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	<title>David Gissen</title>
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	<description>David Gissen</description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Project: Reconstruction 1870</title>
				
		<link>http://davidgissen.org/Project-Reconstruction-1870</link>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:21:41 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>David Gissen</dc:creator>
		
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Yale University and The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NYC, 1996-98

The project started my consideration of "historical practices" — historical work in which the appearance of history as text is thrown into question.

In various architectural history courses I was introduced to the work of 18th and 19th century architects who sought techniques for reconstructing buildings from Roman and Greek ruins. This primarily entailed drawings that represented buildings as they may have once existed-- work by Le Roy, Labrouste, among numerous others. The work of Henri Labrouste was particularly inspiring as he sought to place the act of architectural reconstruction within the particular social activity of a former society. Reconstruction was a form of social and disciplinary agitation for him. 

In considering this earlier activity of reconstruction, the following questions were posed: How might a reconstruction operate today? How might the reconstruction of a building from the past be a provocation? What does it mean to reconstruct the very act of reconstruction?

As a case study, I chose to experimentally "reconstruct" the floating pools that once enabled people to swim in the East and Hudson Rivers in New York City. At the time, the lower east harbor of New York City, where these buildings were once located, was undergoing a historical reconstruction through projects such as the South Street Seaport. In contrast to a reconstruction of commerce - a historical naturalization of the contemporary economy - the floating baths presented more difficult questions about the present of New York's rivers.

The idea of swimming in these rivers seemed in 1996, as it might still today, inherently provocative, frightening, repulsive. The idea was to reconstruct the building through drawings, photos and models to enable debate, protest, discussion about the position of the river in the experience of New York City. 

The project was a research project at Yale University that was staged as an exhibition at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City in 1998. David Pascu made the model reconstruction and Alex Porter developed the maps. 

Read the reviews of the project in the Village Voice and the New York Times</description>
		
		<excerpt> Yale University and The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NYC, 1996-98  The project started my consideration of "historical practices" — historical work in which...</excerpt>

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		<title>Project: Disability and History: Reconstruct the Acropolis Ramp</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:10:01 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>David Gissen</dc:creator>
		
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Project Credits
Concept, David Gissen
Renderings, Victor Hadjikyriacou
Greek translation, Olga Touloumi

The path to the summit of the Acropolis might be one of the most famous in the history of architecture. The arduous climb up a winding walkway has been written about by architects from Le Roy to Le Corbusier.

Το μονοπάτι προς την κορυφή της Ακρόπολης πρέπει να είναι ένα από τα πιο διάσημα στην ιστορία της αρχιτεκτονική. Για το επίπονο σκαρφάλωμα της περιέλιξης του μονοπατιού έχουν γράψει αρχιτέκτονες από τον Le Roy ως τον Le Corbusier.

In the 19th century, various poets, artists and philosophers praised the difficult walk up as an act of personal and historical discovery. The acropolis ascent achieved its significance at this time because it embodied the aesthetics of Romanticism, which simultaneously celebrated the discovery of ruins and sensations of physical duress. The pressures of historical time and the lived time of a perceiving subject became conjoined.

Στον 19ο αιώνα, διάφοροι ποιητές, καλλιτέχνες, και φιλόσοφοι εγκωμίασαν το δύσκολο περίπατο ως μια πράξη προσωπικής και ιστορικής ανακάλυψης. Η ανάβαση στην ακρόπολη πέτυχε την σημαντικότητά του αυτήν την περίοδο γιατί ενσωμάτωνε την αισθητική του ρομαντισμού, η οποία συγχρόνως εξυμνούσε την ανακάλυψη των ερειπίων και την αίσθηση μιας φυσικής απειλής. Οι πιέσεις του ιστορικού χρόνου και του βιωμένου χρόνου ενός αντιληφθέντος υποκειμένου ενώθηκαν.

In the 1950s the path was remade into a marble-stone lined walk by the Greek architect Dimitris Pikionis – a construction that related to the revived nationalistic ambitions of the post-war Greek state, rooted in a return to Hellenism.

Το 1950 το μονοπάτι επανακατασκευάστηκε με πλακόστρωση από μάρμαρο και πέτρα από τον Έλληνα αρχιτέκτονα Δημήτρη Πικιώνη⋅ μια κατασκευή που σχετίζεται με την αναβίωση των εθνικιστικών φιλοδοξιών του μεταπολεμικού Ελληνικού κράτους, ριζωμένου σε μια επιστροφή στον Ελληνισμό.

Other, more minor paths have spun out of Pikionis’. Of these, the most recent is a special route for the disabled. Responding to repeated criticism of the inaccessibility of the site, the organization that oversees the Acropolis built a wheelchair accessible path to the north that terminates in a modified construction elevator. The elevator accommodates one person and scales the side of the Acropolis, going up to the summit.

