sexta-feira, outubro 31, 2008

some interesting moments worth sharing

The discussion consisted mostly of Wigley's characteristic wizardry with words that seemed to completely baffle poor old Bob. He essentially asked the same question -- why did you write Complexity and Contradiction? -- a dozen times in a dozen different ways. The hope was to elicit some sort of polemical commitment to manifesto-writing and the activist potential of theorizing (to which I fully subscribe), but Venturi simply refused to cede Wigley any ground, insisting that the book grew out of his lectures for a theory class he was teaching at Princeton in the early 60's. I wondered if Wigley was actually talking less about Venturi and more about himself: if he was trying to posit a projective role for the writer in order to justify his own career as a non-practicing architect. Maybe that's getting a little too Wigley-psychoanalytic. Who knows. Anyway, the banter continued at length until Denise Scott-Brown, who, like the rest of us, could not take any more of the labyrinthine inquisition, finally decided to tell him what he wanted to hear. "Bob writes to figure out what he thinks," she said, explaining how the writing indeed came to inform their practice. Whether she was actually sincere, or whether she was just doing us all the favor of neutralizing the debate, I'll never know. But her brief words made me want more.

Bob Venturi, DSB e... e... o "enorme" Mark Wigley, juntos e ao vivo?
Pagava para ver...

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anónimo said...

Am,
mas pagava para ouvir o Bob e a Denise :) qt ao M.W é completamente dispensável :)como ele há muitos ...

impressionante a sua capacidade de busca :)

7:42 da tarde  
Blogger AM said...

maria,

odp não é cinturão negro da blogosfera :)
a posta estava (à minha espera...) à distância de um link :)
o que eu pagava para ver era a cara de perplexidade e aborrecimento do Bob V. a ter que gramar a "verbalização" das chachadas "decon" do wark mingley... :)

8:08 da tarde  
Anonymous Anónimo said...

Ai não é cinturão negro então é bruxo :)
odpois explico-lhe...

O Bob é um senhor deve ter gramado td com uma cara simpática :) e pensou "este" nem daqui a cem anos chega lá :):):):):)

8:24 da tarde  
Blogger AM said...

adoro as "caretas" do venturi
impassível, com um sorriso mordaz
está tudo (os livros, a obra) naquela cara :)

aguardo a sua magia :)

9:32 da tarde  

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