Superhumanity - Sylvia Lavin - History for an Empty Future

History for an Empty Future

Sylvia Lavin

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This frontispiece engraving features a classical statue of Palladio's embedded in a facade with Corinthian pillars in the English edition of First Book of Architecture (London: Samuel Harding, 1728).

Superhumanity
October 2016










Notes
1

This is the subject of a forthcoming book by Peggy Phelan, Death Rehearsals: The Performances of Andy Warhol and Ronald Reagan.

2

On the relation between signatures and the notion of an anthology of existences, see Michel Foucault, “Lives of Infamous Men.” In Paul Rabinow ed., The Essential Foucault: 1954-1984 (New York: The New Press, 1994), 157–175.

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On the history of the artist’s signature, see Nicole Hegener, Künstlersignaturen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart: Artists’ signatures from Antiquity to the present (Petersberg: Imhof, 2013).

4

For a historical account of the exhibit, see Gustave Fraipont, Histoire de l’habitation humaine: Constructions édifiées par Charles Garnier (Paris: 1998-90).

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See Charles Garnier and Auguste Ammann, L’Habitation humaine, (Paris: La Librarie modern, 1892).

6

Peter Eisenman’s official archive is held at the Canadian Center for Architecture.

7

Robert Venturi’s professional archive forms part of The Venturi Scott Brown Collection, held in The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania.

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This particular sheet is misfiled and located among the papers concerned with the Guild House. On the completion, see Robert Venturi, “3 Projects,” Perspecta, Vol. 11, 1967: 103–111.

Superhumanity, a project by e-flux Architecture at the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, is produced in cooperation with the Istanbul Design Biennial, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand, and the Ernst Schering Foundation.