WA/SA [waldrip architects/ s.a.] [architecture- los angeles]
Alberti, Sandro + Sharp, Erin Seeing Red; 13 December, 2002 [text38]
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Just thought it would be a cute title: ‘seeing red’. Because, well, that is the last thing that would come to my mind, regarding these student presentations at SCI-Arc. Maybe the fact that Erin’s non-architecture tag-along guest should have had me ‘seeing red’ (as she impeded me both psychologically and professionally; “how to host a At the review. charming and bubbly guest/ visitor, and focus on the ‘oeuvres’ at hand?”). But no, not even that. But… red… red it was, the last exhibit-review of the week. ‘RE(a)D; Dangerous Liaisons: Artificial Inseminations and the Featureless’. Here is some of the course description: “feature… artificial… inseminate… reflex… reflexive… nocturnal… analogy… Is there such a phenomenon as the ‘featureless’? If so, how might we as architects productively engage such a condition? In a world increasingly dominated by phenomena of overabundance, saturation, and the ‘hyper’,… the featureless lurks as a forgotten, mute, and perceptuallyinactive feature… Through ‘artificial insemination’,… we will move towards reflexive architectures and landscape-architectures of flux, responsiveness, and cyclic distillations… A ‘Museum for Things RE(a)D’ and a ‘Roadside Motel’ will occupy an oscillating and vulnerable terrain… Phenomenal modeling, time-lapse photography, behavioral notations, analogous constructs, etc…. Analogic, metaphoric, narrative, syntactic, parametric modeling, gestural interpretation, appropriation, diagramming, content-to-form, form-to-program, plagiarism, and automatic processes… The research and spatial production of a RED should be thoughtful, but prone to disaster… The results may require architecture and landscape strategies which cannot be finished, but exist in time…
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Red.
Red.
