* Kazys Varnelis couldn’t possibly better resume this series of collage drawings recently featured on Archive of Affinities:
“Chief among these is that, on the one hand, these plans demonstrate a forced relationship between unlike elements and, on the other, these plans lack any trace of rupture or artifacts of their collision. This is a paradoxical inversion of postmodern design, in which elements would be chosen for their contextual nature, but when collided would retain traces of their violent encounter while also announcing their inability to ever produced a whole.
In other words, what we see is atemporality at work, not a postmodern revival.”
From: varnelis.net
Update 2012/10/08: the author of the collages is in fact Andrew Kovacs, the same guy running Archive Of Affinities.
Plan Of Nine Circles
Plan For A 9 Square Grid
Plan For A Museum
Plan With Four Attachments
Plan For A Prison
Plan For A Building With A Courtyard
Plan For A Theater
Plan For Unwilling Symmetry
Plan For A House
Plan Of Two Halves
Plan For A Park
Plan For An Office Building
Plan For A Hotel
Plan For A Series Of Rooms
Plan For A Culture Palace
Plan For A Linear Building
Plan From Fat To Thin
Elevation For A Building In The Form Of A Cabinet Of Curiosities
Elevation For A Ziggurat
Elevation For A Hotel
Elevation For A Tower
Elevation For A Building In The Form Of A Display Case
shlomo gendler says
October 17, 2012 at 12:33 pmfatastic!!!!