05. Books

JEF7REY HILDNER | ARCHITECT · 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

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Books ♞ |  JEF7REY HILDNER | ARCHITECT — Q.F.B.   |  ARCHITECTURE IS A  VISION QUEST L EGACY LABYRINTH:  WORKING MAGIC “ What an astonishing thing a book is. . . .  one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. . . .  A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. ”  —Carl Sagan * "I MAKE NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BOOK AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PAINTING." ―HENRI MATISSE "To me, writing feels like painting .  Y ou prime the canvas with a few bold word-moves here and there then paint with freedom and verve and let it rip with stream of consciousness paint then paint over what you don’t like and paint some more in bold ways to discover what you do like, and you stay with it, balancing improvisation and craft on the bedrock of judgment as you see the canvas turn from blank to 'looks promising' to 'that isn’t so good' to 'maybe if I stay with that part there and run with that and keep going . . . '  Then—finally: 'Ah, hey, I kind of like it now. Yes! That’s what I had in mind!'       And all I did was   free the angel . "  —Jef7rey Hildner,  Metaphysical Warrior _______________________________________________________________________________________ F eatured in the viewer above:  front covers of 10 of my books  published by  The Architect Painter Press , which I launched in 2005  under the banner, "Live Brave."  The first slide shows my latest book:  a  tribute to Le Corbusier in honor of the centennial of his book, published in 1923,  Toward an Architecture . Disturbance showcases  visions of   Daedalus 9: The Labyrintheum — my dream house—inspired by the tragic yet heroic story of the mythical ancient Greek ​architect, inventor of the Labyrinth and Wings . . .    The myth of Daedalus also plays a central role in several of my other books, including  my 2022  avant-garde  sci-fi graphic AI   novel,  Call Me Daedalus , created by my alter ego Michelangelo A. Roland Slate , aka  M.A.R.S.   _______________________________________________________________________________________ V iew all of my books  on Internet Archive: Garches 1234 | Remembering the Mathematics of the Ideal Villa:                 An Essay on Le Corbusier's 1927 Villa de Monzie/Stein Picasso Lessons: The Sixth Woman of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon   Daedalus 9 | The Architect Painter [improv 1.0]  Misfitz Because: What Doesn't Belong—and Why? Mind Teasers!   Henry Trucks — Painter : ancient myths meet modern landscapes   Metaphysical Warrior: Meditations on the art & science of life   Visual Ef9ects | Architecture and the Chess Game of Form & Story Live Brave: A Tribute To Laura Middleton Call Me Daedalus: A Zi Novel   Toward An Architecture AI  |  2023   Disturbance :  Beyond The Matrix  |  Toward An Architecture ZI View my  Amazon author's bio _______________________________________________________________________________________ In addition to the books that I authored and designed, I have contributed in various ways to other books: Connective Tissues: Ten Essays by University of Virginia Kenan Fellows 2001-2016 , by Peter Waldman (2021). Epilogue, pp. 181-198: " LABYRINTH R.U.N. " Field Games , by Richard Rosa (forthcoming). See my Publisher's Foreword, " Magic Show . "  Architectural Formalism , by Hakan Anay (2012). “Formalism: Move | Meaning," pp. 51-56, Turkish translation of the essay first published in   84th ACSA Annual Meeting and Technology Conference Proceedings   (1996) , pp. 251-257. Hakan Anay selected my essay as one of four essays that he presents in his book. The other three were written by theorists Rosalind Krauss, Peggy Deamer, and Robert Slutzky & Colin Rowe. My essay appears in updated form ( minor refinements and legible illustrations)  in the Addendum,  pp. 705-737,  of  Visual Ef9ects . All-Nighter Writer: End Your Writing Nightmares , by Marilyn Jones (2011). Out of Print but currently viewable  here . I created the book's title and was the editor, designer, photographer, illustrator, and copublisher, as well as the web designer for the book's website,  all under the name  Eliot Plum . Remembrance and the Design of Place , by Frances Downing (2000). "Fact and Implication," Spatial Solitaire, Figure 20, p. 52. Cited, pp. 51, 108. "Fact and Implication; or, A 397-Word Reflection on an Unpremeditated Drawing," pp. 161-163. _______________________________________________________________________________________ "NEW VOCABULARY OPENS UP  NEW REALITIES ."  —MICHELANGELO A. ROLAND SLATE,  CALL ME DAEDALUS "WRITING IS A VISUAL ART.  A WRITER BUILDS A LIGHTHOUSE OF INSIGHTS  ON AN ISLAND OF ENCHANTMENT  THROUGH THE MAGIC ARCHITECTURE OF WORDS,  PIERCING THE FOG WITH THE BEAM OF TRUTH."  ― Michelangelo A. Roland Slate View my  Amazon author's bio _______________________________________________________________________________________ *Carl Sagan's full quote, which I include in my essay, " Magic Show . " “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of  funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.  "Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” _______________________________________________________________________________________ The Real Quest The quest is not to reach everyone. The quest is to reach the ones who recognize the truth— the Neos— wherever they are, across time and place. To place signals in the world that only certain minds can fully receive. . . . . . . . . . . . Books as: beacons coordinates architectural markers If I create them, the Neos will find them. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ To explore my entire Legacy Labyrinth — its major galleries, special worlds, and secret chambers — go to: Legacy Labyrinth: Doorway to the Stars Links HQ: Navigation | About   Internet Archive Home _______________________________________________________________________________________ JEF 7 REY HILDNER   | ARCHITECT