Earthships seem terribly interesting!
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x_losEarthships!
From an environmental perspective and, actually, from an aesthetic one. I've always been fascinated by factory design: from the hulking Victorian structures that are imitative of non-industrial institutional structures (they look like they might be workhouses, but for the random smoke-funnels--Piranesi's Carceri remind me of the mein) to the almost organic-seeming lines of modern factories, they're the only building category that can be said to be aesthetically determined more by direct functionality than by somewhat static architectural tradition. But an Earthship has similar correspondence between form and function, which produces a fresh, bewildering aspect which I really like.
Re: the tradition thing: Architecture can be really, really low-risk: post-lintel still works, even though we've got technological resources that should have allowed us to entirely rethink the domus, we really haven't (though Habitat 67 seems to me to be an amazing play on the actual architectural ideas of the Roman domus--I got a fun paper out of that for that terrible Italian Urbanism course, though I'm not sure it quite addressed the prompt). The permanence of structure provides continuity like a long-reigning monarch might, and so architecture resists dynamism through the force of its material culture. Thus there are more standard regency palaces than wildly innovative Royal Pavilions--even /with/ money, people tend not to venture too terribly far afield.
I think--mind, I've not had a proper course in this since being Humanities TA (*eyeroll* Oh, Harlan) in senior year of HS.
College ending aside, I deeply regret that I haven't had time to study everything I'd like to. I double majored and toyed with two minors only to drop them, but I never got to do much work in art history, architecture, polisci or physics. And that's really, terribly lame. I wonder if after college I'll ever get to. I feel like I haven't yet even nearly read everything I want to in English or history. I'm only 22, and there's still not enough time.
Emo Erin is Emo. I guess end of uni blues /have/ found me, despite my bitching about Danny's sudden premature terror of mortality.
EDIT: PFFFT. Oh Mood. You make everything better. I've forgotten what you look like until I select you, and then you're lolarious.
EDIT DOS: Patch and I finally founded the fb group "I'd convert to Judaism to up my chances of getting on "Cash Cab"." Because if 2% of the US population is Jewish, 80% of the population of Cash Cab is. I don't even have to convert. See you on Cash Cab, suckas.
From an environmental perspective and, actually, from an aesthetic one. I've always been fascinated by factory design: from the hulking Victorian structures that are imitative of non-industrial institutional structures (they look like they might be workhouses, but for the random smoke-funnels--Piranesi's Carceri remind me of the mein) to the almost organic-seeming lines of modern factories, they're the only building category that can be said to be aesthetically determined more by direct functionality than by somewhat static architectural tradition. But an Earthship has similar correspondence between form and function, which produces a fresh, bewildering aspect which I really like.
Re: the tradition thing: Architecture can be really, really low-risk: post-lintel still works, even though we've got technological resources that should have allowed us to entirely rethink the domus, we really haven't (though Habitat 67 seems to me to be an amazing play on the actual architectural ideas of the Roman domus--I got a fun paper out of that for that terrible Italian Urbanism course, though I'm not sure it quite addressed the prompt). The permanence of structure provides continuity like a long-reigning monarch might, and so architecture resists dynamism through the force of its material culture. Thus there are more standard regency palaces than wildly innovative Royal Pavilions--even /with/ money, people tend not to venture too terribly far afield.
I think--mind, I've not had a proper course in this since being Humanities TA (*eyeroll* Oh, Harlan) in senior year of HS.
College ending aside, I deeply regret that I haven't had time to study everything I'd like to. I double majored and toyed with two minors only to drop them, but I never got to do much work in art history, architecture, polisci or physics. And that's really, terribly lame. I wonder if after college I'll ever get to. I feel like I haven't yet even nearly read everything I want to in English or history. I'm only 22, and there's still not enough time.
Emo Erin is Emo. I guess end of uni blues /have/ found me, despite my bitching about Danny's sudden premature terror of mortality.
EDIT: PFFFT. Oh Mood. You make everything better. I've forgotten what you look like until I select you, and then you're lolarious.
EDIT DOS: Patch and I finally founded the fb group "I'd convert to Judaism to up my chances of getting on "Cash Cab"." Because if 2% of the US population is Jewish, 80% of the population of Cash Cab is. I don't even have to convert. See you on Cash Cab, suckas.
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Date: 2008-05-03 06:53 am (UTC)I dunno, I don't see why you have to be in college to study all this stuff -- it's more structure, sure, but I'd rather not have this totally artificial form of information acquisition imposed on me if my goal is to actually learn about something interesting as opposed to the concrete goal of getting a degree/job/wtfever.
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Date: 2008-05-03 07:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-03 09:22 pm (UTC)in all seriousness I hate how the educational institution seems to instill this idea that learning is hard/worthless/unable to happen outside of said institution. the primary goal of education should be to equip people with the skills they need to continue learning (about LOTS of different things, which is the other thing The Teacher Man fails at) outside of school. since very few people remain in school forever. for all its problems it's something I think k-12 is at least working on... post-secondary has yet to give a shit, tho. :(
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Date: 2008-05-03 09:32 pm (UTC)And yeah, I'd agree that it's a crap attitude to have in terms of instilling a life-long learning ethic in a technologically (and you know, otherwise) dynamic world that /requires/ you to learn continuously to stay marketable/ successfully keep up with things.
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