LAWuNline ROSE&SWAN[info]PuB
Swan and Rose film footage- Lizzie Greene.
audio - Piers Corbyn addressing speakers corner Hyde Park London 30.05.2020
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Sunday, 31 May 2020
AALAWuN pARKlife
Swan and Rose film footage- Lizzie Greene.
audio - Piers Corbyn addressing speakers corner Hyde Park London 30.05.2020
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Saturday, 30 May 2020
Friday, 29 May 2020
AALAWuN uRGENTpresent
LAWuNline WHATSINYOuRfridge[INFO]
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...............invitation to do a short presentation at a half-day symposium on the future of architectural education on Friday, 29 May from 3-7pm.
Titled Urgent Futures: Architectural Education in 2025 -
the symposium invites different voices from across the school to
contribute their ideas to shape the future of a world that needs new
referents about the social, political, technological, and material
agency that architects are able to produce within the designed
environment and to reflect about the fundamental aspects of
architectural education from the History & Theory curriculum to the
making of buildings, while identifying new areas of design and
speculation about the near and urgent future.................
Dear
Manijeh , thanks for the invitation to Urgent
Futures
We
regret DUE TO PRIOR COMMITMENTS that AALAWuN cannot be available . TO
APPEAR VIRTUALLY LIVE, LITRALLY LIVE, ZOOMILOCALLY WITH YOU,
However
LAWuN
appreciates any interest in ITS
work and perhaps the AA is the only school that would give it ‘home
‘ ALIVE
OR DEAD
The
original description of AALAWuN’s tasks was made in 2016
and is available on blog ?
Trouble
is when
I hear
that title "A symposium on the Future Of
architectural education " the heart sinks
I
just reach for a gun !
Breaking
News , the AA has decided that it no longer defines
or experiments with the future of architectural education and
indeed architecture, and indeed the protocols of education
through the work of its students and tutors , it needs a
symposium to do this . ! TAKE
A LEAF FROM THE MICKEY ROONEY AND JUDY GARLAND STRIKE UP THE BAND
FILM - THEY DIDN’T WAIT ON A SYMPOSIUM TO DO SOMETHING THEY WOULD
JUST DO THE SHOW THERE AND THEN; HERE AND NOW!
It
was interesting to hear Paul Smith being very nostalgic
on the
radio about
the old days when he used to say to me he was the Archigram of
British Fashion .. he was now regretting the loss of the
seasonal fashion shows ..... spring , autumn etc coinciding with
the moon and tides ...sorry Paul you’ve lost it !
But
now ..
It's
every 2 weeks a new idea ... from anywhere on the planet ..
Time
and location screwed , rearranged by 4g ,5 g ?
So
perhaps the AA should take a hint from this new normal fashion
timetable ?
Timetables
are yesterday.
Where
you are matters ?
Assessment ,
by whom and in whose interest ?
A
new vocabulary is needed .
No
matter how often you weigh the pig it wont make it any fatter
Academic
calendars are an anchronism ( who said a
degree took 3 years )
Tutors
are
The
planet is a university
What
do we need the university for ???
Definitely
not for data , maybe information , tutors not teachers .
Unless
that is 5 g and its planetary infrastructure get demolished by
war or ?
AALAWuN
in 19// campaigned for a Moratorium on Building
Big
failure
Mark
Fisher used to Taunt me ... " still a lot of a lot of
new building David !'
Nevertheless
suddenly the question is forgrounded by what are buildings , why do
we need them ?
AA
, divest yourself of all that property , think about other strategies
.
We
luckily do not know the future , But we can attempt to understand
the present .
McLuhan
warned us the present is the most difficult project , like the fish
we cannot see the environment we swim in .
New
technology does not replace the previous technology , but it does
change its meaning
However
AA do not gaze into the narcissitic world of
architectrural education , look beyond IS
THIS BEYOND ANYTHING OR A POLITICALLY ENFORCED IMPOSITION ? to
the global implications of a new normal ? NEW
NONSENSE
Think
about Hakim Bey's plea to the world's students , "organise
a strike in your school on the grounds that it does
not satisfy your need for indolence and spiritual beauty ",
Indolence
as a power tool perhaps is that the educational
future realeased by 5g
You
ask about the Invisible university , Like LAWuN it is more a question
, and one that has now been made a reality by the covid lockdown
The
Tutorials we hld in Zetters Hotel bar in 19? And the first staff
meeting in regents P:ark 2004/5?? Are now a reality , zoom and its
family are crude but as a tool it will transform how we learn and
teach .
