ARCH&UD 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Roland Barthes, Birds Eye
21 Oct 2018
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Sigfried Griedon, “Experimental Architecture”
- Exhibitions are light buildings, quickly assembled and quickly disassembled: laboratories
for industrial building
- History of exhibitions becomes history of iron construction
- First exhibition dealt with articles for everday use. Second one was only perfectly
executed objects
- The first Industrial Exhibition of All Nations took place in London in 1851
Roland Barthes “The Eiffel Tower:
- Tower must be an utterly useless monument?
- We visit the Eifell in order to participate in a dream
- Paranomic combined with birds eye makes you recreate your view of the map because
of your memory
- One can feel cut off from the world but also the owner of the world
Amy Slaton “Style/Type/Standard: The Production of Technological Resemblance”
Document Summary
Exhibitions are light buildings, quickly assembled and quickly disassembled: laboratories for industrial building. History of exhibitions becomes history of iron construction. First exhibition dealt with articles for everday use. The first industrial exhibition of all nations took place in london in 1851. We visit the eifell in order to participate in a dream. Paranomic combined with birds eye makes you recreate your view of the map because of your memory. One can feel cut off from the world but also the owner of the world.
