style wars

"the danger is that the style of the work will be taken as a model - a common failure of communication in any theory of the visual arts. A truly exemplary philosophy of art or architecture should transcend any one practitioner's applications. It should on the most basic, conceptual level, provide a ground plan for a wider range of interpretations without losing its central message." - james wines, "de-architecture"

*Design should not ignore the existing disorder or attempt to tame it. - Premise for my project, applied from my paper.

"Although art cannot radically change the world, it can function as a sensitive chronicler, revealing relationships between aesthetic visions, social order, and natural forces. In this regard, the present climate of risk, and its effect on our lives, is another important source for a narrative architecture." - james wines, "de-architecture"

*When we show design's weak side (decomposition / age) it connects with real life through imperfection.

"...New York has never learned the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs." - Michel de Certeau

*NY is the perfect climate for testing mortality design.