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> From: Met History [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 2:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: [BP] carnegie Opus
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> Whereas, a ground-up aluminum siding building - or even, DARE
> I SAY IT, VINYL SIDING BUILDING - has the potential to
> provoke, amuse, entertain, enliven, particularly if it is not
> phony-something else, e.g. aluminum "clapboards".
Well, hell, you need to learn to write more clearly! I had to read this
several times before I realized you weren't talking about hamburger, you
were talking about new construction. When it is the authentic, original
material, I don't have a problem with folks using aluminum siding, or
even vinyl siding (though I'm pretty sure Ralph would put everyone of
them through the grinder, but he's a Clem Labine classicism purist),
even though I would never use it because I think it's cheesy cheap crap.
I don't disagree with you that it is indeed amusing in a laughable way.
But I (and I think the corporal BP "we," or at least me and Ralph) have
been disagreeing with you in its use on an existing historic building,
especially Carnegie libraries in NYC.
> Hence the observations that:
>
> 1. Palladio would have thought aluminum as a facade material
> was pretty cool
Perhaps in the hands of a master. But I would vouchsafe that most of
your contemporary siding materials are not handled today with a
reverence for Palladio's touchstones.
> 2. And we might agree with him if we could
> see it in a "ground up" situation, where it was not imitating
> something else.
We might. Show me.
Mr. Impure Thoughts
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