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1.1 Great architecture gains its suprafunctional language when it works directly
from its purposes,
effectively announcing them mimetically as the work's content. H. B. Scharoun's
Philharmonic Hall
in Berlin is beautiful because, in order to create the ideal spatial conditions for
orchestral music,
it assimilates itself to these conditions rather than borrowing from them. By
expressing its purpose
through the building, it transcends mere purposiveness though, incidentally, this
transition is never
guaranteed to purposive forms. Theodor W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, 1961-69.
http://istifhane.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/aesthetictheory.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion
2.1 Building the Uncanny: Gregor Schneider�s �Haus U R� and �21 Beach Cells�
http://socks-studio.com/2014/02/28/building-the-uncanny-gregor-schneiders-haus-u-r-
and-21-beach-cells/
2.2 http://socks-studio.com/2012/07/18/urban-fictions-by-richard-rowland/
4. http://margaretmorton.com/artist/books.html
http://www.publicculture.org/articles/view/24/3/the-crystal-cathedral-architecture-
for-mediated-congregation
http://www.smallatlarge.com/2013/07/green-machine-concept-1/
Philip Johnson and John Burgee, The Crystal Cathedral structure under construction,
Los Angeles, 1980.
http://www.archdaily.com/445618/ad-classics-the-crystal-cathedral-philip-johnson/
8. Fotos de Mall: �they don�t know it, but they are doing it�
Later in the book, within a chapter entitled The Labyrinth and the Pyramid, Hollier
basing his vision
of architecture on Bataille's writings establishes that:
�The labyrinth, therefore, is not an object, not a referent. It does not have a
transcendence that would
permit one to explore it. Wanting to explore the labyrinth only confirms this
further: there is no getting
around it. But neither the category of subjectivity nor the category of objectivity
can exist in this
space, which, having made them unsound, nevertheless has no replacement to offer.
Distance like proximity,
separation like adhesion remain undecidable there. In this sense one is never
either inside or outside the
labyrinth � a space (perhaps that is already too much to say) that would be
constituted by none other than
this very anxiety, which is however, incurably undecidable: am I inside or outside?
