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@nickkahler / nickkahler.tumblr.com

chronicling an eclectic labyrinth of architectural contemplation based in new york city
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The history of prison building has become a sequence of short-lived ideals that were challenged, faltered, and then failed. Near the end of the 20th century, this sequence becomes almost comic - like an accelerated movie. It has become impossible to build a prison that is not, at the moment of its completion, out-of-date.

Rem Koolhaas, “Revision: Study for the Renovation of a Panopticon Prison, Arnhem, Netherlands,” in SMLXL, 1979-81

#rem koolhaas#prison#building#sequence#short#life#ideal#fail#falter#challenge#comic#movie#impossible#jail#obsolete#architecture#design
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Our more litigious culture and [regulatory] agencies imbued with a sense of fiduciary and public trust mean [that] those who commission architecture aren't willing to take chances ... [resulting in] cookie-cutter solutions and a lot of repetition in terms of the same firms getting the same types of commissions and using the same materials.

Rick Bell, “Guerrilla Architecture as Development,” 2005

#rick bell#litigious#culture#regulatory#agency#fiduciary#public trust#commission#architecture#client#chance#solution#repetition#firm#material#design#challenge#international style
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Sometimes the solution to the forces at play is an economic building; sometimes you need to focus people’s imagination with architecture. [The challenge is] to analyze in a coldblooded way what particular equation is required. The success, in conventional terms, is less guaranteed — you have less control over the project. But that’s thinking in artistic terms, if you consider your building a piece of art.

Alejandro Aravena, “On Social Architecture,” 2016

#alejandro aravena#quote#architecture#solution#play#economy#imagination#challenge#equation#control#artistic#art#focus#design
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With audacious simplicity, the counter-monument thus flouts any number of cherished memorial conventions: its aim is not to console but to provoke; not to remain fixed but to change; not to be everlasting but to disappear; not to remain ignored by its passersby but to demand interaction; not to remain pristine but to invite its own violation and desecration; not to accept graciously the burden of memory but to throw it back at the town's feet. By defying itself in opposition to the traditional memorial's task, the counter-monument illustrates concisely the possibilities and limitations of memorials everywhere. In this way, it functions as a valuable 'counter-index' to the ways time, memory, and current history intersect at any memorial site.

James E. Young, "The Counter-Monument: Memory Against Itself in Germany Today," 1992

#james e. young#quote#counter-monument#unmonumental#memory#simplicity#convention#disappear#desecrate#violate#challenge#oppose#possibility#memorial#monument#index#history#site#space#design
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Psychological Flow Diagram as a Function of Skill and Challenge Levels, c. 2000

Csíkszentmihályi identifyed the following six factors as encompassing an experience of flow:

  1. Intense and focused concentration on the present moment
  2. Merging of action and awareness
  3. A loss of reflective self-consciousness
  4. A sense of personal control or agency over the situation or activity
  5. A distortion of temporal experience, one's subjective experience of time is altered
  6. Experience of the activity as intrinsically rewarding, also referred to as autotelic experience

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#flow#diagram#apathy#boredom#relaxation#control#arousal#anxiety#worry#skill#challenge#psychology#color#mihaly csikszentmihalyi#factor#autotelic
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