ppt may6 2013

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Monday, May 6, 13

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http://www.alexmaclean.com

Monday, May 6, 13

Monday, May 6, 13

American  Landscape  is    Sublime.

“  Everything  falls  into  a  true  perspec<ve—even  man  himself  as  an  integral  part  of  a  whole”—E.  A.  Gutkind

Two  themes:

•  Space  annihilated  by  0me•  Ecological  unity  of  nature  and  human  life  threatened  by  our  own  hubris

Alex  S.  Maclean  ©  photograph

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Alex  S.  Maclean  ©  photograph

Le  Corbusier  (1935)  “AircraD”Modernist  Planning:  Conceiving  larger  regions  from  the  air.  

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Alex  S.  Maclean  ©  photograph

Le  Corbusier  (1935)  “AircraD”

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Alex  S.  Maclean  ©  photograph

View  the  American  Landscape  less  as  a  scenic  &  spacial  phenomenon  and  more  as  an  ac0ve  and  temporal  medium  which  is  fluid,  mobile  and  transient.  

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Alex  S.  Maclean  ©  photograph

Tradi/onal  Measures  •  Capacity  of  measure  to  relate  the  everyday  world  to  the  infinite  &  invisible  dimensions  of  the  universe.•  Development  through  the  rela0onship  of  the  human  body  to  physical  ac0ves  &  materials  Modern  Measures  •  Post-­‐tradi0onal  measures  Socially  and  Symbolic  changed  during  the  scien0fic  revolu0on  of  the  17th  century.  (Galileo,  Bacon,  Newton,  &  Descartes)  •  Things  were  studied  in  isola0on  without  external  interference  

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(pg  53)  Pedological  Dri-.  Fairville,  North  Dakota.  

“measure is intrinsic to the design, habitation & representation of land.”

“Needs to have its own measure because it both resists & absorbs systemic overlays of any type of survey.”

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(pg  73)  Hoover  Dam  and  the  Colorado  River.  Nevada  

Facilitating Possession

* example: National Land Survey

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(pg  113)  Field  Plots.    

Delineating & coordinating particular sequences of events.

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(pg  141)  Longhouse  Cave.  Mesa  Verde,  Colorado

The idea of no excess waste and have everything “fit”

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(pg  162)  Pueblo  Bonito.  Chaco  Canyon,  New  Mexico

“Measure-taking is no science. Measure-taking gauges the between which brings the two, heaven and earth, to one another. This measure-taking has its own metro, and thus its own metric.”— Martin Heidegger

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Alex  S.  Maclean  ©  photograph

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