Και άλλα, μικρότερα μονοπάτια έχουν προκύψει από αυτό του Πικιώνη. Από αυτά, το πιο πρόσφατο αποτελεί μια ειδική πορεία για τους ανάπηρους. Απαντώντας στη συνεχή κριτική για την έλλειψη πρόσβασης στην περιοχή, ο οργανισμός που επιβλέπει την Ακρόπολη έκτισε στα βόρειά της μια πορεία προσβάσιμη σε αναπηρικές καρέκλες η οποία καταλήγει σε ένα τροποποιημένο κατασκευαστικό ανελκυστήρα. Ο ανελκυστήρας χωράει ένα άτομο και αναρρίχεται την πλαγιά της Ακρόπολης, ανεβαίνοντας προς την κορυφή.

We would like to enter into this three-hundred year consideration of the Acropolis ascent by proposing another route to the top – a reconstruction of the original path to the top that existed here from the 6th century BC to the middle-ages. In the 6th century the government of Athens funded the construction of a massive ramp that connected the outlying areas of the Athenian Agora to the northwest to the top of the Acropolis. The original ramp was constructed of earth with large retaining walls to its north and south. The ramp, which is a significant object in transforming the Acropolis from a feudal bastion to a religious site, enabled the entirety of the polis to ascend the Acropolis. If we take surviving depictions of the processions to the top as evidence, we see elderly and very young joining a procession that includes people on horseback and in carriages. The now-destroyed ramp is a significant aspect of the history of the Acropolis but unknown to virtually all who come to the site today.

Θα θέλαμε να μπούμε σε αυτή τη μελέτη της αναρρίχησης της Ακρόπολη με το να προτείνουμε μιά άλλη πορεία ανάβασης – μια ανακατασκευή του αυθεντικού μονοπατιού στην κορυφή που υπήρχε από τον 6ο αιώνα π.Χ μέχρι τον μεσαίωνα. Τον 6ο αίωνα π.Χ. η κυβέρνηση των Αθηνών χρηματοδότησε την κατασκευή μιας μαζικής κεκλιμένης επιφάνειας που συνέδεε τις απόκεντρες περιοχές της Αθηναϊκής Αγοράς με την βορειοδυτική πλευρά της κορυφής της Ακρόπολης. Η πρωτότυπη ράμπα ήταν φτιαγμένη από χώμα με τεράστιους τοίχους αντιστήριξης στα βόρεια και στα νότειά της. Η ράμπα, η οποία ως χωρικό στοιχείο έπαιξε σημαντικό ρόλο στο να μετατρέψει την Ακρόπολη από φεουδαρχικό οχυρό σε θρησκευτικό χώρο, επέτρεψε την ολότητα της πόλης να ανεβεί στην Ακρόπολη. Αν λάβουμε υπόψη μας ως αποδείξεις τις διασωθέντες αναπαραστάσεις της διαδρομής στην κορυφή, βλέπουμε ηλικιωμένους και πολύ νεαρά άτομα να προσχωρούν σε μια πορεία, η οποία συμπεριλαμβάνει ιππείς και ανθρώπους σε άμαξες. Η πλέον κατεστραμένη ράμπα αποτελεί μια σημαντική πτυχή της ιστορίας της Ακρόπολης, η οποία παραμένει αγνώστη δυνητικά σε όλους τους επισκέπτες στον χώρο. 

If Pikionis route positioned a nationalist figure within this robust ascent, a possible remade Acropolis ramp represents the reconstruction of a different, but no less historically constituted public. In contrast to nationalism or romantic athleticism, we see the ramp as a reconstruction of different subjects, of a commons yet to be fully configured – one evocative of the origins of Western concepts of urban citizenry, city space, architecture and its history, but which simultaneously refers to more recent concerns of self-hood.

Αν η πορεία του Πικιώνη έθεσε μια εθνικιστική τυπολογία μέσα αυτήν την ισχυρή άνοδο, μια πιθανή ανακατασκευή της ράμπας της Ακρόπολης αναπαριστά την ανασκευή ενός διαφορετικού, αλλά καθόλου λιγότερο ιστορικού κοινού. Σε αντίθεση με τον εθνικισμό ή τον ρομαντικό αθλητισμό, βλέπουμε την ράμπα ως μια ανακατασκευή διαφορετικών υποκειμένων, ενός κοινού σε αναμονή της πραγμάτωσής του – υπαινισσόμενου της προέλευσης Δυτικοκεντρικών ιδεών περί αστικής υπηκοότητας, αστικού χώρου, αρχιτεκτονικής και της ιστορίας της, αλλά η οποία την ίδια στιγμή αναφέρεται σε πιο πρόσφατους προβληματισμούς περί της κατηγορίας του υποκειμένου. 
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		<excerpt> Project Credits Concept, David Gissen Renderings, Victor Hadjikyriacou Greek translation, Olga Touloumi  The path to the summit of the Acropolis might be one of...</excerpt>

