2024-11-18

# To Do > [!multi-column] > >> [!bug] Overdue >> ```tasks >> not done >> (due before today) >> hide task count >> hide due date >> hide edit button >> short mode >> ``` > >> [!success] Today >> ```tasks >> not done >> (due on today) >> hide task count >> hide due date >> hide edit button >> short mode >> ``` > [!multi-column] > >> [!note] Current Papers >> ```dataview >> LIST WITHOUT ID file.link >> FROM #paper/current >> SORT file.ctime ASC >> ``` # Health Tracking > [!multi-column] > >> [!abstract] Weight Tracker >> ```tracker >> searchType: frontmatter >> searchTarget: weight >> folder: / >> line: >> title: "Weight Over Time" >> yAxisLabel: Weight (kg) >> lineColor: "#69b3a2" >> ``` > >> [!danger] Beer Tracker >> ```tracker >> searchType: frontmatter >> searchTarget: beer500ml >> folder: / >> line: >> title: "Weekly Beer Pattern (500ml bottles)" >> yAxisLabel: "Bottles" >> lineColor: "#ff6b6b" >> ``` >> >> ```tracker >> searchType: frontmatter >> searchTarget: beer500ml >> folder: / >> summary: >> template: "🍺 Weekly Beer Status:\n- Bottles this week: {{sum()}}/8\n- Remaining: {{8 - sum()}}\n- Standard drink equivalent: {{sum() * 1.52}}\n\n📊 Status: {{8 - sum() >= 0 ? '✅ On track!' : '⚠️ Over budget'}}\n\nℹ️ Quick Reference:\n1 bottle = 1.5 drinks\n2 bottles = 3 drinks\n3 bottles = 4.5 drinks (over limit)\n\n🎯 Session Targets:\n- Ideal: 2 bottles (3 drinks)\n- Max: 3 bottles (4.5 drinks)" >> style: "color:var(--text-normal); background-color: var(--background-secondary); padding: 10px; border-radius: 5px;" >> ``` # Notes > [!multi-column] > >> [!summary]- Created Today >> ```dataview >> LIST WITHOUT ID file.link >> FROM "" >> WHERE file.cday = this.file.day AND file.name != this.file.name >> SORT file.ctime ASC >> ``` > >> [!example]- Modified Today >> ```dataview >> LIST WITHOUT ID file.link >> FROM "" >> WHERE file.mday = this.file.day AND file.name != this.file.name AND file.cday != this.file.day >> SORT file.mtime ASC >> ``` > [!multi-column] > >> [!danger]- Created Yesterday >> ```dataview >> LIST WITHOUT ID file.link >> FROM "" >> WHERE file.cday = date(this.file.day-1) AND file.name != this.file.name >> SORT file.ctime ASC >> ``` > >> [!info]- Created Two Days Ago >> ```dataview >> LIST WITHOUT ID file.link >> FROM "" >> WHERE file.cday = date(this.file.day-2) AND file.name != this.file.name >> SORT file.ctime ASC >> ``` > [!multi-column] > >> [!abstract] Recent Thoughts >> ```dataview >> LIST WITHOUT ID file.link >> FROM #thought >> WHERE date(today) - file.cday <= dur(14 days) >> SORT file.ctime DESC >> ``` ## Quick Links > [!multi-column] > >> [!example] Quick Links >> ```dataview >> LIST WITHOUT ID file.link >> FROM #quicklink >> SORT file.cday DESC >> ``` # [[Scratch Pad]] - Hifi nation ai music. - ## Notes on Elisa's talk: Understanding Situated Architecture: Buildings #### (I) Is being always surrounded by a particular outer physical context a constitutive property of buildings? - **Bacchini (2017):** Yes. - **I am skeptical.** #### (II) Are all buildings that are constitutively surrounded by a particular outer physical context site-specific? - **Bacchini (2017):** Yes. - **I claim that things are more complicated than this** (Caldarola 2021). --- ### (I) Any Building Has: 1. The property of being always located at a particular latitude and longitude. 2. The property of being always surrounded by a specific outer physical context. **Bacchini (2017)** asks whether (1) and (2) are constitutive or merely contingent properties of buildings. - Bacchini argues that (1) is a contingent property of buildings. **I concur**. Examples: - The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris is relocated, along with the whole city of Paris, to Clark County, Nevada. - The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris stays in the same place, and the city of Paris keeps changing its look throughout the years. - Bacchini defends the following view: - **CS:** (2) is a