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Jim Bogle

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It has evolved past the need for gravity; earth puts it at a disadvantage. This alien architecture has failed to evoke a sense of place. Its tectonics are completely ambiguous: there is no floor, wall, ceiling, roof. There is just the continuous surface and its scaffold. Its section is unoccupiable. For this reason we must float it into space (but lets tie it down just in case we want it back). It has no context, so who really cares if it ends up on the moon? At least there it can be appreciated for what it really is. It is an architecture of spectacle that is in need of a contextual counterpart. It has failed to find it here on earth, but event like this will surely suffice.

Can the iconic be contextual? What does it mean to be contextual within the new global culture? It will take spectacular events to contextualize the inherently iconic forms emerging globally at an ever increasing rate.