In Städsbørough to present a paper on The Master’s influence upon their practice, two workers attempt to make multiple rendezvous throughout the week from 27 Apr to 03 May 2009. Both newbies in the city and armed with incomplete and nonobjective maps, the workers schedule meetings at what would be a city’s archetypal points of interest:
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bmw sales and event center, munich, germany. coop himmelblau

you want me to feed you something, well i am not going to feed you anything, i am going to make a mess, you can have back what you have given me, what i have turned it into, let this misshapen dream be a cog in this mess you have built around me, your opaque city, i have had to get lost in it, be threatened by it, alienated, ‘warmed’ by beige and grey, and draw something on every opaque surface, behind which you conceal your grand narrative, which even you do not understand, i dont propose to understand what i do either, but i propose that it is not a palliation, that i will not give you something that you can swallow, or photograph, or quip, or inhabit, lean against, sell, market, or hide behind, because i will let cats vomit on it, let my work stain it, i will fall asleep on it, i will keep it in my back pocket until it falls to blank pieces, then i will let you pick them up and put them back together, i wont pretend to understand, because i know that you dont, and i wont pretend that you will make it yours, or that you would even think that it was your right to give it your livelihood, as long as you dont expect me to ignore what you have constructed around me.

…and if i have to watch one more little bird die on the sidewalk with its neck broken while people gawk and make light of it, i will burn your world to cinders.

i have been preparing a base drawing that deals with a couple of issues: read more…

concrete island
jg ballard

a fictional crusoesque text set in a cavernous median at the intersection of several freeways. this is much less sensational than crash but is certainly a more clear comment on the city-dweller’s relationship with the urban landscape. also of note is the richness of the abject microcosms that the city shits out.

acquire this text: powells.com

i am somewhat skeptical of this bundling of systems. it makes me nervous that we might be psychologically cutting out the notion of independence that makes homeownership such a strong force. i know these would still be individual dwellings but i feel that the sharing of architectural elements, whether they be roof, wall, or floor, is (as you and i have experienced) a quite emasculating phenomenon. i think as a concept, which is what i understand your images to be, it could be useful to think of how shared systems can minimize land usage, but i think maybe those systems could be more latent, ie. driveway/garage, septic field, waste disposal… it just makes me nervous to see anything resembling a duplex because the idea of habitat for humanity seems to be founded on the single family home, not getting people into a ‘nicer’ multifamily housing situation.