REMEMBER: you are physically lazy but conceptually decent. always choose what is easy and available so you can just start projecting a concept upon it.
Site is Los Angeles Pershing Square.
Setup:
Scenario: Biltmore Hotel Collapses
Players: research LA Live
Paradox: ?? conflicting interest groups?
Ambition: LA Live twin
what i want to do: use the rubble, ideas of what is public. integrating entropy and time into the project. elements of nature.
Research Avenues:
Mike Davis, City of Quartz
Norman Klein, A History of Forgetting
Readings:
Bruno LaTour: Making Things Public
David Gissen: Subnature
Sanford Kwintor: Requiem for a City at the End of the Millenium
Secret Precedent:
Rem Koolhaas, Exodus & DNY
Horizontal Skyscrapers? (shh, never say this)
Title:
Ludicrous Los Angeles
Looney Los Angeles (L_LA_L)
LooneyLA (looney laaa!): Silly Symphonies for a Phantom Public
Looney Lost Angeles: Silly Symphonies for a Phantom Public
Bases covered:
Urban
"Phantom Public"
Rethinking Construction as a static end goal
"you need a twist. A twist in the architecture."