Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees. Paul Valery
As artists, the one true inquiry of art as a pure subject is an inquiry of our potential to know the world around us and our actively being in it, with a particular emphasis on the aesthetic. This world is not just somehow given to us whole. We perceive, we shape the world, and as artists we discover and give value to our human potential to "see" the infinite richness (beauty?) in everything, creating an extended aesthetic reality. Robert Irwin
The entire secret of designing is the conscious insertion of a building into the community of what exists. Heinz Wetzel
Friday, August 3, 2007
Context and Phenomenology
If you want to productivly waste some time, check the entries "leaves" and "rock" by Jean Nouvel and "Sails" by Steven Holl on eikongraphia (link to the right).
I graduated from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany where I also taught full time for three years in the department of Urban Design and Planning. Subsequent studies at MIT in the SMArchS program (Architecture and Urbanism) brought me to the United States in 1999. I currently work for Payette (Boston) where along with the project work I am involved in running a series of office internal design showings.
In addition to my studies and work in architecture, I have studied organ performance at the National-Regional Conservatory in Strasbourg, France, took numerous master classes, and was organist and choir director at the Evangelical Johannis Church in Karlsruhe for six years. Since 2001 I have taught at the BAC, including a series of workshops that dealt with the phenomenological correspondences between architecture and music. I currently live in Providence, Rhode Island with my wife, a visual artist, a son and our cat
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