TY - CHAP
T1 - Sam Rodia's Watts Towers in Six Sections in Succession
AU - Harris, Paul
PY - 2014/6
Y1 - 2014/6
N2 - This chapter offers a conceptual and creative interpretation of Rodia's work, replacing critical analysis with a form of “creative synthesis” that answers the question: “How can an architectural work like Rodia's Watts Towers dictate structural constraints for a written work?” To emulate the Watts Towers, which integrates heterogeneous materials into a coherent structure, the chapter is composed of six discrete sections that merge into a continuous whole. As tribute to Rodia's masterpiece, a poem entitled “Sam's Ark: An LA Landmark” is also presented. The poem is written under the constraint that A is the only vowel used to correspond to the structural frame of Rodia's Towers.
AB - This chapter offers a conceptual and creative interpretation of Rodia's work, replacing critical analysis with a form of “creative synthesis” that answers the question: “How can an architectural work like Rodia's Watts Towers dictate structural constraints for a written work?” To emulate the Watts Towers, which integrates heterogeneous materials into a coherent structure, the chapter is composed of six discrete sections that merge into a continuous whole. As tribute to Rodia's masterpiece, a poem entitled “Sam's Ark: An LA Landmark” is also presented. The poem is written under the constraint that A is the only vowel used to correspond to the structural frame of Rodia's Towers.
U2 - 10.5422/fordham/9780823257966.001.0001
DO - 10.5422/fordham/9780823257966.001.0001
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9780823257966
T3 - Critical Studies in Italian America
SP - 79
EP - 89
BT - Sabato Rodia's Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development
PB - Fordham University Press
ER -