Mieke’s essay on gaston bachelard — the phenomenology of the imagination « luctor et emergo. Mieke from Ghent, Belgium sent me the following text after a brief discussion asking her to contribute a post for this blog: Luctor et Emergo.
To my surprise she dedicated it to me & for that I’ll always be grateful. In addition to writing this essay Meike also translated it from Dutch into English for this specific use. When I read through the text, I’m reminded of Heidegger’s famous insistence that truth is disclosure, uncovering, revealing—this is best referred to with his revival of the ancient Greek word aletheia (ἀλήθεια). Book Review: The Glass House. The Glass House by The National Trust for Historic Preservation Rizzoli, 2011 Hardcover, 80 pages In 1986 Philip Johnson donated his New Canaan, Connecticut estate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
It opened to the public in 2007, two years after the death of Johnson (at 98, just shy of his 99th birthday) and his companion David Whitney (who died six months later, at the age of 66). Referred to now in its entirety as The Glass House, the "campus" includes ten structures designed by Johnson and built between 1949 and 1995. This slim guide put out by Rizzoli, an update to the one published by Assouline in 2008, visually documents these and other parts of the property, which can be visited annually from May to November. At only 80 pages, the book is hardly an in-depth look at the duo and their estate, but it does a good job of giving some order to Johnson's six-decade exploration of architecture.
[The P.J. The Glass House. Site Spotlight: Brick House (1949) « The Philip Johnson Glass House Blog. Picture+2.png (973×648) Philip Johnson. Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an influential[1] American architect.
He is especially known for his postmodern work since the 1980s. In 1930, he founded the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 1978 he was awarded an American Institute of Architects Gold Medal and in 1979 the first Pritzker Architecture Prize.[2] He was a student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Johnson was gay, and has been called "the best-known openly gay architect in America. " In 1961, he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate member and became a full Academician in 1963. Johnson died in his sleep while at his Glass House retreat in 2005. Early life[edit]
Google Image Result for. The Farnsworth House, part 2 / from the hearth to the field. The underpinnings of “less is more” were laid out in Thoreau’s in 1854 (as thoroughly observed in Theodore M. Brown’s essay, “Thoreau’s Prophetic Architectural Program,” in , March, 1965). ‘s setting of the stage for a minimal, open, one-room house is uncanny. Thoreau’s grasp of man’s unconscious attitudes toward shelter and of the inherent drawbacks of shelter and possessions goes far toward explaining the lasting appeal and influence of the two glass houses built nearly a century later. ”We may imagine a time,” he wrote, “when, in the infancy of the human race, some enterprising mortal crept into a hollow in a rock for shelter.
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay out doors, even in wet and cold. It plays house . . . having an instinct for it. {*style:<i> </i>*} Comparing their one-room houses, Thoreau’s measured 15 by 10 feet; Johnson’s 56 by 32 feet; and Mies’s 56 feet by 28 feet, 8 inches (without the porch). Brick House Restoration. Ready for its Close-Up. Table of Contents and Excerpt, Welch, Philip Johnson & Texas. Gaston Bachelard Quotes (Author of The Poetics of Space) Is Philip Johnson's Glass House The Most Beautifully Designed House In The World? The architect Philip Johnson's Glass House is one of the most important icons of modern architecture.
For nearly five decades, Johnson and the art collector David Whitney lived in the 47-acre grounds in New Canaan, CT, sculpting the landscape and adding new buildings. In 2007, two years after both men had died, the site opened up to the public as a National Trust Historic Site. Skira Rizzoli has just published a new edition of "The Glass House" ($25), the definitive book about the estate. See below for images and stories from its remarkable grounds. Loading Slideshow. Search Results brick house « The Philip Johnson Glass House Blog. By Gwen North Reiss Updated April 16, 2012 It appeared this winter in the lower lite to the right of the main door—a four to five inch crack almost invisible to the eye, like “a hair in the glass” according to Brendan Tobin, Manager of Buildings and Grounds at the Glass House.
Tobin immediately scheduled a replacement. Saving Philip Johnson’s Brick House « The Philip Johnson Glass House Blog. Www.stevenconnor.com/secession/secession.pdf. Cont/docs/A.Portrait.and.a.Dream.Long.Version.pdf.