‘The table isn’t in my room, but I think about both things at the same time.’
Part of research for constructing a site, from 2012 with Mack Scogin. #mackscogin
For full video see previous post.
Table, room, table, room, table, room.
Finding differences within remembered similarities. Part of research for constructing a site, from 2012 with Mack Scogin.
For full video see previous post.
Table, table, table.
Research for constructing a site, from 2012 with Mack Scogin while @harvardgsd_architecture
Thanks to @trey.kirk for lending his voice. #mackscogin
The conversational format of what follows is based on the belief that unruly dialogue is more productive than an organized monologue. It draws inspiration from Gregory Bateson’s metalogues, a format which he defines as “a conversation about some problematic subject” where “not only do the participants discuss the problem but the structure of the conversation as a whole is also relevant to the same subject.” The voice of Theoretical Discourse is built from contemporary and historical quotations. The voice of the Average American House is based upon an analysis of statistics.
@log_grams
‘When you look both closely and broadly across the average, you notice that there is so much room for variation. When searching eplans.com for a three- or four-bedroom house with two or three bathrooms, the platform turns up 9,573 unique floor plans. However, many of these “unique” designs are also highly similar. For example, take a look at plans designed by Visbeen Architects, Inc. (eplans.com designer 928).50 Of their 391 published eplans, over 300 have been built in at least one documented iteration. An examination of these plans makes apparent several commonalities, including precise adjacencies and the number and scale of their rooms. It is the variations that are often subtle and harder to spot (e.g., a rotated threshold, a shifted fireplace or closet, or an extended back porch). Sometimes, the variations appear almost inconsequential, until the exterior elevations reveal the wide variety of facades these nearly identical plans can support. From D.R. Horton to eplans.com, it appears that many average houses also exist elsewhere, as another house.’
Excerpt from ‘Do We Know Each Other?’ Published in Log 65, ‘House And Home’
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I am humbled to be part of Log 65, House and Home.
‘The issue features ten novel residential projects – both proposed and built – in full color, with accompanying texts by Daisy Ames, Peder Anker and Mitchell Joachim, Preston Scott Cohen, Thomas Daniell, Joe Day, Jon Lott, Mónica Ponce de León, Maria Alessandra Segantini, Kazuyo Sejima, and Bryan Young and Noah Marciniak. Not to be excluded, the “Average American House” converses with “Theoretical Discourse” in a dialogue stitched together by Taylor Dover. Building on the tension between developers and dwellers, Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Shéréhazade Giudici, Jolanda Devalle, Maya Freeman, and Alicia Pozniak speculate on how the market affects housing while Eric Höweler studies the spatial interplay of work and home. Architect Benedetta Tagliabue discusses how to evoke the feeling of home in public spaces, as do developers Rodrigo Rivero Borrell and Chris Murphy. Hilary Sample, Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon tend to the domestic labor that goes into keeping house. Andrew Witt traces how the introduction of electricity animated the house while Jordan Hicks and Emanuele Coccia watch the ways houses are renovated and homes are redefined both on television and through laws. Excerpts from Frederick Kiesler’s Magic Architecture, Mark Jarzombek and Vikramaditya Prakash’s test of a Reyner Banham proposal, and Sylvia Lavin’s remembrance of Frank O. Gehry all look back on how architects have associated houses with societies, and Fernanda Canales looks ahead to the ways architects could invent places not just for living but for living together.” @log_grams
Current reading stack.
For Space, Doreen Massey
Super Normal, Fukasawa & Morrison @jasper.morrison
Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays, Robin Evans
Organizational Space, Keller Easterling @kellereasterling
Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead
Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Gregory Bateson
At Home, Bill Bryson
Philosophy of the Home, Emanuele Coccia @unicamens
Smaller Architecture, Michael Meredith @mmmosarchitects