Urgent
Presents are the issue .
Constant
looking in the rear view mirror cause bad crashes , stay alert !
LAWuN
why don't we do the show right here!
Thursday, 28 May 2020
Wednesday, 27 May 2020
AALAWuN regionalFLAREuP
LAWuNline track&trace[INFO]
with Filoumeni, Natalia and Bryan Parsons - audio news from radio
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Tuesday, 26 May 2020
Monday, 25 May 2020
AALAWuN DOuBLEparked
LAWuNline Giraffe[info]inacaR
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...Keep the park alive,
the proximity and closeness of
the giraffes to the cars and bikes
is a precious urban condition...
Sunday, 24 May 2020
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Friday, 22 May 2020
Thursday, 21 May 2020
AALAWuN COuNTINGcrows
LAWuNline brinGITon![INFO]
edit and music: Aretousa & Natalia Charogianni
audio from radio news
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Wednesday, 20 May 2020
Tuesday, 19 May 2020
AALAWuN pigeon x 2M
AALAWuN Gizza' job![INFO]
film and music Aretousa and Natalia Charogianni
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Monday, 18 May 2020
Sunday, 17 May 2020
AALAWuN distance
LAWuNline
dontbepersistantpleasekeepyoUrdistanceyoUknowmyresistanceislow
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You learn in the military that estimating distance correctly, small or large, is very important when you want to shoot someone or some thing or as a designer you want design something like a garden ,a building or a vacuum cleaner .
But
now the intelligent use of the brain and the eye and the measuring
tape have been replaced , or perhaps augmented is a better word , by
military technology so now shut down your imagination and get out
your rangefinder whether laser, lidar, radar, sonar or
ultrasonic
Important
aside : Does Eames’s beautiful visual poem ‘Powers of Ten’ say
all there is the say about distance or does the film ‘Vanishing
Point’ say it in a different way where distance and time are
intertwined ( Of course ) ,or, distance and feelings collide , as in
the song which pleads .. ‘please keep your distance ,my
resistance is low ‘ ,
Before
this ramble goes any further onto the distance in the landscape we
have to apply a little discipline ,( or rigour that word so loved by
tutors .)
So.
Think
Architects .. Corb always had a tape with him .when he found
something beautiful , a stair or a room he would measure it and
then see these measurements as a tool,( to ensure beauty? )
His
‘theory’ if that is the right word is embodied in Modular Man , a
stew of the Golden Ratio, Vitruvian man , Alberti , the Fibonacci
series.
image Louisa Pires
He
described it as a ‘ range of harmonious measurements to suit the
human scale , universally applicable to architecture and to
mechanical things “
Where
is the ultrasonic rangefinder is this quest for this perfection?
Would
it have helped Corb in his quest to see harmony in design ?
Do
we have a question of our time , if I say I don’t love you ,
would you rather I tell you in text or a letter ?
So
,would you design the distance between the columns by radar or your
imagination and a desire for harmony ?
So
is distance for an architect always a matter of function and beauty
at the same time ?
Not
that this banal question or matters of proportion and thus distance
are usually a topic of debate in schools of architecture .. to be
discussed ?
Sorry
Corb , we don’t like Modular Man, where is Modular Woman or Modular
LGBT We prefer the management vocabulary of Graphic Standards and
Parker Morris to tell us our distances , economic distances ,
numbers, cost of distances and space usage and all their progeny in
apps and computer programmes ….not feelings that might say , this
is about the right size , height , length and width/
But
couched in the language of measurement . of time and space .
Institutionalised
Managed
distance regulations , the necessity for a guarantee ?
Or
?
It
is common for distance to be assumed as numbers ,but the estimation
of distance is more romantic in its imprecision , more demanding .
It
was 1951 , Hoagy Carmichael was writing ‘My resistance is Low’
and Corb had started work on Chandigarh , both poets but in
different media but sharing a word , distance and its journey to the
heart .
I
need to measure this distance Hoagy . How ?
Is
there an app or a rangefinder other than a smile or tears or both at
the same time Today Hoagy you would be a distance of 27 jet hours
from Corbs creation ,or 11,500 km .
Do
these distance numbers tell you anything about his concrete poem
or your lyrics Hoagy? .. But you were both obsessed by distance in
your own ways , .. “The Nearness of you “ Hoagy thought that
Keith Richards made the best version of this song , I wonder what
Corb would have made of nearness as an architectural dimension or
distance ?
