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FORMAL ANALYSIS (Peter Eisenman (Canonical Buildings (what is canonical…

- - - - Referntiality
        
        "Canon is intimately linked to and dependent on both the concept of close reading operative at a particular moment in time and on the specific works which at the time provoke such a close reading." (pg. 19) - Sybil
        
        "A canonical work is a hinge, a rupture, a premonition, in other words, of something that necessarily signals a change" (Eisenman 10). - Alexa Blanchet
        
        "...canon is a way of opening up a particular discourse to reading its own history as something other than narrative facts" (pg. 17) -Amber L.
      - Diagram
      - Criticality
    - - function
      - structure
      - type
  - - - rethinking modernist abstraction
    - - critique modernity through materiality / iconography
    - - changes in practice of close reading
- - - - Architects make drawings of buildings, not buildings
      - Has Transitive, Commutative properties
      - Bringing with me the conviction that architecture and the visual arts were closely allied, I was soon struck by what seemed at the time the peculiar disadvantage under which architects labour, never working directly with the object of their thought, always working at it through some intervening medium, almost always the drawing, while painters and sculptors, who might spend some time on preliminary sketches and maquettes, all ended up working on the thing itself which, naturally, absorbed most of their attention and effort (156).
        Yiwei Lyu
  - - - Allan
      - single author
      - building precedes drawing
      - lamp is light source (perpsectival)
    - - Schinkel
      - division of labor
      - drawing precedes building
        
        "It was the architect who was obliged to show the first drawing in a pre-architectural setting, because without drawing there would be no architecture, at least no classical architecture constructed on the lines of geometrical definition." (Evans 164)
        Yimin Hu
      - sun is light source (parallel)
        
        "The two kinds of lighting correspond to the two types of projection, based on divergent projectors, which has played a cricial part in painting through the development of perspective; and parallel projection, based on parallel projectors, which has played an equally crucial, though far less well-recognized role in architecture through the development of orthographic projection" (164)
        Emily Wood
  - - - oblique windows
      - getting "smushed'" or not getting "smushed"
      - indicate spatial reasoning
    - - differences - floor, roof, and the drawing.
      - clipping - geometric starting point is expendable
      - imagination and technique work together in the drawing.
      - drawing is given medium where potentialities may be brought into existence.
- - - - "But poetic influence need not make poets less original; as often it makes them more original, though not therefore necessarily better" (Page 7). Mika Nagar
- - - - Plan
        
        comparable volumes
        
        alternating spatial interval (vertical)
        
        .5 interval is introduced in garches
        
        tripartite structure (horizontal)
      - Elevation
        
        black is dominant
        
        Malcontenta
        
        Plan is predominant
        
        white is dominant
        
        Garches
        
        Elevation is predominant
      - Analysis
        
        Rules
        
        Numbers
      - Similar form, divergent histories