Project Proposal #3 ERZ://Trea_li//ss

3 or four times a week, I make a drive. I drive from my apartment at 912 N. Central ave,

I was asked this morning "What is art" a question that really has no answer. Another question I find more interesing at the moment is "What is Architecture" I have recently published a blog entitled the Concrete Aesthetics of Virtual Architecture. One article I have been reading, and drawing from, to include in the blog is entitled "Architecture in the age of its virtual Disappearance"

by combining two architectural elements, one newer (the flat screen) and one older (concrete) but both undeniably modern, I am hoping to create something which functions from a distance as an architectural object. That is architecture as object, not as space. What I have had to conclude is that architecture is not the sum of it's materials, it IS in a very literal sense space on many differnt levels. EMPTY space. The materials are merely a reference point. They provide information, they coerce you into behaving in a specific way that is prescribed by the space, and the design of the space. What this project actually is, is an inversion of Architecture, while still appearing to BE something resembling architecture. The treliss of the bride is an artifact. It is an object. It has been stripped of it's function, and therefore it has been stripped of it's designation. It has become artifact. What becomes of interest when examining the artifact, are the remnants of it's function, whose lack of context excercises a palpable and peculiar power over the senses. On the other side of this coin, is the flat screen; the plasma screen, the lcd screen. It has a privilidged role in the world. It's existence and disemination into the public world was heralded by science fiction movies and literature. It was in a sense already part of our lives before we even knew it. Now, in a last ditch effort to stave off UNplanned obsolescence, the television, a ubiquitous if not outdated part of modern life. It's usefullness as object has been eclipsed, and it has collapsed upon itself to become a physical aspect of our manmade environment, a wall. So here we have two literal artifacts. The reason that the trealis hasn't been torn down is related to the reason why the television has not been abandoned. It holds power. As an object it has power even if it's not of use to us anymore. At the heart of this power, is it's ability to frame and define space, the fundamental role of architecture. So, what this object actually IS, is not two disembodied artifacts, but a large scale construction that functions AS architecture.

You see it from affar, it functions visually, imagistically, as an architectural object.