The traditional modern dialectic of ideal type and real context has been avoided, or rather replaced, by a more complex intercalation of intellectual narrative and material proposition. Here, the city, as existing, stands as the object and generator of so many possible futures, each calculated according to the nature of its opposition to those futures. The architectural project, while crystallizing one or more of these futures, is then presented to the city, so to speak, as a whole, not as a replacement or substitute, as in the utopian urbanism of modernism, but as a material to be submitted to the life and consuming power of the context.

Anthony Vidler, "Oneirism" from The Architectural Uncanny, 1992

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Toshi Takeuchi, Bed, 2008

"It is created with layered leaves that I used for Sleeping Trials. I wanted to monumentalize the experience of the event and my contradicted feeling. The viewers are unable to touch the bed. It invites them to only an imaginary happy sleeping."

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While traveling, do not give yourself over to day dreams, but fantasize and pay attention to everything, even the insignificant details.

Daniil Kharms, The Blue Notebook, c. 1935 (via mythologyofblue)

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Friedrich himself does not even know what he will paint; he waits for the moment of inspiration, which (in his own words) occasionally comes in a dream.

Schukowski, "Letter on Caspar David Friedrich, 1821

#quote #caspar david friedrich #painting #inspiration #art #romanticism #surrealism #dream #sleep #oneirism

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Etymologies of the Month (June 2010)

June introduced Urban Planning and continued Bachelard's Poetics

Urban: "Characteristic of city life," 1619 (but rare before 1830s), from L. urbanus "of or pertaining to a city or city life," as a noun, "city dweller," from urbs (gen. urbis) "city," of unknown origin. The word gradually emerged in this sense as urbane became restricted to manners and styles of expression. Urban renewal, euphemistic for "slum clearance," is recorded from 1955.
Rural: Early 15c., from O.Fr. rural (14c.), from L. ruralis "of the countryside," from rus (gen. ruris) "open land, country," from PIE *rur- "open space" (cf. O.C.S. ravinu"level," O.Ir. roi, roe "plain field," O.E. rum "space;" see room). "In early examples, there is usually little or no difference between the meanings of rural and rustic, but in later use the tendency is to employ rural when the idea of locality (country scenes, etc.) is prominent, and rustic when there is a suggestion of the more primitive qualities or manners naturally attaching to country life."
Oneirism: From Gk. oneiros "a dream." See daydreaming: 1680s (n.), from day + dream. As a verb, attested from 1820.
Hermeneutics (the study of the interpretation of theory): "Interpretive," 1670s, from Gk. hermeneutikos "interpreting," from hermeneutes "interpreter," from hermeneuein "to interpret," considered ultimately a derivative of Hermes, as the tutelary divinity of speech, writing, and eloquence.
Cellar: Early 13c., from Anglo-Fr. celer, from O.Fr. celier "cellar, underground passage" (12c., Mod.Fr. cellier), from L. cellarium "pantry, storeroom," lit. "group of cells;" from cella (see cell), or from noun use of neut. of adj. cellarius "pertaining to a storeroom."
Attic: "Top storey under the roof of a house," 1855, shortened from attic storey (1724). The term Attic order in classical architecture meant a small, square decorative column of the type often used in a low storey above a building's main facade, a feature associated with the region around Athens (see Attic). The word then was applied to "a low decorative facade above the main story of a building" (1690s), and it came to mean the space enclosed by such a structure. The modern use is via Fr.attique. "An attic is upright, a garret is in a sloping roof."
Chrysalis: c.1600, from L. chrysallis, from Gk. khrysallis (gen. khrysallidos) "golden colored pupa of the butterfly," from khrysos "gold," perhaps of Semitic origin (cf. Heb.-Phoen. harutz "gold") + second element meaning something like "sheath."

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The Futurist Manifesto by F. T. Marinetti (1909)

www.italianfuturism.org

One of the most significant architectural narratives written in the 20th Century. Militant, dynamic, exasperated, this text remains controversial to this day.

#dynamism #f.t. marinetti #fascism #futurism #italy #manifesto #oneirism #text #violence #favorite