Tuesday, January 24th., 2017
Pyramids are neither a useful nor a healthy environment for Humanity any more
The antidote to remedy the Pyramid-aeons-old status turned obsolete, always deadly for Humanity and its harmonic evolutionary survival, is given by the Culture, Arts and Science response , emerging from the creative Human Psyche. Heavy , massive , stagnating Pyramid is a very introverted oppressive form , obviously useful in some electromagnetic etc. applications , but not a positive condition for humans. The future begs for extroverted forms and freedom quantum-waves. Every time Human Creativity escapes the elite's abuse or bigotry or self-interest or lethal attention, IT expresses marvelous truths, glorious forms and joyful manifestations; Anticipated but ever stunning, whenever encountered, as in the following architectural concepts .
Where is The Pyramid in the Art Tower of Arata Isozaki ? You think somewhere but in fact nowhere! In the Cleveland MOCA of Farshid Moussavi , looks like somewhere, but actually nowhere! In the Integrating Sequential Wall of Gramazio & Kohler? Nowhere!
Art Tower in Mito, Ibaraki
The design is deceptive in its complexity, appearing at first to be a hexagonal shape. When viewed from above, it becomes clear that the core of the structure is actually 92' by 92' cube. This addresses and resolves the common criticism that many of the newer museums with dynamic forms often face -- that the space is not actually conducive for the display and viewing of art. This well-thought out museum brings the best of both worlds, featuring a visually striking design and ample space to display art.
The Sequential Wall, ETH Zürich, 2008
Elective Course
Credits:Gramazio & Kohler, Architecture and Digital
Fabrication, ETH Zurich
Collaborators: Silvan Oesterle (project lead), Ralph Bärtschi, Mike Lyrenmann
Students: Michael Bühler, David Dalsass, Simon Filler, Milena Isler, Roman Kallweit, Morten Krog, Ellen Leuenberger, Jonas Nauwelaertz de Agé, Jonathan Roider, Steffen Samberger, Chantal Thomet, Rafael Venetz, Nik Werenfels
Industry partner: Häring Timber Engineering, Isoflock
Copyright 2008 Gramazio & Kohler ETH Zurich
dfab.arch.ethz.ch/web/e/lehre/148.html
In the Arta Xhambazi -Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Prishtina, Koshovo- Thesis, one can read the following:
Pyramids are neither a useful nor a healthy environment for Humanity any more
The antidote to remedy the Pyramid-aeons-old status turned obsolete, always deadly for Humanity and its harmonic evolutionary survival, is given by the Culture, Arts and Science response , emerging from the creative Human Psyche. Heavy , massive , stagnating Pyramid is a very introverted oppressive form , obviously useful in some electromagnetic etc. applications , but not a positive condition for humans. The future begs for extroverted forms and freedom quantum-waves. Every time Human Creativity escapes the elite's abuse or bigotry or self-interest or lethal attention, IT expresses marvelous truths, glorious forms and joyful manifestations; Anticipated but ever stunning, whenever encountered, as in the following architectural concepts .
Where is The Pyramid in the Art Tower of Arata Isozaki ? You think somewhere but in fact nowhere! In the Cleveland MOCA of Farshid Moussavi , looks like somewhere, but actually nowhere! In the Integrating Sequential Wall of Gramazio & Kohler? Nowhere!
Art Tower in Mito, Ibaraki.
Arata Isozaki ...
Arata Isozaki ...
Art Tower in Mito, Ibaraki
MOCA Cleveland Exterior from Euclid Avenue--Daytime
Photo by Dean Kaufman
MOCA Cleveland Exterior from Toby's Plaza at Case Western Reserve University
Photo by Dean Kaufman
MOCA Cleveland Exterior View from Mayfield Road
Photo by Dean Kaufman
MOCA Cleveland
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland
The new MOCA Cleveland comes from the architects at Farshid Moussavi Architects. The architects designed an elegant prism to house the museum's collection in a new space that will maximize the 34,000 square foot structure. Zahner was brought on to provide complete facade services for the project, including design assist, engineering, fabrication, and installation of the building envelope & facade of glass and metal.The design is deceptive in its complexity, appearing at first to be a hexagonal shape. When viewed from above, it becomes clear that the core of the structure is actually 92' by 92' cube. This addresses and resolves the common criticism that many of the newer museums with dynamic forms often face -- that the space is not actually conducive for the display and viewing of art. This well-thought out museum brings the best of both worlds, featuring a visually striking design and ample space to display art.
