2015.09.29 12:08
LA's redesigned Petersen Automotive Museum: so bad the public will love it?
2015.05.08 12:42
Architecture Critic Mark Lamster: "We systemically encourage bad building."
Don't just embrace the junk, make it junkier!
that's exactly accelerationism!
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2015.09.29 16:59
LA's redesigned Petersen Automotive Museum: so bad the public will love it?
Aero-dynamic car design is basically the index of friction reduction. Older stream-line styling is basically the index of mass reduction due to high-speed friction. An automotive museum designed "aero-dynamically" would be an icon, and a stream-line style automotive museum would act more as a symbol. The Petersen Automotive Museum is basically the index of a large mass zooming by at high speed.
2015.09.29 20:51
Herzog & de Meuron's concept for new Vancouver Art Gallery released
Damn! I was so sure it was gonna look like this:
[virtual] Museum Museum 2013.08.29
Herzog & de Meuron New Art Gallery Vancouver
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2015.09.29 21:02
LA's redesigned Petersen Automotive Museum: so bad the public will love it?
As posted above, KPF stated on their website that, "the steel 'ribbons' evoke a sense of speed and movement." The ribbons evoke the movement that would be caused by air turbulence created by a large mass zooming by at high speed.
2015.09.30 10:25
LA's redesigned Petersen Automotive Museum: so bad the public will love it?
The Icon is that kind of sign that is most like its object--"a sign which stands for its object because as a thing perceived it excites an idea naturally allied to the idea that object would excite." Most icons are indeed likenesses. ... An Index, by contrast, holds no resemblance to its object, it simply points to it: "An index stands for its object by virtue of a real connection with it, or because it forces the mind to attend to that object." --Vidler/Pierce
The object of the Petersen Automotive Museum "ribbons" is to "evoke a sense of speed and movement." Ribbons do not move on their own, yet they are perfect indices of air movement, especially of air moving at high speed.
It seems KPF took a sophisticated indexical approach to "evoke a sense of speed and movement" rather than a simplistic iconic approach to "evoke a sense of speed and movement" by being a likeness to an aero-dynamically designed auto body (which would actually more evoke a sense of friction reduction so the building can then move faster[!?]).
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