flip-flop house

… to locate the promising marginal text, to disclose the undecidable moment, to pry it loose with the positive lever of the signifier, to reverse the resident hierarchy, only to displace it; to dismantle in order to reconstitute what is always already inscribed. 

— Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak, “Translators Preface for Of Grammatology”

drawing examples...

here are some more drawing examples...

(this one here is from my friend, heather woofter's studio at washington university in st. louis)

how to draw a croissant...

There is a pleasure in drawing, in letting the hand, like an abstract instrument, gather on the page what the eye is selecting. There is a secret correspondence between the final point of the gaze and the point of the pen on the sheet of paper … It is easy to confuse these marks with writing.
- Enric Miralles

more here...
 

today, too, i experienced something...

that i am hoping to understand in a few days...

long... thin...

how thin can you get? can you fit it between two buildings?

here is an example in brazil...

maybe its just as thin as this? with its programs shown on as voids on the exterior...

at the edge of the site/city?

maybe its a wall house? like the ones that john hedjuk designed based on corbusian principles?

or, a casa chorizo like in argentina?

its also interesting to see what they look like from above

florence's ponte vecchio

rio's pedregulho

or gavea...

and, of course, kaspe's humanities building 300m long...!

rome's corviale

exercises in style

raymond queneau's retelling of the same simple story... an exercise in seeing the possibilities of systems, styles, and forms... 

download part of it here...

book making...

these examples can be used as signatures for a larger/longer book...

small paper book

folded paper book

drawing and writing...

simon unwin's notebooks...

click here for download page

clara nubiola (and the "rutas inciertas")...

click here for more

and the choices were...

Mies van der Rohe, Hubbe House project (1933)

Adolf Loos, Josephine Baker House project (1928)

Le Corbusier, Curutchet House (1952)

Lina Bo Bardi, Glass House (1951)

Paolo Mendes da Rocha, Mendes da Rocha House (1960)

Josep Sostres, Moratiel House [MMI] (1955-57)

Smiljan Radic, Casa Pite (2003-2005)

Juan O’Gorman, Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Studio (1932)

 

Solano Benítez, Casa Abu & Font (2005-2006)