{"id":110,"date":"2004-05-13T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2004-05-13T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=110"},"modified":"2004-05-13T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2004-05-13T23:46:13","slug":"incidental-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Incidental Insight."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Times<\/i> has a piece on the status of the US Embassy in Berlin (apparently the plan to hire Jeff Koons to make a humongous stainless steel &#8216;Surrender Monkey&#8217; fell through). This is not a &#8216;local&#8217; story, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/13\/international\/europe\/13emba.html\">accompanying photo<\/a> provides a good in-progress view of the Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which was designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/eisenmanarchitects.com\/\">Peter Eisenman<\/a>. Eisenman&#8217;s weakness has always been too much of a gap between drawing and form (or, sometimes, a too literal transformation). Though I&#8217;m in no position to judge, and indeed don&#8217;t even necessarily have a negative conclusion to present, it is an interesting image to see after all these years of wireframe CAD renderings projected at a much lower angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times has a piece on the status of the US Embassy in Berlin (apparently the plan to hire Jeff Koons to make a humongous stainless steel &#8216;Surrender Monkey&#8217; fell through). This is not a &#8216;local&#8217; story, but the accompanying photo provides a good in-progress view of the Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}