Stalking John Portman

Rice, CE

Stalking John Portman

Rice, CE

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Publisher:: The Architectural Association
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: AA Files: annals of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, 2012, (64), pp. 21 - 29
Issue Date:: 2012-04-01

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dc.contributor.author	Rice, CE https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3726-9068	en_US
dc.date.issued	2012-04-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	AA Files: annals of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, 2012, (64), pp. 21 - 29	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0261-6823	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/37860
dc.description.abstract	Around seven years after its completion, John Portman’s Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles became famous – in theory. For it was here, struggling actually to enter the building, and then having further difficulty locating the check-in desk, that Fredric Jameson had a revelation. Regarding the Bonaventure’s vast atrium, he was moved to pronounce: this latest mutation in space – postmodern hyperspace – has finally succeeded in transcending the capacities of the individual human body to locate itself, to organise its immediate surroundings perceptually, and cognitively to map its position in a mappable external world. It may now be suggested that this alarming disjunction point between the body and its built environment – which is to the initial bewilderment of the older modernism as the velocities of spacecraft to those of the automobile – can itself stand as the symbol and analogon of that even sharper dilemma, which is the incapacity of our minds, at least at present, to map the great global multinational and decentered communication network in which we find ourselves caught as individual subjects."	en_US
dc.publisher	The Architectural Association	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	AA Files: annals of the Architectural Association School of Architecture	en_US
dc.title	Stalking John Portman	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	64	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
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Abstract:

Around seven years after its completion, John Portman’s Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles became famous – in theory. For it was here, struggling actually to enter the building, and then having further difficulty locating the check-in desk, that Fredric Jameson had a revelation. Regarding the Bonaventure’s vast atrium, he was moved to pronounce: this latest mutation in space – postmodern hyperspace – has finally succeeded in transcending the capacities of the individual human body to locate itself, to organise its immediate surroundings perceptually, and cognitively to map its position in a mappable external world. It may now be suggested that this alarming disjunction point between the body and its built environment – which is to the initial bewilderment of the older modernism as the velocities of spacecraft to those of the automobile – can itself stand as the symbol and analogon of that even sharper dilemma, which is the incapacity of our minds, at least at present, to map the great global multinational and decentered communication network in which we find ourselves caught as individual subjects."

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