the following text are quotes from the upcoming publication corporealities

“.... Peter Eisenman took up practice for good and left cardboard architecture largely behind. Frank Gehry found opportunities to apply his ideas not just to his own house but to buildings for other clients. Philip Johnson finally who as we say in German: “hears the grass grow”, veered away at times from his commercial practice....

 ....Again there are a number of artists who can help architects from doing many stupid mistakes....

....as an architect you might invent such a solution, you might think that is also the safest way to bridge these 30 centimetres but then it would be very expensive but as an artist you can get subsidy suppressions for you art work....

....Finally expelled from the dim corridors of education and grinding practice he came face to face with buildings he barely knew from textbook illustrations....

 ....I must confess that I must improvise a little bit, because the whole subject of Corporealities has something to do with science but it has also something to do with hocus-pocus....

....Remember the famous distinction, the famous response of Marcel Duchamp about the difference between sculpture and architecture? ”One has plumbing”....

....The endless reflection of the video screens would make it impossible to know what was the architecture, what was the event?....

 ....point was about event, action, line was about movement, surfaces was about the large spaces in which every-thing would take place. These fragmented vectors of movement become the way the architecture is constructed....

....There is a nice one-liner which is written on a huge billboard on Time Square; “If you loose your mind, it is always good you have a nice body to fall back on”.... 

....Gehry remarks ‘a propo’ of nothing; “Palladio faced the fork in a road and he took the wrong turn”. “What did he do wrong?”, I wondered and to clear up my puzzlement Frank adds: “he should have recognised there is chaos, he should have gone ahead and done what Borromini did later and he would have been a pioneer”....

....They are “that which they are not.” As art works they are not-landscape, although inherently connected to the natural sites in which they are inserted....

 ....The land is being undoubtedly transformed, as much physically as symbolically. Every map is more than just the representation of a physical reality, for it is a bearer of intention always ideologically marked....

....The sports club, which had the name ASK and I always forgot to ask these sports people what does ASK mean? Then I thought it could mean “Arnold Schwartzenegger Körperkultur” so this is the Arnold Schwartzenegger Körperkultur Statue. Then the sports people got very angry about this, because they said: “first our ASK means Arbeiter Sports Klub and it has nothing to do with Arnold Schwartzenegger. Second our Arbeiter sports people don’t use doping....

....“little boxes, little boxes, little boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.”....

....The strip is the new shopping street of the city. The cheap and mundane language of the strip, the ugly and ordinary, pervades public buildings as well. making them in Venturi’s words “all most all right.”....

 ....Shopping malls are the new centres of public life. They are separated from their surroundings, conceived as well protected islands within dispersed urban conditions....

....The primacy of perception is expressed by replacing the cognito ergo sum, by: ‘I move in the space, therefore I am’....

....I like conflict with Calvinistic and the Catholic culture and my architecture is connected to this tension....

....At this line we already had to many parking places and you should not make to many parking places because people hate that in this area because on every parking place there will eventually be a car and they hate cars....

....In Barcelona you where comparing it with volcanic energy, the lava became first building and then the architect looks at it with his geometrical glasses and something more sharp comes out....

....The idea of solidity is also connected to the idea of grave, of eternity, of death, and my architecture wants to be connected to life....

....With a touch of foolery Frank wore a costume that made him appear like one of those French figures done up in ‘balliuts’ columns, capitals and shafts, a sort of mad cap mannequin of classical architecture....

....Then Another quality a snowman has which he did not mention is that the snowman is very popular, it is very symbolic and collectively readable, even more important these days, it doesn't cost any money, and what is most advantageous it melts away with spring....

 ....trees are now being used as vicious ideological weapons and quite often there are not there where they should be, but they are being planted quite often in order to make sure something else does not hap-pen. So basically our notion of dealing with the city has become so defensive that in order to make sure there is no car to be parked there....

....gay people used to meet in the park. But then the problem was that in these parks were also three boys who were 16, 17 years old who beat the gay people. Now the gay-parking place was a German invention based on the idea that boys of 16, 17 years old don't have a car....

....Buildings become people, before people there were other creatures Franky Peter Toronto explained and among the ladder it was the fish he liked best....

....If you look in a book about history you find the name of Adolf Hitler, if you look in the city of Berlin, Adolf Hitler is not present. So you should, we as urbanists and as architects, should try to develop ways, over art or over architecture, to make the cities as which, as books on history are....”’
 
 

Curator:
Jos Bosman

Organisation:
Bouke Albada
John van de Water

Special thanks to:
Jelte Boeïnga
Djacco van den Bosch
Petra Mesken

This series was organised by DBSG Stylos together with the NAi. A publication about the bodily topic is in preparation. Videos about the lectures are available a the Faculty of Architecture at the Technical University of Delft.