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page127from Building Ideas
14 Le Corbusier – Carpenter Centre, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, 1959-63.(Alistair Gardner)
15 Le Corbusier – Carpenter Centre, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, 1959-63.(Alistair Gardner)
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page126from Building Ideas
The
very heterogeneity of the definition of architecture – space, action, and
movement – makes it into that event, that place of shock, or that place of the
invention ourselves.26
This
notion of self invention recalls the thinking of Merleau-Ponty on the work of
art, particularly as a means of portraying the encounter between the artist and
the things of the world. Tschumi also makes an interesting counterpoint to the
idea of place as something fixed and stable, as he describes a more dynamic and... more ...
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page124from Building Ideas
was recently published along with two sets
of photographs, one of the building and the other showing figures in motion.
Reminiscent of fashion photography, this was the architect’s decision, to try
to capture the sub-conscious context behind the conceptual process:
They
are meant to be shown next to each other to express the two aspects mentioned
above: the idea of movement as a structuring principle, and the way in which
the specific architectural imagination is engaging with the collective imagination.24
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page123from Building Ideas
Two
independent channels of resistance proffer themselves against the ubiquity of
the Megalopolis and the exclusivity of sight. They presuppose a mediation of
the mind/body split in Western thought. They may be regarded as archaic agents
with which to counter the potential universality of rootless civilization. The
first of these is the tactile resilience of the place-form; the second is the
sensorium of the body. These two are posited here as interdependent, because
each is contingent on the other. The place-form is inaccessible to sight alone just
as simulacra exclude the tactile capacity of the body.23
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