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Architectural
Power
of
Cheese
Marco Frascari
29 Sept 2008
Presented by DiVino Wine Studio
&
ORSA for Architecture Week:
CONSCIOUSNESS & ARCHITECTURE
the merging of the arts of thinking well, building well, living well
AND
EATING WELL
To introduce my LECTURE I will paraphrase a famous illustraLon
of the problem of consciousness done by the. NeuroscienLst, Sir
Charles Sherrington, Nobel Prize in 1932.
The light reflected by an architrave enters the eye, causes a
series of electrical and chemical steps and finally produces a few
effects at the top of the brain ... there succeeded the change ...
wholly inexplicable. Each of us consciously see the architrave.
This seeing is something subjecLve, totally different from the
objecLve physical process that precede and accompany it. This in
a nutshell is the problem of consciousness‐‐the world knot.
My QUEST is how architectural ma\er becomes imaginaLon, in
other words how everyday sights, smells and sounds embedded
by the built environment can selecLvely ignite or modify goals or
moLves that people already have.
PotenLal neurologists, architects are those who through their
drawings and conceiving of buildings carry on invesLgaLons and
assessments of architectural thinking. Without become
aquaLnted with neurology, they make us to think architecture
with our bodies, but also to think our bodies through
architecture.
By working and reworking plans, secLons, elevaLons and
building details unLl it please them, i.e. please their brains, they
have produced building that make others to think.
Without knowing anything about human neural organizaLon
architects are contribuLng to the evoluLon of human
consciousness.
THE OTHER POTENTIAL NEUROLOGIST ARE COOKS AND
GARDENERS
VI
One can become a cook, but one is born a rotissier
Brillat de Savarin
“You can become an engineer, but you
are born architect.”
Auguste Perret
.
By focusing on architecture and cuisine, inherently
mulLsensory experiences, my aim is to present what
are hints of the neural pa\erns of cogniLve thoughts
detectable in architecture.
By delving in issues such as ambiguity of material
meanings, metaphorical explanaLons, feelings, and
sensory embodiments, my hope is to challenge the
theoreLcal scenes of architecture and urbanism that
during the last forty years have disregarded
consciousness embodiment and the embedment in
econiches with a consequent loss of the merging of the
art of living well, building well and thinking well.
They woulde make men beleue ...
that ye Moone is made of grene chese
• During the 1980's, the
astronomers Margaret
Geller and John Huchra and
others showed that the
clusters of galaxies
themselves tend to form in
sheet or wall‐like pa\erns
that enclose empty regions
(holes) measuring across
hundreds of millions of
parsecs. This Gruyere‐like
structure is too "common"
to be a mere chance in the
arrangement of clusters
ANAGOGE or
ANAGOGY (AN‐uh‐go‐jee)
• A medieval couplet a disLch
of
AugusLne of Dacia:
• "Li,era gesta docet, quid
credas allegoria, Moralis
quid agas, quo tendas
anagogia."
(The le\er teaches the facts,
allegory what to believe,
morals teach how to act,
anagogy where you will go.)
the Mikimoto building in Ginza is a
creaLon of Toyo Ito.
Fontainbleau Hotel, Miami Beach
Morris Lapidus 1954
The Cheese and the Worms
Carlo Ginzburg
• Menocchio account of the
origin of the world was that,
"All was chaos, earth, air,
water and fire were mixed
together; and out of that
bulk a mass formed ‐ and
just as cheese is made out
of milk, worms appearing in
it, these were the angels.”
SLlton & Very Rev. Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson
the New Belfry of Christ Church in Oxford
I want to tell you of beautiful
houses,
the walls are of Parmesan cheese
and whitewashed with ricotta.
Anonimo Romano 12th Century
. olive oil
Principle of
subsLtuLon
Zabaglione
PRO‐PORTIONS
• The zabaglione (in • beat 1 egg yolk and 2
Piedmont’s dialect: 'L teaspoons full of sugar unLl
Sanbajon) is the king of the mixture becomes pale
desserts. Fra' Pasquale de yellow tending towards
Baylon (1540‐1592), of the white, then slowly add in 2
Third Order of Franciscans, eggshells of Marsala wine
and pour the mixture in a
used to suggest to his double boiler (the alchemic
penitents (especially to bain‐marie) over a low
those complaining about flame. ConLnue whisking
the frigidity of the spouse) a using a hand mixer; do not
therapeuLc recipe for a let it reach a boil, but
sweet culinary concocLon remove it from the fire as
which, summarized in the soon as it thickens. Let the
alchemic mathesis of mixture cool to merely
warm; then fold in 1 egg
1+2+2+1 white beaten to a peak
tubes of ducLle copper, a li\le thicker than a pastry cook
frying pan, luLng the joints with flour paste.
Miriam or Mary the Prophetess .
Scrambled eggs
• The recipe of the scramble eggs served to James
Bond and friends in The Edwardian Room at The
Plaza Hotel.
• Based on the instrucLon of Bond’s American
friend Felix Leiter the recipe requires for four
persons: 12 fresh eggs; salt and pepper; 6 oz. of
fresh bu\er.
• Aner breaking the eggs into a bowl, beat
thoroughly with a fork and season properly. Melt
4 oz. of the bu\er in a small heavy bo\omed
copper saucepan. When melted, pour in the
beaten eggs and cook over a very low heat,
beaLng constantly with a small eggbeater. While
the eggs are a li\le runnier than you would wish
for eaLng, remove the pan from heat, fold in the
remaining bu\er and conLnue sLrring for half a
minute, adding finely chopped chives or other
fines herbs. Dish up the scramble eggs on top of
hot bu\ered toast in copper dishes and serve with
pink champagne (TaiKnger) with a low music in the
background.
Architecture of spoils and cuisine of lenover
John Soane’s PasLccio
LA FINE