One big plus of a day away on the train is relaxed time to read. I had with me a book on structuralism and post-structuralism by Madan Sarup. I read chapters about Lacan and Derrida, and did so with real interest and increased understanding.
The project I am working on in the Tschumi project has made me look again at these ideas. His work at Parc de la Villette can be described as a deconstruction of a particular architectural vocabulary, namely constructivism, as mentioned earlier. He had already challenged traditional architecture by introducing methods from other media such as film and theatre in the Manhattan Transcripts, and therefore incorporating an active element into architectural design.
His architecture became a fluid "text" equally interpretable by designer and viewer. This is different
from the traditional notion of a finished "work". Kiaer, the artist mentioned previously in this blog, is also creating art as an incomplete "text".
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