As destructively demonstrated in New Orleans the forgotten can and has a real, physical impact on the present. Pictured above, the now infamous barge which may have helped breach the levee.
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intransitive verb
1 : to form rust : become oxidized
2 : to degenerate especially from inaction, lack of use, or passage of time
"...most men would...have allowed their faculties to rust..." -T. B. Macaulay
3 : to become reddish brown as if with rust
transitive verb
1 : to cause (a metal) to form rust
"...keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them ..." -Shakespeare
2 : to impair or corrode by or as if by time, inactivity, or deleterious use
3 : to cause to become reddish brown : turn the color of rust
Rusting presents an guide to appreciating, measuring and perceiving time through the exploration and exposure of the built environment to the natural environment.
As one force struggles to slowly defend or attack the other. This struggle takes place on the largest and smallest of scales.
We can perceive this struggle, as it becomes a finite moment within a larger lifespan. This moment allows us to measure a material, in time as well as space. Our interaction, our act of realizing this gap will be referred to as a condition of rusting.
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Time, Memory, Decay
rust
Function: verbintransitive verb
1 : to form rust : become oxidized
2 : to degenerate especially from inaction, lack of use, or passage of time
"...most men would...have allowed their faculties to rust..." -T. B. Macaulay
3 : to become reddish brown as if with rust
transitive verb
1 : to cause (a metal) to form rust
"...keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them ..." -Shakespeare
2 : to impair or corrode by or as if by time, inactivity, or deleterious use
3 : to cause to become reddish brown : turn the color of rust
Rusting presents an guide to appreciating, measuring and perceiving time through the exploration and exposure of the built environment to the natural environment.
As one force struggles to slowly defend or attack the other. This struggle takes place on the largest and smallest of scales.
We can perceive this struggle, as it becomes a finite moment within a larger lifespan. This moment allows us to measure a material, in time as well as space. Our interaction, our act of realizing this gap will be referred to as a condition of rusting.
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- Andrew H.
- INEXARC aka International Experiments in Architecture is interested in resources for collecting, designing, and building experimental designs in a temperamental environment - believable or not.
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