Saturday 21 September 2013

NEW ARCHITECTURES/NEW LANDSCAPES - STEVE McCAFFERY

'Pataphysics and Potential Architecture

Steve McCaffery

See Steve's book 'Carnival' where typography, words and meaning go to play

Two 'Pataphysical concepts:

Clinamen: The unpredictable swerve. "The smallest possible aberation that can make the greatest possible difference" - Christian Bök

Syzygy: "A conjunction of opposites" - Steve McCaffery

An example given was of replacing wall with ha-ha giving 'Berlin ha-ha', 'Great ha-ha of China', 'Hadrian's ha-ha'

"Architecture to be considered as frozen 'Pataphysics"
















Carnival:



Steve McCaffery:


Christian BöK:


'Pataphysics: