Slog - Comments on Using A Building http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building Jeanne Dekkers, a Dutch architect, is the designer of what is pictured... ...the Department of Geotechnology, Delft University of Technology. It's a sexual and muscular coupling of two buildings--raw concrete mounting scintillating glass--two periods of time, two very distinct modes and languages. What the work reveals is the contradiction at that core of any sexual unification: the whole is realized by a rupture, a crack, a break. To see more of Dekker's work (which for the most part is not erotic but almost always powerful), go here. As for the heart of her design philosophy, it is this: The quality... Copyright 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:32:48 -0800 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:58:34 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Ziggity This gives me the horn.

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073695 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073695 Architecture Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:44:31 -0800 Comment by Big Sven The core of any sexual unification is that the whole is realized by a rupture, crack, and/or break?

]]> Big Sven http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073728 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073728 Architecture Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:16:57 -0800 Comment by J It'd be hotter if it had tits. FAIL.

]]> J http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073746 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073746 Architecture Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:43:47 -0800 Comment by Banna Charlie has sex on the brain, as usual. And the Space Needle is just a big phallus that is erect for the soft beauty of EMP, right?

]]> Banna http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073752 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073752 Architecture Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:52:21 -0800 Comment by Pc Ah yes. This will be on hudnreds of thousands of posters all over the world, just like the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, Monticello, the Parthenon, everyone will love it's muscular sexiness and copy it everywhere, the way the "bungalow" style or "Cape Cod" style of "Federal" style is copied everywhere, in fact this will take over all those styles because it's just such good architecture.

Not.

]]> Pc http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073783 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073783 Architecture Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:16:14 -0800 Comment by you know you know, I had professors at Architecture school that talked this way all the time. you wanted to kill them. had never met such a set of pompous bastards... they either liked your stuff or they didn't... then they made up a bunch of shit to try to make it sound like some grand thought or philosophy or statement or whatever. often as not what they said in one review completely conradicted what they had said in another, even minutes apart. a great job if you can get it

]]> you know http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073788 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073788 Architecture Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:20:02 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball @1, Me, too! This is way awesome. I love the Dutch for their hash, big uncut cocks and architecture like this.

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073920 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1073920 Architecture Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:30:38 -0800 Comment by The Incredible Hash @7,

That's the cockiest thing I've ever read.

]]> The Incredible Hash http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1074052 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/using_a_building#c1074052 Architecture Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:58:34 -0800