unofficial blog for course ARCH243

Lehigh University
Art Architecture and Design
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Bethlehem, PA 18015

Mariah

Collage City

I based my diagram off of my original version by keeping the same formal elements but I integrated them into a completely random plan rather than the radial grid system I had before to emphasize the concept of bricolage and dissimilarity as they foster more curiosity and intrigue in a city. I chose the following 6 characteristics to demonstrate the core concepts of the collage city.

Balance vs Imbalance

Constrained vs Free edges

Disrupted Axis

Hierarchy of Disparate Forms

Implied Form and Negative Space

Object vs Texture

The three quotes that interested me the most were difficult to narrow down but I have chosen the following:

“The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.’ This, in the area of our concern, is the statement, otherwise uninteresting, which, in The Hedgehog and the Fox, Isaiah Berlin chose to gloss and to elaborate.» Taken figuratively but not pressed too far, what one is supposed to have here are the types of two psychological orientations and temperaments, the one, the hedgehog, concerned with the primacy of the single idea and the other, the fox, preoccupied with multiplicity of stimulus.”

“The grid is to be either all-encompassing-a practical impossibility, or it is to be delimited-and hence not neutral; and, therefore, what results from both ‘methodology’ and ‘systems’ (relative to the contexts of facts and space) can only be the reverse of what was intended-in the one case, process elevated to the level of icon and, in the other, the covert statement of a tendentious idea.”

“Suffused with generosity, they surrender to an abstract entity called ‘the people’; and, while talking of pluralism (another abstract entity which is usually honoured in the absence of any specific tolerance), they are unwilling to recognize how manifold ‘the people’ happens to be, and consequently, whatever ‘its’ will, how much in need of protection from each other its components happen to stand. To date, Vox populi takes care of no minorities; and, as for Whatever is is right (and isn’t just untutored choice splendid!), one can sometimes feel this to be no more than a sociological heat sink, an entirely monstrous conservative plot intended to draw off any possible ebullition of revolutionary steam.”

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