ppt may6 2013
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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
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Le Corbusier (1935) “AircraD”Modernist Planning: Conceiving larger regions from the air.
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Le Corbusier (1935) “AircraD”
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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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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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