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Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
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11/03/2010
SHABASHNIK
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"Shabashing" was a free market anomaly in a planned socialistic society. Because the shortage of productive workers jeopardized the completion of five-year plans, collective farms and factories were allowed to hire freelancers (shabashniks) and offer liberal pay based on performance. Teams of shabashniks were universally hated by collective farmers and factory workers, but were tolerated. In the Rusian language, "shabashnik" is particularly negative. Few years ago, shabashniks' activities were still considered going against the socialist moral. Supposedly, shabashniks were parasites taking advantage of momentary difficulties in the planned economy; their huge incomes woke resentment in the collective sector workers and employees and they often appeared as "antisocial elements'.
Partly from: K. Malfliet, La nouvelle loi sur le travail individuel en URSS in RIDC, Paris, 1988
TRIBUTE TO N. SUTYAGIN
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"The biggest undiscovered potential of being in the periphery is the liberation from the established consensus."
M. Jørgensen in Northern Experiments, The Barents Urban Survey 2009
M. Jørgensen in Northern Experiments, The Barents Urban Survey 2009
Dominating the skyline of Arkhangelsk, a city in Russia's far northwest, the 13-story Sutyagin house is belived to be the world's tallest wooden house. Constructed by Nikolai P. Sutyagin over 15 years (starting in 1992), without formal plans or a building permit, the structure deteriorated while he spent a few years in prison. Condemned by the city as a fire hazard, the house was pulled down in spring 2009.
"Shabashnik" is a replica based on the few remaining pictures found on the Internet.
10/01/2010
CITY IN A SUITCASE
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Architectural spaces are in general reduced to images, projections of volumes on planes. What an absurdity! Think a second about what architecture loses when we flatten it on a glossy magazine's corner!
How to balance the loss? How to pass the image in order to show more, to show what is the project's core?
Let's change the medium! Let's represent a three-dimension by another three-dimension!
Though, can we reach, thanks to modelling, the image's level of abstraction? We have to discard superfluity, keep exclusively what is meaningful. Reach the core of the space.
Fit the project in a suitcase
Reduce it
Retain only the essential
Keep the concept
Naked
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Architectural spaces are in general reduced to images, projections of volumes on planes. What an absurdity! Think a second about what architecture loses when we flatten it on a glossy magazine's corner!
How to balance the loss? How to pass the image in order to show more, to show what is the project's core?
Let's change the medium! Let's represent a three-dimension by another three-dimension!
Though, can we reach, thanks to modelling, the image's level of abstraction? We have to discard superfluity, keep exclusively what is meaningful. Reach the core of the space.
Fit the project in a suitcase
Reduce it
Retain only the essential
Keep the concept
Naked
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