constitutive property of all buildings. In other words, all buildings are constitutively situated (CS). Example: The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris is relocated to the Nevada desert. - **Bacchini discards the following explanations for CS:** - (a) CS does not hold because buildings are originally conceived by their makers as permanently located. - (b) CS does not hold because buildings have foundations. - (c) CS does not hold because buildings are difficult to move. - **Bacchini offers the following argument in support of CS:** 1. All buildings are presented for [[aesthetic appreciation]]. 2. Buildings are like paintings in that their constitutive properties are those properties that matter to their [[aesthetic appreciation]]. 3. The property of being surrounded by a specific outer physical context always matters to the [[aesthetic appreciation]] of all buildings. **Conclusion: CS** - **Problems:** - Bacchini offers no evidence in support of (1) (what about, e.g., the average Plattenbau?). - Bacchini offers no evidence in support of (3) (what about, e.g., the Bauhaus Archive, Berlin?). - **Two mistakes to avoid:** 1. Thinking that the fact that we can aesthetically appreciate pretty much any building supports (1). 2. Mistaking the [[aesthetic appreciation]] of an environment for the [[aesthetic appreciation]] of a constitutively situated building, and thinking that the former supports (3). --- ### (II) Bacchini also defends the following view: - **SS:** All buildings are site-specific; for a building to be site-specific it is necessary and sufficient that it be located in a certain place. **From my rejection of CS it follows that I also reject SS.** - **My view on [[the relationship between]] buildings and their location:** 1. All (or only those) buildings conceived, at least in part, as responses to their physical site are constitutively situated, i.e., sited (e.g. Matera's Sassi, Genova's Lavatrici, CCTV Tower, Beijing, Norwegian Opera House, Oslo). 2. There is a spectrum of constitutive situatedness (from Santiago de Compostela's Cidade da Cultura to Genova's Lavatrici). 3. Some sited buildings also articulate content about the historical and/or social and/or cultural context of their production without recruiting their physical sites (e.g., CCTV Tower, Beijing). 4. Some sited buildings also articulate content about the historical and/or social and/or cultural context of their production by recruiting their physical sites. Those buildings are truly site-specific (e.g., Norwegian Opera House, Oslo). --- ### References - Bacchini, Fabio (2017). "The Persistence of Buildings and The Context Problem", *Footprint*, 20: 17-35. - Caldarola, Elisa (2020). *Filosofia dell'arte contemporanea: installazioni, siti, oggetti*, Macerata: Quodlibet. - Caldarola, Elisa (2021). - Crow, Thomas (1987). "Site-Specific Art: The Strong and The Weak", in *Modern Art in the Common Culture*, New Haven, CT: Yale [[University Press]]. - Koolhaas, Rem (2008). "An Obsessive Compulsion towards the Spectacular", *Spiegel International*, 18th July 2008, online edition: [link](https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/rem-koolhaas-an-obsessive-compulsion-towards-the-spectacular) - Kwon, Miwon (2002). *One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity*, MIT Press. - Meyer, James (2000). "The Functional Site; or The Transformation of Site-Specificity", in Erika Suderburg (ed.), *Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art*, University of Minnesota Press: 23-37. - Snøhetta (2008). "Oslo Opera House | Snøhetta", *ArchDaily*, 7th May 2008, online publication: [link](https://www.archdaily.com/440/oslo-opera-house-sn%C3%B8hetta) - Young, Michael (ed.) (2007). "Landscape Architecture: Site/Non-Site", *Architectural Design*, 77. - Suderburg, Erika (ed.) (2000). *Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art*, University of Minnesota Press. [[Creative Aspection and AI Art]]