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(Continuous Monument)


So what to do in this rainy weekend? Shopping Is The Only Way Out of the Rain ? What to do when the shopping mall has absorbed all experience, when it became The Ultimate Experience ? A too frequent his business space, I end up wondering if Singapore is anything but a mineral surface upon which it wanders a little haggard, a promotional cardboard cup in his hand, sucking a soda, 110kcal, 28g carbohydrate, 'm Lovin'it , pending Monday. SMS Save My Soul.

Let me dream, Singapore, as I began to doubt my own reflection in your windows. What areas of your incredible shopping malls , your integrated resorts Are they museums? These millions of square meters of land covered by the walkways, elevators, underground tunnels, escalators, to the subway, to the airport which connects again, without my foot does not crowd the true ground without stop once the regular rhythm of rolling my suitcase on joints of the pavement, to the millions of square meters of the pavement, from Kuala Lumpur to Hong Kong, Paris, New York, London, Tokyo ... Is it the continuous monument? A real experience, as we promise slogans, but can be an experience that has nothing to sell me, because I already bought everything?

Going to new destinations, new lifestyles , in the global network of cities including Singapore is secure artificial first doors. Global instability flee and find refuge in this oasis of peace and social economic backed by real estate assets. Pass, such as young urban professionals to Singapore Dubai stadium, Together to Ease Your Lif e , Doha, Qatar Experience, Brunei, Excellent Leadership and Good Governance for National Prosperity and Stability ... capitalism.
Experience and destination. It is still in the Wild West of someone. All these flows that travel the world relentlessly. Go, go back, go back .. Moves Are there still to go and meet another real or otherwise? Or just looking for lifestyle experience in shopping malls and resorts increasingly integrated Ultimate ? Shopping as cultural horizon. Real Estate as the ideological horizon. Art as a solution gap. 33.33% Finance, 33.33% concrete, 33.33% Communication. It remains 0.01% architect for your ideas. It's not bad, right?

and bonus New Proletariat here to read

excerpted from the article by Francois Decoster Toyo Ito, VivoCity, Singapore in 2010 Frog/Numero9

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(Ed Ruscha)

Culture Black & White and Ed Ruscha Snapshots
likes to remind "I grew up in a world uncolored " All movies, magazines, comicbooks who were fascinated by black and white.
The journey of seven months he made in 17 European countries with his mother and his brother opened the doors of photography, but rather as a way of documenting his future paintings. "Photography allows me to flat, two-dimensional reality, which then facilitates my inspiration for my paintings" . Moreover, these photos are essentially implemented the techniques he learned in school. His eye is walking distance but keeping true face movements, activity, few people, just things. Among the 450 reported no picture only shows the Eiffel Tower, Montmartre and the Acropolis, and does not attach to data subjects. They address only the curiosities and a "plastic" of ordinary scenes and isolated patterns, which creates a whole rather vernacular. He does not ever figure of notes on the place or date, confirming an anonymity that reflects the desire to capture details and impressions "I do not thinking I saw something that seemed to have vitality, and I the capture.

series, books, style
Not Returning from Europe, Ruscha began to sort and look at his pictures and changes its impulse to take photographs focusing on the series, while keeping the idea of a flattening of reality for future graphics. The first of these "products" for the everyday consumer goods, taken as a state, that is to say, used, damaged, lost and found, the readymade. Approach still passive, but this time local, by which it continues to be a kind of memory.
Gradually he began new series, and developed his passion for books, "for the finished pieces to the tactile sensations" . He published 17 books in 16 years each dedicated to a series. Books materialize gradually these inspirations, and allow it to refine it as and when the idea of objectivity and refusal of any style or look to the subject being photographed. He thus established a frame for each, where the images arising on a predefined grid, looking for a strict neutrality and clarity. And no style is gradually becoming a style that archive now works in paper.

