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The Romantic1 poet John Keats (1795-1821) coined the phrase 'Negative Capability' in a letter written to his brothers George and Thomas on the 21 December, 1817. In this letter he defined his new concept of writing:
I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.
What Keats is advocating is a removal of the intellectual self while writing (or reading) poetry – after all:
Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need know
- Ode on a Grecian Urn, lines 49-50
It was a mystery for a New York minute. On, Tuesday the Astor Place Cube went missing—and neither the police nor local community leaders nor its creator, the famed sculptor Tony Rosenthal, knew where it was.
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Jake Morrissey examines the intense rivalry between two seventeenth-century Italian architects who transformed the architecture of Rome: Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini.
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Heeding urgent pleas from preservation advocates, the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission agreed yesterday morning to hold a hearing on the future of the 1949 Paterson Silks retail building at Union Square. But it was too late.they couldnt even get a decent picture of the damned building!
Hours earlier, the building's most distinctive feature, a double-height, glass-walled tower, had fallen victim to the wrecking ball to make way for a Bank of America branch.
The missed opportunity jolted advocates of midcentury architecture who have been fighting to save the Paterson Silks building and the former Summit Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. Both were designed by the architect Morris Lapidus, best known for his colorful Miami Beach creations like the flamboyant Fontainebleau and Eden Roc hotels.
"I'm going to say a horrible word," warns University of Illinois at Chicago architecture professor Roberta Feldman as she discusses the public's conception of prefabricated housing. "Trailer trash. We link it with people we consider uprooted and mobile." Housing built in a factory doesn't exclusively mean double-wides, and it may offer an affordable alternative to the usual -- and more expensive -- practice of building homes from scratch on-site. But it can be hard establishing a comfort level with a something that often seems as much joke fodder as housing type.by my count thats two words. go ahead, say it again...
Renowned French conceptualist Yves Klein (1928-1962) produced a prescient body of work concerning the concept of air architecture – an immaterial architecture. From 1957 to 1962, Klein developed “Air Architecture,” a visionary project of living environments designed to reconnect people with the Earth and its elements. This concept represents an architecture that engages climate at the origin of its design process, with the ultimate goal of radically transforming society.
Birds and Glass Buildings
Published: March 7, 2005
To the Editor:
Re "A Cube in the Land of the Wheel: Redefining Public Space at the G.M. Building" (news article, March 2 [for the NYT]):
Although the redesign of the General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue seems attractive, it will likely be hazardous to birds, which cannot recognize glass as a solid surface.
Since 1997, New York City Audubon's Project Safe Flight has found more than 4,000 birds that have been killed or injured by flying into glass. The toll includes more than 100 species, 42 percent of which are in decline.
New York City Audubon is raising awareness in the architecture and design community.
We seek opportunities to work with the glass industry to develop a glass that is transparent to humans but visible to birds.
On March 11, architects and conservationists will focus on bird-friendly design at a conference in Chicago.
E. J. McAdams
Executive Director
New York City Audubon
New York, March 2, 2005
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