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Body MOvies:
“…my work is not site specific, but it’s relation specific; I’m looking for ways to establish alien relations in public space.” – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

"That kind of redundancy of representation, with its accompanying inhibition and impoverishment of memory, was what we might call an effect of the spectacle." Crary, p 103

“…techniques of light and sound are used in order to produce a “total environment of ceaseless, spontaneous answers, of enthusiastic feedbacks and wide-ranging contacts.” Weber and Vockler

“…the creative potential of the masses … would ‘be stimulated by an art which does not define but suggests, …creating a new and fantastic way of seeing.” Thomas Crow, p 48

“Their visual reduction … so minimized the aesthetic experience as to throw the viewer back onto an attentiveness to his or her own perceptual engagement with the work.” Branden Joseph, p 86

MiMa Cafe: through the use of mirrored steel, the image of the cafe and its environment is reciprocally mediated by the cafe and its environment which is dependent upon a viewer's perspective.

“Hot media are, therefore, low in participation, and cool media are high in participation or completion by the audience.” Marshall McLuhan, p 39

“The new design ambiguity relishes merger and fusion of inflexible opposites.” C Ray Smith, p 140

“…history is not teleological but is rather a repetitive oscillation between animation and stillness.” Peggy Phelan, p 291

The Amish Taxi - The combo pack of historic futuristc preservation that historicizes the future in order to avoid future shock.

"Dissectibility takes those ideas we favor, cut away those we dislike and project forward the new combinations." Charles Jencks, p 32

“That makes perfect sense because clearly the whole idea of modernization raises either latently or overtly the issue of what to keep” Rem Koolhaas

“It misses a critical difference between the men of the past or present and the men of the future. This difference is summed up in the word ‘transience’.” Alvin Toffler, p. 42

“No matter how fast we go, no matter how cleverly we schedule, there are never enough hours in the day.” Carl Honore, p. 20

“No body of knowledge can inspire anybody to do anything if its own guardian should lose their dynamic.” Reyner Banham, p. 257

“If not immediate credibility, gossip bestows instant significance.” Robert Somol, p 6

“Seduction depends on this kind of loose fit between the aesthetics of a project and its intellection.” Sylvia Lavin, p 90

“… one set of our crucial duties is to keep broadcasting a new interpretation of reality with consistent frequency.” Alejandro Zaera-Polo, p 78

“These works do not mean anything, they do not say anything, but neither are they silent.” Jeff Kipnis, p 96

“The discernment … is the intelligence of the tangible realm, an act of mind that discovers the intelligibility of phenomena without ever leaving the domain of appearances …” Jacqueline Lichtenstein, p 15

“Thus they move from designing everything in a single work of architecture to adding a trace of architecture to everything.” Wigley, p 3

“However, the breadth of choice increases the architect’s responsibility – he must resist the temptation to hand over the interior to Jacobsen, Noguchi, Bertoia and Co.” Banham, p 100

“… we have to understand architectural drawings as something that defines the things it transmits. It is not a neutral vehicle transporting conceptions into objects, but a medium that carries and distributes information in a particular mode.” Evans, p 209

“Individualism is its theory. In Vandervelde the house appears as the expression of personality. Ornament is to this house what the signature is to a painting.” Benjamin, p 154

“Junkspace has to swallow more and more program to survive; soon we will be able to do anything anywhere. We will have conquered place.” Koolhaas