since museums like the moma are closed for corona, i've decided to return to great exhibits i've seen this year. i had an idea of weaving bowie and U2 music producer brian eno's oblique strategies cards with fujimoto's conceptual model ideas. even though eno specializes with music and fujimoto focuses on architecture, they both try to playfully yet seriously challenge conventional notions to create something new.
Brian Eno, developed a deck of cards to provide inspiration to artists who were either stuck or searching for new directions for their work. Each card contains a suggestion, aphorism or remark which can be used to break a deadlock or dilemma situation. when Eno collaborated with David Bowie they used the cards during the making of the now famous set of albums known as the Berlin trilogy. oblique strategy card quotes are written in orange below.
"Fujimoto used unexpected materials to construct 72 miniature architectural models. In them, the architect seeks “a different understanding of nature,” considering the binder clips on our desks, or a stray ping-pong ball, or a sponge by the sink, as significant as the buildings we encounter day to day. Both the play with scale and the surprising appropriation of everyday objects create surreal situations and generate new meanings. Coupled with short aphorisms, Fujimoto’s models invite us to imagine ourselves building and occupying our own complex architectures."
a myriad of voids layered upon one smaller creating a density of voids
courage
what mistakes did you make last time
you are an engineer
consider different fading systems
remove ambiguities and convert to specifics
we should have a high rise building like this
don't break the silence
you can only make one dot at a time
discover the recipes you are wiring and abandon them
just carry on
cascades
(organic) machinery
an artificial thing that imitates green might as well open the door to a new possibility of green
use fewer notes
what would your closest friend do
repetition is a form of change
distorting time
give way to your worst impulse
make a blank valuable by putting it in an exquisite frame
the inconsistency principle
it should be possible to make architecture like hills. to be more specific. layering hills is architecture.
what wouldn't you do
is it finished?
decorate, decorate
put in earplugs
give the game away
trust in the you of now
people live in nooks and crannies
balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle
fill every beat with something
do nothing for as long as possible
discard an axiom
listen to the quiet voice
closing and opening. separating and connecting
use and acceptable color
ask your body
humanize something free of error
use filters
between coincidence and inevitability
overly resist change
emphasize the flaws
accept advice
looking for an architectural space in a gap we don't usually pay attention to
consult other sources
do the words need changing
mute and continue
look at the order in which you do things
it is quite possible (after all)
go outside. shut the door
if you think about it. this form has been a friend of architecture for thousands of years.
tidy up
closed yet open. individuality and continuity.
you don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas
make a sudden destructive unpredictable action; incorporate
can we see the future of architecture through this mesh? while closing separating and changing like a terrain it is still one surface.
do nothing for as long as possible
bridges build burn
water
a house like bookshelves or bookshelves like a house?
how would you have done it?
honor they error as a hidden intention
emphasize differences
only on element of each kin
the coexistence of simplicity and complexity
don't be frightened to display your talents
use unqualified people
breathe more deeply
architecture is something that always surrounds realms and then opens them.the duality has become a clearly apparent form. coincidentally.
don't be afraid of things because they're easy to do
is there something missing?
the desire to sleep in a bed like this. the desire to live in a house like this. the desire to live in a city like this.
remember those quiet evenings
the richness in architecture is the real world application of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
take a break
the tape is not the music
is this a representation of structure, activity or leisure?
short circuit
imagine the music is a moving chain or caterpillar
use an old idea
is this part of a wall, a house, a city or the earth itself?
intentions - credibility of, nobility of, humility of
destroy -nothing - the most important
imagine the music as a set of disconnected events
change nothing and continue with immaculate consistency
geometry and disorder. simplicity and complexity. clarity and incomprehensibility.
imagine the piece as a set of disconnected events
what are you really thinking about just now? incorporate
children's voices
assemble some of the instruments in a group and treat the group
here is the flow and coincidental nature of strength and a flickering light. thus here is a world itself.
feedback recordings into an acoustic situation
shut the door and listen from outside
towards the insignificant
complex or simple?
is the tuning appropriate?
simple a matter of work
semi-transparent architecture is something that would probably remain as a dream i wonder when it would be realized?
emphasize repetitions
architecture encompasses nothing. it creates the rise and fall of place.
reverse
abandon normal instrument
different heights are in fact different worlds. a new set of relationships between people.
cluster analysis
work at different speed
do something boring
beyond the myriad of non-architecture related things present how architecture comes into sight. these things are pulling architecture towards this side.
accretion
add people to work against their better judgement
disconnect from desire
take away the elements in order of apparent non-importance
a cave turned into architecture or an ashtray.
infinitesimal gradations
make an exhaustive list of everything you might do and do the last thing on the list
change instrument roles
into the impossible
i like spirals
are their sections? consider transitions
remove specifics and convert to ambiguities
turn it upside down
go slowly all the way round the outside
a line has two sides
covered space is one of the origins of architecture.
remove specifics and convert to ambiguities
think of the radio
don't be afraid of cliches
allow and easement
what is the reality of the situation
simple subtraction
we should have a highrise building like this.
look at a very small object, look at its center
not building a wall but making a brick
revaluation
disciplines self-indulgence
the important thing is the thing most easily forgotten
always first steps
idiot glee
question the heroic approach
be extravagant
always give yourself credit for having more than personality
state the problem in words as clearly as possible
faced with a choice, do both
tape your mouth
flows create space. inside becomes outside. outside becomes inside.
twist the spine
get you neck massaged
lowest common denominator check - single beat, single note, single riff
do the washing up
listen in total darkness or in a very large room, very quietly
the forest is always for me the archetype of architecture.
convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element
would anybody want it
spectrum analysis
retrace your steps
go to an extreme, move back to a comfortable place
once the search is in progress, something will be found
only a part, not the whole
architecture is a wrestle with entropy.
from nothing to more than nothing
be less critical more often
don't stress one thing more than another
do we need holes?
look closely at the most embarrassing details and amplify them.
define an area as safe and use it as an anchor
mechanicalize something idiosynchrotic
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