BLDG BLOG (1/07)
speakers/presenters:
Matthew Coolidge (founder and director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation):
- end of Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana, end of America
- liminal space
- engineered space (levees)
- disappearing due to sediment loss and hurricanes
- people who still live there
- even Mark Twain rarely mentioned this forgotten space
Mary-Ann Ray (author of Pamphlet Architecture 20: Seven Partly Underground Rooms and Buildings for Water, Ice, and Midgets):
- underground spaces
- double helix well (Pozzo di San Patrizio)
- pieced-together photography trying to convey feeling of space
Robert Sumrell (co-founder of Architecture Urbanism Design Collaborative):
- book Blue Monday: Stories of Absurd Realities and Natural Philosophies
- woman who married the Berlin Wall
- “Temporal Displacement”
- “There is nowhere to defect to: without the Wall, we must all face our own complicity in the system.”
Christine Wertheim (co-founder, curator for The Institute for Figuring):
- logic; actual space in brain
- quadratic space in brain because civilization began playing with 4-sided things (just a theory)
Margaret Wertheim (co-founder, curator for The Institute for Figuring):
- crocheted hyperbolic spaces
- Barrier Reef