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		<title>Project: The Mound of Vendome</title>
				
		<link>http://davidgissen.org/Project-The-Mound-of-Vendome</link>

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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:49:07 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>David Gissen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Vendome Column, radical reconstruction, subnature, reconstruction, David Gissen]]></category>

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Before they toppled the column - a hated symbol of imperialism -, the Communards built the mound to cushion the street and surrounding buildings from the demolition's impact. Following the suppression of the Commune, the Vendôme Column was rebuilt in 1873. We hope the mound will be rebuilt in 2013. The project to reconstruct the mound consists of an image of a physical proposal (shown at left) and a petition to the Department of Heritage and Architecture for the City of Paris (included below). The petition further explains the purpose of the mound and the reasons why the Commune destroyed the column. 

The term radical reconstruction draws from the idea of radical history — generally, the history of politically radical social movements. A radical reconstruction relates to this tradition but further suggests the reawakening of radical historical thought through acts of architectural or urban reconstruction. 

The Mound of Vendôme project also positions radical reconstruction more specifically within traditions of  1970s land-art and mail-art. The contemporary collage image was made along with the petition, which explains the project more fully and its ambitions. The historical images that follow the collage image provide more contextual background on the situation of the Vendome Column, the mound, and the Paris Commune.

PETITION
DATE: February 18, 2012
TO: Mr. Jacques Monthioux,
Director of Heritage and Architecture, City of Paris
FROM: David Gissen, Associate Professor, CCA
RE: Rebuild the Mound of Vendôme

In May of 1871, members of the Commune de Paris voted to destroy the Vendôme Column - a towering symbol of Napoleonic military might and triumph. In preparation for the demolition, the Communards built a mound of hay, sand, and urban detritus along the ground, directly in front of the column. The mound protected the windows and walls of the neighboring buildings from vibrations as the column was toppled and pulled to the ground.

Following the column’s reconstruction in 1873, various groups have called for the Vendôme Column to be destroyed again. But instead of destroying this rebuilt monument once more, we ask that another reconstruction join the reconstructed column: We, the undersigned, ask that the Mound of Vendôme be rebuilt in the plaza to commemorate the historical and radical events of 1871. The mound is a symbol of revolution and the column’s destruction, but it is also a symbol of the Communard’s interest in urban care, preservation, and the future of their city. It should be built again.

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PÉTITION
DATE : 18 Février 2012
Á : Mr. Jacques Monthioux,
Directeur du Patrimoine et de l’Architecture, La Ville de Paris
DE : David Gissen, Associate Professor, CCA
SUJET : Reconstuire le monticule de la Place Vendôme

En Mai 1871, les membres de la Commune de Paris ont voté de détruire la colonne Vendôme – un symbole dominant de la puissance et du triomphe militaire napoléonien. En préparation de la démolition, les Communards ont construit un monticule compose de foin, sable et de détritus urbains le long de la chaussée, juste en face de la colonne. Ce monticule a protégé les fenêtres et les murs des bâtiments voisins des vibrations dues a la demolition de la colonne.

Après la reconstruction de la colonne en 1873, plusieurs groupes  de diverses tendances ont demandé a nouveau de mettre a bas la colonne Vendôme. Mais au lieu de re-détruire ce monument qui vient d’etre remonte, nous demandons, simplement, que le monticule soit restore. Nous, les soussignés, demandons que le monticule de Vendôme soit reconstruit sur la place pour commémorer les événements radicaux historiques de 1871. La butte est un symbole de la révolution et de la destruction de la colonne, mais elle est aussi un symbole des valeurs du Communard en matière de soin urbain, la préservation et l’avenir de leur ville. Cette monticule devrait être construite à nouveau. *

*Translation, Alix Daguin</description>
		
		<excerpt> The Mound of Vendôme (2012) is a project exploring a radical reconstruction of a heap of dirt built by the Commune de Paris in 1871 in front of the Vendôme...</excerpt>

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		<title>Essay: Marathon</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:59:07 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>David Gissen</dc:creator>
		
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co-written with historian and artist, Rachel Schreiber
for the Volume special bootleg issue of Urban China magazine.

