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I started this site “Handout” to show fragments of work and ideas that I wanted to share.

My student’s beautifully crafted work at UArts , Temple, and University of Arkansas is worth a look…. so they are here.

I will soon post more of my Cooper Union ( I was 21 in 1976 ) Thesis “A Library For The Blind”. Only selected images ever made the light of day, mostly in “Education of an Architect”.

Inspiration comes from anonymous buildings and constructions, machinery, and landscapes and their and translation through drawing.

I call my output “diagrams” as a tip of my hat to Anthony Braxton’s abstract scores. Though not explicit note for note his scores allude to performance as an relational art.

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Architecture of Pessimism

John Hejduk: We are no longer in an age of optimism. We went through a period where there were only programs of optimism. Schools. Hospitals. Sunlight everywhere. Boundaries open up. Privacy was at a minimum. No bedrooms. No kitchens. Open space. No need to have privacy, because this was a very utopian, light-filled, optimistic view of the future. There wasn’t a counterforce culturally in the same way as we had in the Middle Ages where the programs of pessimism existed to off-balance programs of optimism. Now we are entering into an architecture of pessimism. I don’t take this as a negative condition at all. It’s simply a necessary psychic state. There has to be an equilibrium, a balancing in order for both lines to be running in a parallel and productive way again, like the Middle Ages, where a simultaneity of conditions will provoke certain arguments not presently possible.

The Optimism of The Cantilever

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