Notes For Jon Lee

listed in order of appearance:

-seems to be general right now

-needs specificity of instance where the program & architecture make a statement obout your thesis

-what is the semi-dark humor about the bar next to the grave
____dark humor/shadow

-how do you charge it and make it humorous
it feels neutral right now...a little detached

-be less timid in the moves you make by drawing to produce your commentary

-you could do it two ways: move away from the site or into it as you have chosen to

-if in the site you must participate more in the site....not just an observer but participant

-section is critical

-show...convince...how your work does what the photograph you presented does

-landscape is essential

-open up the flesh of the existing condition

-think of the audience that perceives this opening up of the flesh and participates within it

-is the project - the monumental memory machine vs. your proposal

-right now your project appears to turn its back on the existing conditions

-what is your building's tactical approach? does it perceive or deny presence of the monument?

-this acces to the monument is also critical

-consider the importance of the staircase does it become an architectural topography?

-the stair returns your project to it's departure point____maybe this is the bare form of your thesis?

-do you provide alternative navigational roots for the visitor....alternative choreography to the present landscape?

-do a little dance on the stair case

-make your method as profound as the way in which you are able to verbalize it....make your method of presentation speak for you

-no more reading.....just draw and build....okay maybe a little bit about grant's biography if you think it could help....but no more reading

-sat·ire /ˈsætaɪər/
–noun
1.
the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

-take a risk...if it kills you...so be it

-monumentality- what is it to you in your site and in your project? what does your architecture say in response to monumentality or how does it pronounce your position?

-are you subverting? celebrating?

-how do you utilize the shadow?

_radiating shadow_