For “Insertions Into Ideological
Circuits,” you are to take as generative the very representations of the given
canonical building. Through cutting, collage, scale increase/decrease, weaving,
cross-pasting, etc., develop out of the existing plans of the given building a
new set of plans. The plans, from this, should be the generator of the
building’s new sectional and spatial conditions. Apply the same technique used
to develop the plans to generate the elevations (albeit mediated by the
findings in the sections), perspectives, etc. For these and other generative
drawings, feel free to use the vast representational arsenal of the architect
–not only from the given project but from his entire oeuvre; think of the
possibilities of creating a project based on the surrealist technique of the
“exquisite corpse.” Additionally,
keep in mind the relationship that the building has to the ground and its
landscape.
This new building form, in turn, will
be inserted –through the same techniques– into an equally charged historical
site through the next representational assignment. Lautremont’s famous
statement regarding the “fortuitous encounter of an umbrella and a sewing
machine on an operating table,” in other words, will be central for our
understanding.
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