2015.03.18 19:16
Rem praises Dubai for its sophistication
The article contains only two direct quotes from Koolhaas:
"Dubai has escaped from its architectural caricatures.”
“There’s a great evidence of sophistication and an emergence of local architects that recognise authenticity."
Both of these quotes are provocative, and, I imagine, have more to them. Nonetheless, it wouldn't be like Koolhaas to say these things if he didn't believe them to be true.
2015.03.18 19:40
Rem praises Dubai for its sophistication
Can you name any examples where Koolhaas said or wrote something that he didn't believe was true?
I've heard Koolhaas speak once in person and many times online, and read a good bit of his texts, and I can't say that there's duplicity or even ambiguity in any of it.
2015.03.19 11:30
Did any of you AIA lovers see this?
It seems counter-intuitive for Shubow to conclude with:
Another complaint—more severe—regards the organization’s ideological lockstep, its moribund opposition to diversity. The AIA is dominated by a Modernist orthodoxy hostile toward traditional and classical architecture and urbanism. You can flip through years of back issues of Architect magazine, the AIA’s flagship publication, without being able to find a single example of traditional architecture being highlighted. The publication is all about the fashionable, the glitzy, and the experimental—of empty, “daring” innovation and technomania. You would never know that traditional architecture is in the midst of a renaissance. You would never know that many young members of the creative class choose to live and work in historic urban neighborhoods. You would never know about the Institute for Classical Architecture and Art; the American College of the Building Arts; the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU); or the exciting new CARTA Center for Advanced Research in Traditional Architecture at the University of Colorado Denver.
Why did he spend the article attacking the AIA and certain famous architects and the buildings instead of spending the whole article about "Institute for Classical Architecture and Art; the American College of the Building Arts; the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU); or the exciting new CARTA Center for Advanced Research in Traditional Architecture at the University of Colorado Denver?"
In other words, why is Shubow complaining about the AIA not doing what he is not doing himself?
Perhaps, though, the real mission of the "Institute for Classical Architecture and Art; the American College of the Building Arts; the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU); or the exciting new CARTA Center for Advanced Research in Traditional Architecture at the University of Colorado Denver" is the triumph of their own monoculture.
2015.03.19 11:49
An Urban Treehouse That Absorbs Pollution
I'm not too sure about the "incredibly practical" part. Where virtually all my neighbors have yards entirely of lawn, I have a full-fledged garden--a blue spruce, lots of different bushes and lots of different perennials and various ground covers--with no grass at all. As much as I love it, it's much more intense maintenance than merely cutting the lawn. Seeing all those bushes right in the building, well, I know for sure those plants don't clean up after themselves, and, (you find out for yourself soon enough) plants continually grow, if not actually grow like crazy. And let's not even start thinking about all the roots and what they might be doing--what you can't see won't hurt you, right?
2015.03.20 20:36
Duplitecture and the Downfall of Rep. Aaron Schock
Regarding Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China, perhaps google search 'reenactionary architecturism'
2015.03.20 20:49
Duplitecture and the Downfall of Rep. Aaron Schock
Or you could just start here.
You know, Quondam, a virtual museum of architecture, has been part of internet culture since 21 November 1996.
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2015.03.20 21:03
"Kant is a moron" graffitied on the philosopher's home
When Kant lived there it was Königsberg, East Prussia. The Soviet Union took East Prussia after World War II. Then, after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the subsequent German reunification, Germany decided against taking East Prussia back, I imagine because there are no more Germans living there. It's a strange little Russian outpost now that apparently still looks German.
2015.03.21 14:01
Did any of you AIA lovers see this?
In terms of today's design and construction practice, can you provide an example of "faux-paint[ing] something to look like something else"? Do you mean like this:?
2015.03.21 15:53
Traditional or Modernism
I'll take the modern interior with the traditional furniture. That ceiling and those side vaults in the traditional space are really poor design.
2015.03.21 21:18
Traditional or Modernism
This is the look I'm trying to achieve for my house:
The walls and floor and ceiling and furniture are easy, it's just that getting all the living-color life-size sculpture pieces within the room just right is proving to be a lot more difficult than I thought.
Classic, right?
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2015.03.22 09:54
21 March
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