Saturday, 16 May 2020
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Sunday, 10 May 2020
AALAWuN swan report
LAWuNline didMark[goto]Bavaria? {research info}
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Swan
Report 05-20
Air
channel IU
Notes
from the meeting of 7th
May 20
Apologies
for absence absent .
Item
1
SHELTER
Sidney
Opera House/
Watching
the elegance of the swans in the lower pond on the Heath gave rise
to pondering on Sydney Opera House. Utzon’s early sketches show
him to be influenced by nature and in particular birds
It
was agreed that the Heath Swan is a floating flying opera house .
(consider
maybe swan outside but its feathers and inspiration denied for its
interior , one can only imagine what might have been? )
Item
2
EATING
people
who can own and eat swans
the
ownership of swans in the Thames is shared equally among the Crown,
the Vintners'
Company and
the Dyers'
Company.
The monarch is the only person allowed to eat Swans .
Swanupping
, Swan census (see Stanley Spencer)
Item3
SHITTING
Automata,
NeuSchwanstein/
As
a beautiful creature the swan as a super-duck cannot escape its
destiny in the place of architectural theory as a recollection of
Venturi’s duck ..
Mimetic
architecture ? ( what happened to that ?)
Was
agreed that Swan+ Duck + Vaucansons shitting duck, or more politely
Canard Digerateur offers a technically inspired architectural
journey with a yearning by some for kinetic time based forms in a
constant state of evolution , rather than forms that only mimic this
is idea . Did Venturi ever go to Bavaria hard to believe he didn’t
For
example on every floor of the castle there were toilets with
automatic flushing system, a well serviced fantasy ? To
be discussed .
Item4
TRANSPORT
Ride
a white swan T.Rex
Committee
agreed that the lyrics to this song are meaningless but the swan
and the song are beautiful .. however it was noted that Lohengrin,
a character in German Arthurian literature. a knight of the Holy
Grail went in a boat pulled by swans to
rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity. Research Question did
Marc go to Bavaria ? Advise TFL of Heath Swans as zero carbon
transport solution?
Item5
Gender
issues ;
The
exploitation of the swan by artists ,Rubens’s ‘Leda and the
Swan’ declared inappropriate material for channel media studies.
Item6
AOB
Poor
Swan to be so used , misused by monarchs , engineers , architects ,
poets , ballet dancers ,and in mythology called "Eala"
in Scots Gaelic, "Eala" in Irish, "Alarch" in
Welsh, "Alarc’h" in Breton, "Olla" in Manx and
"Alargh" Cornish, just to mention a few
no
wonder you can have such a bad temper , but nevertheless you are
lucky .. it is illegal to kill you in many parts of the planet .
7.
App. for next meeting tbc
Jet Greene - drawing
*additional paperwork: Mike Davies
Department of Swansport
Swanassesment 94-3.
Collision Danger Alert.
The DES points out that although virtually all movement by
Swansport is now automated- in the now relatively small percentage of
trips undertaken under manual guidance, considerable risk still exists.
SSP-1a Collision Risk
1 The DES has underlined that risk of collision exists when driving Swansport vehicles in urban areas under visual guidance.
2
There is a risk of impact with street furniture - and specifically with any form of vertical urban street furniture.
3
In order to mitigate the risk of collision, the Department of
Swansport, TFL and SFL - Swansport for London stresses thst Rule 9a of
the Swansport code must be followed when driving urbaswansport in
visual mode.
Rule 9a states specifically that the head and thorax swinging
movement prescribed in the Swanway Code must be constantly applied when
swanning - causing the drivers head to be moved laterally from side to
side, allowing the driver to observe
the full width of the Swanway ahead.
This procedure is essential when swanning - as the neck of the
Swanickle being driven, being vertical, can obscure any vertical street
furniture - ie lamp post, telegraph pole, signage or other street
furniture.
The head and thorax movement of the drivers body proscribed under
Rule 9a, ensures that any blind spot hidden by the swan neck in front of
the driver is visually scanned and any hidden vertical object
recognised and avoided.
It should be noted that in Springtime Swanicles grow new feathers
and in consequence, their necks may become an even greater visual
obstruction in front of drivers than in other seasons.
The Department of Swansport remind all those Swanning around that the manual driving of Swanicles has inherent risks.
SwAlert 57
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