Gorretti: Lecture Notes and Thoughts

Encoding Decoding:

Forms and levels of communication.
- Is communication instinctual or is it learned? Is there such thing as primal communication?

Language and emotion – do you need to understand the emotion that is encoded in the language in order to decode the message?

Are we differentiating between body language and verbal language? What kind of language are we addressing if there are in fact categories of language?

There is a complexity to communication including:

Senses
Perceptions
Time

How does this apply to architecture?

All of our intentions must be encoded into the work… typically this is constructed into the work. It is manifested/staged through ritual and landscape perceptions. THIS IS THE NORM – why?

Cook, eisenmen – all wrote for years before building. They were building their “language” so people could decode their architecture.

If there is something called primal communication than…

We have to access the cultured memory, when we do that the fashioning is no longer important

Our human scale is more important than our cultural fabrication. Therefore there is no difference between US born (modern) child than Ethiopia born (villager) child because the greater issue is that we’re of the human culture.

Hot and cold media:

Hot media is something that doesn’t leave anything to the imagination and cold media is engaging.

Mediation and intermediary:

Intermediary – is complete transparency – medium is non existent

Mediation –
CNN packaging their news broadcast (their production) – this package is the recoding of the message (i.e. war on Iraq)

Flow and stoppage is integral to each other – they act as edges to each other.





Ecstasy of Communication:

Society is changing from cash owed to cash flow

In the past it was about owning a car but in contemporary time its more important how you drive the car.

Comment:
The ownership is placed on the skill over the mechanism – the virtual gamer, google, wikipedia – it’s about owning the machine through the skill.

Idea:

Time based architecture -?????

Surface/boundary

Private/public

Wedding ring –

Ring is nothing but the ceremony surrounding the ring is by far more significant (event overriding object)

Obect is the value

historical value is more important that then object (double check)

pure event

rings are everywhere – potentiality of ring is letent in the world

but the right given to you from a friend is more valuable

value constructed

If we want to create value (in arch) you have to activate eventful eventful engagement.

screen and mirror – its about how we engage it that determines which on eit is

what is obscenity in architecture? what is obscenity?

jerry springer, jackass, howard stern and reality shows questions what is public and what is private? – the more secretive the more successful

amsterdam – drunkeness and prostitution are public which drops the value

economic theory – when scarity is present then value goes up and vis versa

public ownership – does it exist?

its not what you own that determines if its public or private, its how you claim certain things.

its situational logic not transendental logic –

public space – “non private space” does “true” public space exist – did they ever exist?

malls are NOT public they are private – my opinion

Jae – does ownership matter?

MTA – performers are not allowed to set up shop in the tunnels - they have to audition and get a permit to do so – as well as street vendors. all these actions take place in the public realm therefore does this governing rule take away the “public”? elaborate

true sense of private is disconnection





Over Exposed City:

Boundary and surface becomes machine – the mechanism. It is the active negotiator of private/public

Surface is the first contact point between two agencies.

Arabic embassy (France)
Interior façade is composed out of camera lenses – opens and closes with the sun path. These lenses become the negotiator.

Boundary = a means of control (i.e. room) – LOOS – room vs. round (the room condition)

Obscenity – trivialize the subject in order to (de-value)?

Airport objective – maintain the flow

Lag time? – Time that exists between flights – the architecture that we build for airports supports lag time

Water, rail, road – real life interception
Air – the virtual

Maya: where are we going?





In the Place of the Public:

Notion of travel becomes very twisted

Hockey game

You know more about the hockey game if you watch it on TV than if you were in the arena. – Because of views, replays etc.

Therefore you’re more there than the people that have been there.

The Internet becomes a tool for this idea – you’re more there than those who have been there.

Is a depression in the classical sense? Distance (old) modern (contemporary)

The notion of here and there may have been invalidated. Its about why and how we’re here or there.

Experience in rapid secession – compare to slow movement (not to be discussed in black or white)

Slow movement – you get the “whole” experience/adventure