Marathon (pdf)

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		<excerpt> co-written with historian and artist, Rachel Schreiber for the Volume special bootleg issue of Urban China magazine.  Marathon (pdf)  </excerpt>

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		<title>Curation: Anxious Climate: Architecture at the Edge of Environment</title>
				
		<link>http://davidgissen.org/Curation-Anxious-Climate-Architecture-at-the-Edge-of-Environment</link>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:41:41 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>David Gissen</dc:creator>
		
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A 2006-07 exhibition on European architecture engaged with a radical conception of nature .

Read the exhibition brochure (pdf)

Staged at The California College of the Arts, University of Minnesota Architecture Gallery, the Maryland Institute College of the Arts and Pennsylvania State University.</description>
		
		<excerpt> A 2006-07 exhibition on European architecture engaged with a radical conception of nature .  Read the exhibition brochure (pdf)  Staged at The California College...</excerpt>

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		<title>Interview: How Wine Became Metropolitan</title>
				
		<link>http://davidgissen.org/Interview-How-Wine-Became-Metropolitan</link>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:33:12 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>David Gissen</dc:creator>
		
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interview by Nicolai Twilley: on the concept of terroir, senses of dirt, and the urban nature and history of wine.</description>
		
		<excerpt> interview by Nicolai Twilley: on the concept of terroir, senses of dirt, and the urban nature and history of wine.</excerpt>

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		<title>Exhibition: Landscape Futures</title>
				
		<link>http://davidgissen.org/Exhibition-Landscape-Futures</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:43:35 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>David Gissen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Landscape Futures, Museums of the City, Exhibitions]]></category>

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Museums of the City included in the exhibition:

Landscape Futures 
Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions

August 13, 2011 - February 12, 2012
Contemporary Gallery, Nevada Museum of Art

From the curator, Geoff Manaugh:

"Landscape Futures explores how planetary landscapes, and our perceptions of them, can be utterly transformed by technology and design. Specifically, it will investigate the shifting terrains of architectural invention, where the construction of new spatial devices on a variety of scales, from the inhabitable to the portable, can uncover previously inaccessible aspects of the built and natural environments. The devices on display—and the traces they reveal—will thus demonstrate that the landscape around us is like sheet music: an interpretive repository of bewildering variation that can be captured and made visible (even audible) through the perceptual instruments and recording devices that we invent.

The exhibition features commissioned works by David Benjamin &#38; Soo-in Yang (The Living), Mark Smout &#38; Laura Allen (Smout Allen), David Gissen, Mason White &#38; Lola Sheppard (Lateral Office), Chris Woebken &#38; Kenichi Okada, and Liam Young.

The exhibition will be an extraordinary mix of large-scale installations, technical prototypes, wall-sized graphics, and portable devices, each of which will provide visitors with unexpected access to the invisible—and often fantastical—streams of data constantly generated by the landscapes around us. In the process, this group exhibition will reveal the multitude of ways through which landscapes can be read, cataloged, interpreted, and understood; but it will also ask questions. How, for instance, can these and other future tools be imagined, designed, and materially implemented? What potential uses might be found for something that alters how we see, read, and understand our surroundings?."</description>
		
		<excerpt> Museums of the City included in the exhibition:  Landscape Futures  Instruments, Devices and Architectural Inventions  August 13, 2011 - February 12, 2012...</excerpt>

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		<title>Essay: Architecture's Geographic Turns</title>
				
		<link>http://davidgissen.org/Essay-Architecture-s-Geographic-Turns</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:26:23 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>David Gissen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[]]></category>

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Architecture's Geographic Turns (pdf)
Log 12, 2008</description>
		
		<excerpt> Architecture's Geographic Turns (pdf) Log 12, 2008</excerpt>

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		<title>Essay: Debris</title>
				
		<link>http://davidgissen.org/Essay-Debris</link>

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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:21:53 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>David Gissen</dc:creator>
		
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Debris (pdf)
for AA Files 58
Journal of the Architectural Association, London</description>
		
		<excerpt> Debris (pdf) for AA Files 58 Journal of the Architectural Association, London</excerpt>

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		<title>Essay: Energy Histories</title>
				
		<link>http://davidgissen.org/Essay-Energy-Histories</link>

		<comments>http://davidgissen.org/following/davidgissen.org/Essay-Energy-Histories</comments>

		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:13:19 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>David Gissen</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[]]></category>

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		<description>&#60;img src="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/177630/2447099/energies_500.jpg" width="500" height="516" width_o="1659" height_o="1713" src_o="http://payload7.cargocollective.com/1/5/177630/2447099/energies_o.jpg" data-mid="12329962"  border="0" align="left"/&#62;
Commissioned Essay
Energy Histories (pdf)
in AD Energies: New Material Boundaries
Sean Lally, editor</description>
		
		<excerpt> Commissioned Essay Energy Histories (pdf) in AD Energies: New Material Boundaries Sean Lally, editor</excerpt>

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