Just a warning up front; I had a hard time following this lecture, so don't be surprised if you find me rambling. Brazilian artist Lais Myrrha came to the COA lecture series this Monday evening. She showed us one of her recent works, which was a memorial to the Tragedy of Gameleira (Brazil, 1971), and the lives that were lost there. From what I understand, Myrrha's work served to honor the dead, but also to find a sort of beauty within the destruction and chaos of a collapsed building.
David Byrne said it best. Things fall apart, it's scientific. It should be understood that the job of an architect, on a very fundamental level, is to counteract the entropy of the universe. I, for one, prefer buildings that fall into the standing category. I do not see much use in a building that has collapsed, except to serve as an example of what not to do on a construction site. I do not think that they floor plan for the next project I work on will come from a bunch of sticks I dropped across the ground, either. However, if architects are supposed to counteract the second law of thermodynamics, then maybe we should concentrate on taking those piles of sticks and turning them in to something useful.
Thanks for reading. Until Wednesday.
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