodern condition, Tschumi's design research encourages a wide range of narratives and ambiences to emerge and to self organize. Although his conclusion is that no essentially meaningful relationship exists between a space and the events which occur within it, Tschumi nonetheless aligns his work with Foucault's notion that social structures should be evaluated not according to an apriori notion of good or evil but for their danger to each other. In this way, Tschumi's work is ethologically motivated, in the sense that Deleuze uses the term to propose an emergent ethics that depends on a reevaluation of self/identity and body. Freedom is thus defined by the enhanced range of capacity of this extended body/self in conjunction with an extended self awareness through doing your own caulking. By advocating recombinations of program, space, and cultural narrative, Tschumi asks the user to critically reinvent him/herself as a subject.

Tschumi wasn't available to do his own caulking this week so one of the residents did it to encourage a wide range of narratives and ambiences to emerge and to self organize.
- tom moody 3-15-2007 8:03 pm [add a comment]

what a bunch self important clap-trap. bill, youre making me work too hard to ferret out your embedded jokes. got anything in a milhaus?
- dave 3-15-2007 8:50 pm [add a comment]

made me crack up laughing!
- L.M. 3-15-2007 8:53 pm [add a comment]

the fink cries wolfe


- bill 3-15-2007 9:08 pm [add a comment]

It used to be about the caulking.
- tom moody 3-15-2007 9:11 pm [add a comment]

Who is Milhous, by the way? (Besides Nixon.)
- tom moody 3-15-2007 9:13 pm [add a comment]

wuuuuzzzzuuuuuppp

milhous ~ bauhaus - its about the glasses


- bill 3-15-2007 9:32 pm [add a comment]

Dave, I was going to bring your shoes over after I finished my chore and I've finished my chore but it has started raining so to hell with it. Going back tomorrow unless the temp does drop another 30 degrees and it snows like it might but in any case I will leave the shoes over here. Milhous is Bart's friend.
- jimlouis 3-15-2007 9:37 pm [add a comment]

When you put Milhous in Wikipedia it takes you directly to Nixon.
- tom moody 3-15-2007 9:42 pm [add a comment]

i have shoes?

if i click them three times will they get me out of here?

- dave 3-15-2007 11:22 pm [add a comment]

No, you have Tschus.
- tom moody 3-15-2007 11:29 pm [add a comment]

and they will get tschu out of here
- bill 3-15-2007 11:52 pm [add a comment]

finally, a joke for me. those german spelling bees must be brutal.
- dave 3-15-2007 11:57 pm [add a comment]

swiss
- bill 3-16-2007 12:01 am [add a comment]

well, the architect may be swiss but das wort und die sprache ist deutsches.
- dave 3-16-2007 12:16 am [add a comment]

I thought he was Japanese.
- tom moody 3-16-2007 12:19 am [add a comment]

gesundheit
- bill 3-16-2007 12:24 am [add a comment]