gasoline stations 26 & 34 parking lots
"I had the vision to be a reporter when I did a series on petrol stations. I was Oklahoma's return to Los Angeles five or six times a year, and I saw all these areas fallow telling me that someone would surely bring in their new city. Take petrol stations, unique landmark in the desert landscapes, still in the same way, was for me the most direct way to bring this news, the easiest way to take the facts. It was just a manual, as an instruction manual, for people who wanted to know more about things like that .
All stations have the same composition, dictated by the same structure function: garage, shop, pool and overlooking a brand, a logo. What interests Ruscha, besides the kinematic effect snapashot itself (it runs, it stops, it always takes the same picture, he goes) it's the little details that emerge then, signs that companies put in place to allow their client to identify. By this repetitive action, which permeates his entire approach, this neutrality that seeks and explores it through different frames (photographic recording technique, grids of these books, functional structures like buildings) it highlights the differences, details, and exalts them, while remaining disengaged.
The conceptual work will take an even more abstract with the series 34 parking lots in Los Angeles. One Sunday morning when the car parks are empty, he rented a helicopter and a professional photographer and over the city for an hour and a half, giving instructions to photographers taking pictures for him.
These aerial photographs to create a funnel vision, and depth of field that can not be measured or defined. In these particular images, taken from above from a relatively low altitude, the view does not generate the illusion of spatial depth, but rather suggests a flat slope on a diagonal. Looking back on the first photographs of Ruscha, including this view of Venice taken in 1961, then we feel with those pictures of car parks which these aspirations were already present, but in an uncontrolled state. What makes this work with air, with the conceptual baggage that it has implemented, is that the extension of research started intuitively 8 years earlier and which continues, a flattening of reality, the play of diagonals and perspectives, and the slow and meticulous streamlining these impressions.
and bonus on the Sunset Strip, a folder of 9 meters long and which are photographed every building on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles


Book. Photographer Ed Ruscha
, Whitney Steidl Publishing, 2006
Video. Ed Ruscha
talks about his work here
Tracks.
The Doors, LA Woman, there

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do almost (nothing) is almost
very well Sc
Some areas are motivated primarily by the maximalist, architecture is part, distinguished by his need to prove infinite. Success depends on the contents of the portfolio, the size of the project, the prestige of the client, the deluge of advertising and the narcissistic, compulsive personality and theatrical architect, for whom everything is never enough. The unbridled ambition is the hallmark of prestigious agencies and schools of architecture, or "go home" is considered renounce. For anyone hoping to escape the drudgery of basically meet the demand of the customer Program, sleeping under his office is perfectly normal. To become an architect thinking, creative is not enough just to be able to do anything, we must also do so. Work, work, work is the watchword.

Faced with this barrage of energy, nothing should be left to chance, the architect tries to control everything and what matters is to install a total of universe .. Everything must be completely worked, leaving no open issues, nor any hole unfilled. Based on complete overhaul, the architecture tries a touch of reality rather than the addition of subtle touches. She always wants strategies, while tactics are often better solutions.

For much of contemporary architecture, the competition file seems to represent the single condition. It is seen as a framework that is authoritatively defined or the project must go, it must fulfill his mission without question the mission more than that. By taking this relationship to the program, the architecture starts to inevitably depends on its quality. If the program is awkwardly defined, which is often the case with competitions, then the architectural response to the question can not be much smarter. The program is not an ultimate given, but material to be processed, considered, tested, questioned and if necessary, redefined.

This act re-examine the issue can cause a variety of architects to radical conclusions. One of them may be to reject the project. There
example, the infamous episode concerning the architect Cedric Price and the married couple who asked him to build a house. When they began to explain what they wanted, they had an argument, evidently marking their different desires and concepts about the house. Price has finally stopped, and told them what they needed was not an architect, but a lawyer, and dismissed the order. Although Price did not do the project, it clearly did not do anything. He made a proposal regarding the urgency to put its customers at the fact that the real problem was not to build a house, but to rebuild their relationship. What is a constructive refusal.

is also the case when the project will not materialize as a work like the famous composition by John Cage called 4'33 "which consists of a pianist sitting at the piano and not playing for exactly 4 minutes 33 seconds. This obviously is not nothing, and it becomes a really dense scenario. The audience begins to wonder what is happening and why the musician begins to play. To offset the unbearable silence, the spectators begin to emit sounds furtive, scraping their throat, nervously gesticulating .. Only when the player gets up and leaves the stage as the auditorium suddenly realize that the performance for which he came and looked forward to coming to an end.
What could have appeared at first as an annihilation of the music soon proved otherwise. By preventing it from playing music, Cage gives the possibility al'audience listen to the sound of silence, and therefore in the same way that broadens the concept of Beuys' work of art, it radically expands the concept of music by eliminating the distinction between sound and noise. The suspension action is expected can lead to produce something substantial. It might be interesting architecture can reserve the right to take advantage of this form of action reversed.


Texts.
The abolition of activity as it alienates and separated from the life that goes Guy Debord
Doing (almost) nothing is (almost) all right, Ole Bouman
Reprogramming architecture, Ilka & Andreas Ruby
bigness , Rem Koolhaas