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Architects submitted designs for barriers between the US an Mexico in a humorous challenge raised by the New York Times.
Architect Antoine Predock captured tried to capture the irony in his wall that wasn't a wall. His intent was to "dematerialize" the object with
I'm glad that they can sort of laugh about it. Yet, I'm afraid that humor, even an attempt to design solutions to "defy ugly problems," cannot solve the problem that such an insidious idea was broached in the first place. What doesn't receive much attention &mdash certainly not theoutrage critical discussion it deserves &mdash is that there is already a significant amount of fence in place. And it's ugly.
Architect Antoine Predock captured tried to capture the irony in his wall that wasn't a wall. His intent was to "dematerialize" the object with
an earthwork of rammed, tilted dirt [that] would be pushed into place by Mexican day laborers. Crushed rock scattered before it, and heated from below, would appear to lift it off the ground, in the way that heat in the desert appears to make objects hover, like mirages.
"There would be confusion about the materiality of the wall," Mr. Predock explained. "It would discourage you from crossing, but the message from both sides would be one of good will."
I'm glad that they can sort of laugh about it. Yet, I'm afraid that humor, even an attempt to design solutions to "defy ugly problems," cannot solve the problem that such an insidious idea was broached in the first place. What doesn't receive much attention &mdash certainly not the
Posted 18 June 2006 at 13:20.
A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.
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