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miami house no. 20


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miami house no. 19


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miami house no. 18


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miami house no. 17


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miami house no. 16


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miami house no. 15


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miami house no. 14


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miami house no. 13


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miami house no. 12


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miami house no. 11


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"Skins & Screens, the graduate-level elective studio offered at the University of Pennsylvania, posits the building surface as a dynamic condition, simultaneously real and illusory, opaque and evanescent. Termed sheer opacity, this quality of enclosure provides an investigative focus for the consideration of surface as a dynamic perceptual ?eld, a site for the mediation of physical and perceptual phenomena. Close analysis of selected work of the West Coast art movement Light and Spaceand that of contemporary installation artists inspired projects that used sheer opacity to examine the possibility of transforming space through the design of the building surface. Projects were developed through a series of “layers” in which students made installations, material constructs, digital simulations, and large-scale detail studies of their proposals."


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"Property seems to be the most real thing there is, which is probably why the grounded manifestation of it is called "real estate." But there's also something unreal—not all there—about property, and we don't need the relative newness of digital commerce to perceive that property has always been a kind of "coinage of the brain." Marx, the seeming consummate materialist, appreciated the supernatural unruliness of property when he talked of chairs charmed by sorcerers, ghosts stomping through Europe, and the ethereal nature of Capital. But we are perhaps at the beginning of another stage of civilization as a sky, annealed by meaning, is crossed by lines, vectors, and channels; as new ethers replace the scud of yesterday's clouds. The creation of real estate in the ether, through electromagnetic spectrum allocation and the proliferation of networks, is the most dramatic transvaluation that the world has recently undergone—though not without precedent. From the early days of radio, ethereal "irrational exuberance" and democratic feeling would formulaically give way to increased privatization of the airwaves, mapping it for the purposes of commerce and security. McKenzie Wark says of this vanilla sky, "It is private property in a purer form, detached from tangible, sensible, material substance—property without properties. It is private property all the easier to privatize because it lacks substantial natural or machine-made form."1 This etherealization of Marx's capitalist ether-net transforms social relations between things to a relation between nothings."


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the most phallic building in the world



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