An Architect's Consumer Guide to Metaphor Shopping

VISIT SITE @ WWW.BUCSESCU.COM/PARAGONE

Dear students,

Welcome,

Allow me to begin with a story. The reason this story should interest you,

is because it is your life. The story describes the adventures of Paragone,

the first architect, in the market place of ideas. Let me tell it to you.

Paragone was endowed by God with knowledge of all things man made. He was assigned a very well defined role in the total scheme of things in the universe; that of the Master Builder. He was all knowing, productive, happily living on the top of a hill in an orchard full of apple trees. God warned him of only one sacred rule: Do not ask why, just build.

Well, Paragone restrained himself as long as he could until one day when faced with a particularly difficult choice in the way of construction, he inadvertently asked himself the forbidden question: Why was one solution better than the other? And all hell broke loose.

God was very angry with Paragone. In his anger he condemned Paragone to a life as blind architect philosopher, and he was struck with total amnesia.

To get the full story visit the Paragone’s website as he struggles to

understand anew the concepts of Time Space and Causality at:

www.bucsescu.com/paragone/index.htm

An Advanced Guide to reading and research about Space, Time and Causality

Dan Bucsescu, Associate Professor of Architecture, Pratt institute

How can Non-Euclidean Geometry be visualized

What are the elements of an Architectural Event?

Course Outline

1 Course Introduction: Space / Time in Art and Architecture 

Victor Burgin: "Geometry and Abjection"  

2 Space in Physics and Mechanics

David Park: "Time and Form in the Physical World"

Einstein: "the Universe and Dr. Einstein (by Lincoln Barnett) 

3 Absolute /Relative Space  Newton vs. Leibnitz

Isaac Newton: "Absolute and Relative Space, Time, and Motion"  

George Berkeley: "Criticism of Newton's Doctrines on Space" 

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: the Monodology  

 4 Object  

Jacques Monod: "Of Strange Objects" in Chance and Necessity 

5 Event: Space Time Relations  

Gilles Deleuze: "What is an event?" in the Fold

Alfred Whitehead: "Space and Motion", "Objects" 

6 the Birth of Geometry as Measurement

7 Relative Time  

Henri Bergson: "Change"  

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8 Geometry as Perception  

Henri Poincare: "Geometry and Space"  

9 Non-Euclidean Geometry  

Hans Reichenbach: "the Philosophy of Space and Time "

10 Visualization of Non-Euclidean Geometry:

Hans Reichenbach: "the Philosophy of Space and Time:

Patrick A. Heelan: "Hyperbolic Visual Space"

11. Hyperspace

Additional Sources

Rudolf Arnheim: "Entropy and Art, an Essay on DisorderandOrder"

Isaac Asimov: "Search for Knowledge"  

Isaac Asimov "Thermodynamics" 

Ernst Mach: "Newton's Views on Time, Space and Motion"  

Martin Heidegger: "Building, Dwelling and Thinking" in Poetry, Language and Thought  

Alfred Whitehead: "the Anatomy of Scientific ideas" chap. 9 and chp. 10,

Alfred Whitehead "Nature and Life", "Time" 

Gilles Deleuze: "the Fold,Leibnitz and the Baroque

Edmund Husserl: "Lived Experience"  

Jean Piaget: "Primary Operations"

Hans Reichenbach: "Coordinative Definitions, Rigid Bodies and Relativity of Space" 

Maurice Merleau-Ponty: "Cezanne’s Doubt" in Sense and Non-Sense

Greg Lynn: "Multiplicitous and In-Organic Bodies" 

Stephen Hawking "Space and Time" in A Brief History of Time

Rupert Sheldrake, "the Presence of the Past, Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature.