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    • ESSAYS
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  • STUDIO WORK
    • All Studio Projects
    • VII. AUSTIN MUSIC HALL
    • VI. Brixton Studio
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    • III. New Braunfels: Hydrology
    • II. Austin: AEGB Headquarters
    • I. Lampasas: "Graduation Wall"
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    • ALL CARPENTRY PROJECTS
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    • Front Entry, Seattle
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    • Bathroom Remodel
  • 35MM FILM
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    • North America - 35mm
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interesting architecture?

11/11/2018

 
If buildings need to be interesting, this presumes general boredom as an existing precondition. That is a problem for a number of reasons. Notwithstanding the larger cultural concern, this treats buildings like media, which is ... weird.
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The ethics of progress?

11/1/2018

 
The idea that culture progresses (toward) is problematic. I suspect this represents more of a desire to progress than anything else. This position probably underlies most technologic notions of society that prevail today, despite its rejection in postmodern intellectual circles decades ago. I suspect digital micro tech / machine learning / massive cloud data storage has rekindled the fire—?

If one rejects the idea of a telos, novelty becomes nothing more than an aberrance. In other words, what is new by no means marks a transition toward something better. It is simply a manifestation of otherness, and evidence of the creative will toward freedom. 

There is a sense, however, that history retroactively validates the trends which have prevailed. A led to B led to C; because C is, then A was good. This is only a valid ethical argument if one assumes the telos. 
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