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News & ArtsTuesday, June 21, 2011
Architecture The Pleasure of Architecture and the Pleasure of the Body
Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:12 AM
Please do as I have done and compare Josephine Baker's remarkable body (NSFW) with the remarkable architecture of the Josephine Baker School in La Courneuve.
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"Meticulous attention was given by the architects to the walkways from one space to another" -- yes, and none whatsoever to the outside, the part facing the street, which looks like a prison or a warehouse in an abandoned part of Detroit. The public sphere is the enemy, something to be shunned; all the action takes place in the enclosed courtyard, where it can be policed. This building, like almost all high-concept modern architecture, is fascist.
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The windows and doors on this building only serve to interrupt the clean modern lines. They should removed.
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It's like de Stijl and Le Corbusier had some kind of illicit affair while Frank Lloyd Wright sat in a dark corner masturbating.
Lovely shadow play.
Lovely shadow play.
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"The Earth is blue, like an orange." (phrase on a window in one of the last images). Are they going for Dada along with their Insane-Control building? It looks fun to visit, but I wonder what the long-term impact is on the children.
Makes me wonder, is it possibly named for a different Josephine Baker? Josephine Baker the orange robot perhaps??
Makes me wonder, is it possibly named for a different Josephine Baker? Josephine Baker the orange robot perhaps??
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@5 Precisely. This is visually impressive not because of the structure, but because of the clean colors. Without it, and the sun in the photos, that's a bleak scene.
Perhaps the necessity of color is the true Josephine Baker metaphor at work here.
Perhaps the necessity of color is the true Josephine Baker metaphor at work here.
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I can't believe thats an elementary school. The place I went looks like a goddamn prison. Breathtaking.
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