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		<title>Metaforms: Against Banality and Beyond Signification</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tedb0t</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://log.liminastudio.com/itp/metaforms-itp/metaforms-against-banality-and-beyond-signification' addthis:title='Metaforms: Against Banality and Beyond Signification '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>    For too long the insipid sway of developers and their pandering architects have dominated our built environment, both urban and para-urban.  For too long, the space around us has been subjugated like a pack mule, denigrated as factories and condominiums, forced to bend to the insipid will of its blind and slavering occupants, who [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://log.liminastudio.com/itp/metaforms-itp/metaforms-against-banality-and-beyond-signification' addthis:title='Metaforms: Against Banality and Beyond Signification '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><p>    For too long the insipid sway of developers and their pandering architects have dominated our built environment, both urban and para-urban.  For too long, the space around us has been subjugated like a pack mule, denigrated as factories and condominiums, forced to bend to the insipid will of its blind and slavering occupants, who see only the vapid emptiness of their own imaginations reflected in the plaster molds and popcorn ceilings of their cheap, mass-produced living-cells. </p>
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<p>    We, the arch-Poetechts of the new order, will topple the doomed towers of the trite and banal to rebuild anew the apotheosis of the Beautiful: the perfectly functionless.  Function or architectural program can <em>only diminish</em> Architecture.  &#8221;Funtionalism&#8221; is a decoy of legitimacy: just as Historicism fails to legitimize the built work as Architecture by appealing to the illusion of authority, so Functionalism fails to legitimize its Form by appealing to the ostensible needs of the &#8220;user&#8221; of the built space.  We renounce the myth of Form versus Function, as Function has no place within Art, Poetry or Architecture.  Space has no users, only readers.</p>
<p>    Only as readers of space are we capable of viscerally experiencing the Poetry of space, and only via Poetry can space become Architecture.  Conversely, it is via program that Architecture devolves into mere building.  We have determined the following salient and imperative properties of true Architecture:</p>
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<li>The Urscape: the impossible primordial field of the unknown; the mysterious; the domain of Form.  The Urscape is beyond Diagram, but lends the work the ability to be diagrammed; the Ur-scape is the conceptual framework for the development of the Poem or architectural &#8220;Spacetext.&#8221;</li>
<li>The Sublime: not goal but paragon, not destination but horizon—the Sublime is the measure against which all Poetry, and therefore Architecture, is judged.  The reader&#8217;s experience of the Spacetext is understood by the Sublime Circle: the infinite continuum where, at the point of maximum sublimity, Beauty becomes indistinguishable from Terror:    
<p><div id="attachment_108" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/sublime_circle.jpg"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-108" title="The Sublime Circle" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/sublime_circle-300x260.jpg" alt="The Sublime Circle" width="300" height="260" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">The Sublime Circle</p></div></li>
<li>The Enigmatic: the great Mystery that surrounds all works of Art in thick Arcadian mists.  Enigma defies the easy explanations and rationalizations of the banal art tourists that plague our museums and choke our artistic fora.  The Architecture of the Enigmatic produces perpetually incomplete semantic networks.</li>
<li>The Uncanny: that which confounds the reader, while sustaining her intrigue and passion for the Enigmatic.  The Uncanny discomfits and disturbs the proles and plebes into questioning their surroundings and the conditions of their own existence.</li>
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<div>    Architecture, like Poetry, signifies without communicating.  Any <em>intent </em>to communicate immediately nullifies the Poem / Spacetext, as any sufficiently developed text <em>will</em> communicate without the author&#8217;s intent.  The Poetecht approaches the Urscape with ideas, with inspired dreams of Form, and the Urscape feeds those seeds and multiplies them genetically.  The Poetecht must eradicate rationalization and seek sublimity to produce Architecture.</div>
<div><img title="Architecture is defined by the actions it witnesses" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_SiTBOIutkzw/RnNARxKRCoI/AAAAAAAAACk/Q_7gjBU53Lo/s400/Tschumi,+Bernard,+Advertisement+for+Architecture,+1977.jpg" alt="Architecture is defined by the actions it witnesses" /></div>
