Zimbaldone Diece

Why do we continue to build homes the same way today that we did in the 18th century? When every other building type has been updated, small homes continue to have the same properties that they did when the pilgrims built them

zibaldone 11 - basta cosi

Now, answer one of your colleagues' questions...150 words, image made not taken, due monday.

Zibaldone 10

What makes Architecture Art but Art not Architecture?

Zibaldone 10

What role does proportion play in contemporary architecture?

It cant be a coincidence that some of the more successful architecture, and one of the more successful albums both were some way related to the Vitruvian Man.

Peter Cataldo - Zibaldone 10

A lot of hip-hop music is based on sampling. Early DJ's would find a song's "break" (that funky part of a song that was a simple drum pattern and instrumental piece that focused more on the beat and rhythm of the song rather than the melody) and find ways to have it play longer so people could groove to it (this gave rise to break-dancing and rapping). Soon DJ's found ways to take sounds from multiple sources and put them together to create a new composition. This form of music was very progressive and had a lot of freedom...until it started making money. By this time lawyers of artists that were being sampled started suing these artists for copyright infringements. Since the mass media has been involved, most of the hip-hop music one hears today is not very progressive because it is so restricted.

Can Architecture be sampled? Can someone take elements of multiple buildings/projects and place them together in a cohesive way to create a new composition that would have never been thought of before? Or would it also be subject to lawsuits and copyright infringements? (I understand this discussion can be very long and has many directions that it could go. So, discussing this through text can be very difficult.)

Why do we feel the need to "frame" views?

Corey Gibbons - Zibaldone 10

What holds a building up?