Mason Conner

This account is solely for ARCH329. I love Ball State architecture. There’s nothing I would rather be doing than architecture. Real twitter: @MACconner24

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In case anyone is curious. The House of the Century is located on Chenango Lake in Angleton, Texas! #architecturalhistory #antfarm

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@DylanFruchey You have to let the brain strings flow man

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@georgiacarch329 At the point that Detroit is at, I believe they should work with it. Seems like it would be in the cities best interest

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"This bipolar structure was based on railways creating a regional division between dense center and suburban villa edge," (The Emergence of "Landscape Urbanism" | Grahame Shane) #architecturalhistory

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"The desire for the city as compressed hustle and bustle in small spaces remains strong," (The Emergence of "Landscape Urbanism" | Grahame Shane) #architecturalhistory

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(The Emergence of "Landscape Urbanism" | Grahame Shane) #architecturalhistory

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"Given this “decompression,” the question facing American postindustrial cities in rust belts like Detroit is what to do about the abandoned factories and acres of vacant workers’ housing, with redundant commercial strips," 1/

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"It is the consideration of the geographical landscape and the ecological cause-effect network in the landscape," (The Emergence of "Landscape Urbanism" | Grahame Shane) #architecturalhistory

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"Because governments and corporations cannot be expected to take the initiative in establishing new and multilayered societies..." (Radical Reconstruction | Lebbeus Woods) #architecturalhistory

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"...they produce visual evocations that, however precise and detailed, are intended only as heuristic aids, guides that will stimulate transformations by others," (Radical Reconstruction | Lebbeus Woods) #architecturalhistory

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"Deconstruction is not demolition, or dissimulation," (Deconstructivist Architecture | Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley) #architecturalhistory

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"Architecture has always been a central cultural instruction valued above all for its provision of stability and order," (Deconstructivist Architecture | Philip Johnson and Mark Wigley) #architecturalhistory

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"Not only can functionalism indeed be recognized as a species of positivism, but like positivism, it now can be seen to issue from within the terms of an idealist view of reality." (Post-Functionalism | Peter Eisenman) #architecturalhistory

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"This shift in balance has produced a situation whereby, for the past fifty years, architects have understood design as the product of some oversimplified form-follows-function formula," (Post-Functionalism | Peter Eisenman) #architecturalhistory

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Some of these writers have got to chill out with run on sentences man. Feels like I just read an entire book after reading one sentence #architecturalhistory

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(Collage City | Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter)

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"The city of modern architecture has not yet been built," Thoughts? Technically speaking this is true, but can we consider cities that are transforming into modern architecture as a "city of modern architecture?"
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"Now the ecstatic component of modern architecture has received a completely insufficient," (Collage City | Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter) #architecturalhistory

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(Collage City | Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter)

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"Modern architecture is surely most cogently to be interpreted as a gospel as, quite literally, a message of good news," Thoughts on this? Do you agree or disagree? In world of where typically modern things are good news, is this an accurate statement? #architecturalhistoryQ

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"The analogous lining, like the phenomenon of crowded intricacies in a rigid frame, is rare in our architecture," (Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture | Robert Venturi) #architecturalhistory