Thoughts Out Of Season
Friday, August 22, 2014
Carcosa, Aldebaran, the Hyades, Hastur, and Other Terms from Chamber's The King In Yellow
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Aldebaran (orange star, top left) amongst the Hyades and the Pleiades (blue cluster, right) The first time I learned of Robert W. Cham...
Friday, August 15, 2014
Overturning Architecture: Douglas Darden's Frontispiece, Lequeu, Duchamp, Piranesi, and Melville
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Frontispiece to Douglas Darden's Condemned Building About four years ago I first introduced to Douglas Darden's "Oxygen ...
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Monday, August 11, 2014
The Vitruvian Man: Erections
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Cesare Cesariano's Vitruvian Man from his translation of Vitruvius' De Architectura Everyone is familiar with da Vinci's...
Monday, August 4, 2014
A Change of Heart: The Candor of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
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Anyone who has ever beheld a copy of De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres ( The Three Books of Occult Philosophy ) by Heinrich Cornelius A...
Saturday, August 2, 2014
The Orders of Architecture: Race and Politics
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Any student of Classical architecture or simply someone who has perused Vitruvius is familiar with the anthropomorphic associations of ...
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