I would recommend downloading and reading in Acrobat Reader, because in preview form the annotations are pretty hideous
Recapping One-on-One with professor:
Congreatation:
- Arrhythmic: Here we’re looking at the headstones as our primary formal element. The variability of material and form among the headstones to communicate the same significance (the commemoration/recognition of a life lost) becomes the object of interest.
- Ambiguous: Here we’re looking at “implied” form. Rather than explicitly expressing a function or purpose (or so I think?), the headstones are ambiguous in that they are symbolizes a space below ground of uniform plots which are otherwise invisible to use.
Residence:
- Diachronic: Here we are looking at the comparison of the forms seen by Walker Evans’ camera vs my own. The varying stlyes of facades, juxtaposed with the original facade still in tact in the first unit
- Connected: The condition of connection which all of the units or “houses” bear to one another as elements of a single construction
Conflict:
- Associative: Looking at the x-axis, the syntax is the relation which the life, work, death cycle epitomized in the fabric (evans’ photo). The associative, on the other hand is the conflict of the steel stacks and the various forms of “conflict of labor”, “conflict of heat”, “conflict of environment”, “conflict of abandonment”, “conflict of economic failure of the steel industry” and so on
- Solitary: The solitary form of the stacks which makes it so different to the rest of Bethlehem. Also its removal from the rest of the city these days in terms of function. It occupies a massive amount of space, yet it is a solitary in it’s absence of function