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		<title>Metaf0rms: Recombinatory Poem for Bushwick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tedb0t</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://log.liminastudio.com/itp/metaforms-itp/metaf0rms-recombinatory-poem-for-bushwick' addthis:title='Metaf0rms: Recombinatory Poem for Bushwick '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>&#8220;Recombinatory Poem for Bushwick&#8221; is a series of four stencils that I have tagged around Bushwick that are each a line from a poem, and can be read in any order by the day-to-day resident, worker or flâneur.  The poem reads, in one of 16 possible forms: Our hearts lie Where streets beat Like broken [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://log.liminastudio.com/itp/metaforms-itp/metaf0rms-recombinatory-poem-for-bushwick' addthis:title='Metaf0rms: Recombinatory Poem for Bushwick '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><p>&#8220;Recombinatory Poem for Bushwick&#8221; is a series of four stencils that I have tagged around Bushwick that are each a line from a poem, and can be read in any order by the day-to-day resident, worker or flâneur.  The poem reads, in one of 16 possible forms:</p>
<blockquote><p>Our hearts lie<br />
Where streets beat<br />
Like broken drums<br />
Our lies repeat</p></blockquote>
<p>A <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&amp;hl=en&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=40.704156,-73.935252&amp;spn=0.002489,0.00346&amp;t=h&amp;z=18&amp;msid=101813152352478930249.0004570f9d77ab1bd42cc">Google-Maps-is-the-best</a> shows the positions of the four lines.<br />
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		<title>Metaforms: Citymerge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tedb0t</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://log.liminastudio.com/itp/metaforms-itp/metaforms-citymerge' addthis:title='Metaforms: Citymerge '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>I thought it might be interesting to seek examples of the opposites or corollaries to the requested words, or an instance where the tension between them is manifested.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://log.liminastudio.com/itp/metaforms-itp/metaforms-citymerge' addthis:title='Metaforms: Citymerge '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div><p>I thought it might be interesting to seek examples of the opposites or corollaries to the requested words, or an instance where the tension between them is manifested.</p>
<p><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/01_rarefaction1.jpg"  title="DENSITY / RAREFACTION" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-22" title="DENSITY / RAREFACTION" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/01_rarefaction1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/02_stillness1.jpg"  title="TIME / STILLNESS" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-23" title="TIME / STILLNESS" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/02_stillness1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/03_powerless1.jpg"  title="POWER / POWERLESSNESS" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-24" title="POWER / POWERLESSNESS" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/03_powerless1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/04_banality1.jpg"  title="DRAMA / BANALITY rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-25" title="DRAMA / BANALITY" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/04_banality1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/05_adhoc1.jpg"  title="CRAFTSMANSHIP / AD-HOC" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-26" title="CRAFTSMANSHIP / AD-HOC" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/05_adhoc1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/05_adhoc1.jpg"  rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/06_transition1.jpg"  title="BOUNDARY / TRANSITION" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-27" title="BOUNDARY / TRANSITION" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/06_transition1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/07_anarchy1.jpg"  title="CLASS / ANARCHY" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-28" title="CLASS / ANARCHY" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/07_anarchy1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/08_ancient1.jpg"   title="FUTURISTIC / ANCIENT" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-29" title="FUTURISTIC / ANCIENT" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/08_ancient1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/09_decay1.jpg"  title="GENTRIFICATION / DECAY" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-30" title="GENTRIFICATION / DECAY" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/09_decay1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/10_silent1.jpg"  title="LOUD / SILENT" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-31" title="LOUD / SILENT" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/10_silent1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/11_order1.jpg"  title="CHAOS / ORDER" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-32" title="CHAOS / ORDER" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/11_order1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/12_use1.jpg"  title="WASTE  / USE" rel="lightbox[roadtrip]"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-33" title="WASTE  / USE" src="http://log.liminastudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/12_use1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a></p>
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