Athen’s Block
An investigation on architecture and language
the inspiration
| an arial photo of modern Athens street grid |
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older artworks, specifically those questioning J.Albers, H.Hofmann and Vera Molnar.
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| © 2014-16 inspired by J.Albers |
© 2023 inspired by H.Hofmann |
© 2018 inspired by Vera Molnar |
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the basic concept
- create a square and add smaller squares to the border in general more inside(1) than outside(0.5)
- stack “layers of” squares on top to the main square
- building a block
- use of add and subtract operations
- minor squares can be boxes and frames of any type - no pure planes though
- grid vs irritated grid vs no grid
extended: squares or rectangles or quadrangles in squares or rectangles or quadrangles
| lieschen mueller right: totally random, not orientated |
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| © 2023 July | First variant of the Athens Block left: generated by pre and script blocks right: by input texts |
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| © 2023 July | Second variant of the Athens Block left: made with pre and script blocks right: by input texts |
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the use of tweetRandom here
tweetRandom uses an text input, uses their modular of 256 byte values, as if they were ASCII not UTF-8+ nowadays, and generates a sequence of values between 0 and 1 which appears to be random
architecture as a proto/archetype of an universal language
The bear and burden of/in build stable: carry and load mobile building: movement, balance, compensation building socially: speaking, acting, regulating Communication, Commerce, Laws-Religion-Politics-Arts
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