My personal hero for today is Gina Myers for sending me tons of football-related materials and a copy of the tiny.
Caught the penultimate episode of design: e2 on PBS yesterday night (after missing eps. 2,3 & 4), featuring green building in China. Was quite fascinated about the focus on sustainability, recyclibility and low-energy uses and how the architects mixed traditional technologies (feng shui) with more contemporary methods (concrete, glass and steel). "The way we remake buildings influences the way we see the city." Architecture as the most technological art. If, as derek beaulieu writes in with wax, technology dictates what we write, how can green building influence our poetry?
Reading various essays about Öyvind Fahlström (link taken from Johannes's blog), we learn that Brazilian concrete poets had already co-opted the ideas of Le Corbusier into their methods. And in a way, we already see some "green principles" at work in the poetry of Josely Vianna Baptista.
In Baptista's poetry, the Mbyá word ñe'eng ("word-soul") stands out the same way feng shui seeps into those e2 buildings under construction in Beijing.
Caught the penultimate episode of design: e2 on PBS yesterday night (after missing eps. 2,3 & 4), featuring green building in China. Was quite fascinated about the focus on sustainability, recyclibility and low-energy uses and how the architects mixed traditional technologies (feng shui) with more contemporary methods (concrete, glass and steel). "The way we remake buildings influences the way we see the city." Architecture as the most technological art. If, as derek beaulieu writes in with wax, technology dictates what we write, how can green building influence our poetry?
Reading various essays about Öyvind Fahlström (link taken from Johannes's blog), we learn that Brazilian concrete poets had already co-opted the ideas of Le Corbusier into their methods. And in a way, we already see some "green principles" at work in the poetry of Josely Vianna Baptista.
In Baptista's poetry, the Mbyá word ñe'eng ("word-soul") stands out the same way feng shui seeps into those e2 buildings under construction in Beijing.
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