{"id":1318,"date":"2008-08-22T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2008-11-17T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T20:51:19","slug":"the-power-of-pure-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1318","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Pure Thought."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carusostjohn.com\/artscouncil\/paradigms\/library\/index.html\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Kahn made it happen\u2026\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/paradigms_library_kahn.jpg\" title=\"Kahn made it happen\u2026\" alt=\"Kahn made it happen\u2026\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carter Wiseman is president of the MacDowell Colony, in Peterborough NH, and teaches at the Yale School of Architecture. In June of 2007, I hosted him on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION.<\/p>\n<p>On the program, he spoke about two of his great passions: The Colony, and architect Louis Kahn, both on which he&#8217;d just finished books: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwnorton.com\/npb\/nparch\/073165.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style: A Life in Architecture<\/em><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~upne\/1-58465-609-3.html\"  target=\"_blank\"><em>A Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907-2007<\/em><\/a>. (Kahn&#8217;s<span class=\"artscouncil\"> \t\t    Philip Exeter Academy library, above, is, like Mac Dowell, in New Hampshire. It is his sole New England work.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kahn has long thrilled me, his buildings seemingly arising from undiluted conception. As a Mac Dowell fellow with a perverse interest in architecture\u2014I spent April and May of 2005 there, working my ever-slowly progressing book on architecture in computer and video games\u2014I was deeply and profoundly supported while answering the questions that necessarily bedevil creative work.<\/p>\n<p>I had a wonderful time speaking with Carter Wiseman, a gentle and great mind. You can hear him by tuning in at 2 pm. If you&#8217;re outside of the New York tri-state, you can check out <a href=\"http:\/\/stream.wbai.org\"  target=\"_blank\">our stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.wbai.org\/allshows.php\"  target=\"_blank\">our archive<\/a> for up to two weeks after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carter Wiseman is president of the MacDowell Colony, in Peterborough NH, and teaches at the Yale School of Architecture. In June of 2007, I hosted him on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION. On the program, he spoke about two of his great passions: The Colony, and architect Louis Kahn, both on which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,12,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}