加拿大建筑中心拾趣

我承认很败家,可在Canadian Centre for Architecture看到一副以建筑为题材的扑克牌"PLAY ARCHITECTURE"时,价钱不菲也毫不犹豫的拿下,实在爱不释手,背面是圆厅别墅平面.正面更是哭笑不得.
摘抄其说明如下:
The theme of the pack is twentieth century architecture
The Four Suits:
diamond (方片) Pre-Modernism
heart (红桃) Post-Modernism
spade (黑桃) Modernism
club (梅花) De-Structuralism
The Jack, Queen, King embody the chief architectural talking heads from each suit
The Ace project captures the concept and suit-style in an independent way
The two JOKERS exist to prod, punctuate, upset and deconstruct whatever the play has so far achieved
The PLAY ARCHITECTUER pack of cards offers infinite possibilities and variations
Hole worlds?
Showing your hand takes on a poker-dimension... expressionists meet the Japanese... these of a kind... A royal flush or face-down with the lonely 2 of spades
Exposed?
Raise your game; play to enjoy architecture... remember when it is in the pot it is no more yours...
Enjoy PLAY ARCHITECTURE.
怎么样,读起来是不是有种后结构Deleuze的感觉?
因为JOKER之一就是Jacques Derrida.柯布是黑桃K,果然是KING; 密斯是黑桃Q,被画成圣母了,手中高举的不是十字架,而是工字钢,太搞了,以后"拱猪"都要拱密斯了;埃森曼把草花K解构了;扎哈作为草花Q比较合适;高迪把圣家族当作方片K的帽子;方片Q我的偶像麦金托什手举新艺术风格的花式.
有趣的说完,该说说专业的东西了.
加拿大建筑中心的临时展览中陈列了很多名家珍贵的手稿,其中有:
1 Robert Venturi / Scott Brown - "Learning from Las Vegas"
这是一张画在一个长幅纸卷上的关于LAS VEGAS城市街道中各种视觉信息的汇集,以名称的文字形式出现.从密集的文字堆中可以清楚地了解城市中心区一条街究竟如何鲜活起来的原因.原文如下:
Adopting Ed Rushca's "Every Building on the Sunset Strip" (1966), as a prototype, Robert Venturi / Scott Brown map the Las Vegas Strip without reference to a single building and re-constitute the urban landscape out of language itself. Their cacophony of overlapping signs not only describes the street as a communication system, but produces the visual noise of postwar urban experience.
2 Rem Koolhass - "CalTrans"
Rem Koolhass has developed the narrative-driven picture book. He asserts a design's logical necessity rather than tells a story of the design process. In this exampler, architectural theory is reduced to an impossibly small number of words just as design is equally condensed to an almost industrially primitive form.
还有其他名家:
3 Elizaberth Diller / Ricardo Scofidio - "The Withdrawing Room"
4 Deniel Liberskind - "Chamber Works: Architectural Meditations on Themes from Heraclitus"
5 John Hejuduk - "The Lancaster / Hanover Masque" 这个很神,我认为约翰海杜克的才华在国内学界没有得到应有的重视,他的东西虽大都未实现却令人深省,绝非一些似是而非的建筑作品能望其项背的.
严禁拍照,不能以飨读者,抱歉.