The Sequential Wall, ETH Zürich, 2008
Elective Course
Fabrication, ETH Zurich
Collaborators: Silvan Oesterle (project lead), Ralph Bärtschi, Mike Lyrenmann
Students: Michael Bühler, David Dalsass, Simon Filler, Milena Isler, Roman Kallweit, Morten Krog, Ellen Leuenberger, Jonas Nauwelaertz de Agé, Jonathan Roider, Steffen Samberger, Chantal Thomet, Rafael Venetz, Nik Werenfels
Industry partner: Häring Timber Engineering, Isoflock
Copyright 2008 Gramazio & Kohler ETH Zurich
dfab.arch.ethz.ch/web/e/lehre/148.html
In the Arta Xhambazi -Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Prishtina, Koshovo- Thesis, one can read the following:
"....In order to overcome the dualistic framework
underpinning western philosophy, Deleuze introduces
the notions of assemblage that “swing between
territorial closure that tends to rest ratify them and a
deterritorialising movement that on the contrary
connects them with the Cosmos” [21, p.337].
The concept means the processes of arranging, organizing,
The concept means the processes of arranging, organizing,
and fitting together that
. Assemblage consists and develops around two axes that are:
Figure 4. Left: The smooth and the strained space in regard of notions or
territorialisation deterritorialisation as the vectors of transformation.
Right: The abstract map of horizontal assemblage of architecture with related disciplines
Unluckily, I could not transfer in this post the Arta Xhambazi colourful, interesting diagrams, pp: 16-24, where one can see all societal parts and groups interrelating and functioning in free, smooth ways.
In these diagrams, through an architectural point of view of course , one can pleasantly deduce a useful concept of how a malevolent Pyramid Structure , aka costive, introverted shapes and forms, as e.g. the top page image, can be peacefully dismantled and replaced by a creatively healthy, free environment, aka by extroverted forms and concepts, that connect us to the Cosmos and avoid the rigid Duality difficulty.
It is an "Axes Placement Issue" and it is here for us all to actually apply and materialize, if we so choose.
Maria L.Pelekanaki
PS.Having researched all the above material, names and works in the internet in order to support my "anti-Pyramid diposition", I took the liberty to use them without asking for permission by the relative owners. Hopefully, nobody is offended or hurt.The whole responsibility to use these excellent works "as arguments for my case", as stated in this post , is totally mine.m.l.p.
The first, horizontal axe (Figure 4 on the right)
where assemblage comprises two segments,
content and expression. The first as “machinic
assemblage of bodies, of actions and passions,
an intermingling of bodies reacting to one
another....(and second) a collective assemblage
of enunciation, of acts and statements, of
incorporeal transformations attributed to
bodies” [21, p. 88].
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The vertical axe (shown in Figure 4 on the leftand figure 5) has both, “territorial sides, or reterritorialized sides, which stabilize it, and cutting edges of deterritorialisation, which carry it away” [21, p. 88]. Assemblages are presented
as complex constellations of objects, bodies,expressions, qualities, and territories that come together for varying periods of time to ideally create new ways of functioning.
Unluckily, I could not transfer in this post the Arta Xhambazi colourful, interesting diagrams, pp: 16-24, where one can see all societal parts and groups interrelating and functioning in free, smooth ways.
In these diagrams, through an architectural point of view of course , one can pleasantly deduce a useful concept of how a malevolent Pyramid Structure , aka costive, introverted shapes and forms, as e.g. the top page image, can be peacefully dismantled and replaced by a creatively healthy, free environment, aka by extroverted forms and concepts, that connect us to the Cosmos and avoid the rigid Duality difficulty.
It is an "Axes Placement Issue" and it is here for us all to actually apply and materialize, if we so choose.
Maria L.Pelekanaki
PS.Having researched all the above material, names and works in the internet in order to support my "anti-Pyramid diposition", I took the liberty to use them without asking for permission by the relative owners. Hopefully, nobody is offended or hurt.The whole responsibility to use these excellent works "as arguments for my case", as stated in this post , is totally mine.m.l.p.
diagrams by A. Xhambazi) p:19
International Journal of Contemporary Architecture ”T
he New ARCH“ Vol. 2, No. 3 (2015)
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A. Xhambazi: “Thinking Architecture through the Traits of Extroversion and Introversion: Territory as a Question ...”, pp. 11–24
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International Journal of Contemporary Architecture
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he New ARCH“ Vol. 2, No. 3 (2015)
ISSN 2198-7688
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A. Xhambazi: “Thinking Architectu
re through the Traits of Extrov
ersion and Introversion: Territory as a Question ...”, pp. 11–24
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DOI: 10.14621/tna.20150402
Thinking Architecture through the
Traits of Extroversion and Introversion:
Traits of Extroversion and Introversion:
Territory as a Question of Environmental Orientation and Autonomy
Arta Xhambazi
Faculty of Civil Engineering and Ar
chitecture, University of Prishtina
Dardania 6/9 B4, 10000 Prishtina, Kosovo, arta.xhambazi@uni-pr.edu>