2016.10.20 19:54
Tom Wiscombe redesigns the L.A. billboard (and is chosen over Zaha Hadid's proposal)
2000.08.24
the right direction (finally)
...a great title: Towards a New Product Placement, and this can very easily and literally be a catalogue of any art or anything else to sell. Yet, it can also be about predicting the nature of 21st century site analysis (or actually the lack thereof). In any case, commercialization is the key theme and motif (and pathos?). Alter captured TV commercials, billboards, bus ads, magazine ads. As much as it will be about commercialization, it is about digital manipulation. Is there something new to say about hypersurface? Is the subtitle “the future architecture of advertising”? or “the future advertising of architecture?”
I just thought/realized that every page of the book can be an advertisement, eg “this is an advertisement” as parody of the Venturi “this is a monument” (my Stanza AIA Bookstore ad idea). Tattoos as paid advertising, logo endorsement, wearing designer labels as a paying job (instead of doing essentially free advertising).
2016.10.22 19:48
Architectural Axiom/Statement Re-Writes
Every brick just wants to get laid. --Loose Icon
2016.10.23 12:09
Tom Wiscombe redesigns the L.A. billboard (and is chosen over Zaha Hadid's proposal)
I have to agree with your questions. It's just plain goofy, isn't it?
Now, if it was also a vending machine where you could actually purchase what was advertised, then the design/stance would make more sense.
  
"I'm turning Japanese! I really think so."*
*You know that lyric refers to masturbating, don't you?
2016.10.23 12:18
Tom Wiscombe redesigns the L.A. billboard (and is chosen over Zaha Hadid's proposal)
Or, better yet, the new 'billboard' could double as a homeless shelter!
image/inspiration: Olaf/Chris
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2016.10.23 13:50
Tom Wiscombe redesigns the L.A. billboard (and is chosen over Zaha Hadid's proposal)
      
Wandering through un-time and un-space?
Wait, what does the Rape of the Sabines have to do with any of this!?
"In the future, everything will be an advertisement." --Rita Novel
    
OR
"In the future, advertising will be in the eye of the beholder."
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2016.10.23 14:17
Tom Wiscombe redesigns the L.A. billboard (and is chosen over Zaha Hadid's proposal)
Interestingly, Blade Runner depicted Los Angeles in November 2019, and Blade Runner 2049 is set for release October 5, 2017. Too bad they probably won't be able to advertise the new movie the way things were advertised in the first movie. Or will they?
Actually, it'd be way cooler if they advertised the new movie the way things are advertised in the new movie!
"In the future, all advertisements will be spoiler alerts."
2016.10.23 21:53
Tom Wiscombe redesigns the L.A. billboard (and is chosen over Zaha Hadid's proposal)
"I looked at this and knew it was Tom Wiscombe immediately."
Does this suggest that the new billboard is too idiosyncratic in its design. Does such a specific design style actually work against the billboard's function, i.e., advertising Tom Wiscombe somewhat more than what the advertisements endorse? Maybe that's what doesn't quite sit right--the support system for the advertisements is calling too much attention to itself, where really only the advertisements should be calling for attention.
2016.10.25 21:48
Architectural Axiom/Statement Re-Writes
In the future, everyone will be large for fifteen minutes. --Andy Dandy
2016.10.29 20:23
The Philadelphia School, deterritorialized
Jan C. Rowen, “Wanting To Be: The Philadelphia School” (Progressive Architecture: April, 1961). The actual magazine article pages at 4001 and follows.
The article is very generous, in scope, layout and sentiment. Read in tandem with "Denise Scott Brown and Louis I. Kahn" one gets a somewhat deterritorialized view of the situation back then.
2016.10.31 12:01
Long derided by architects, Prince Charles' model town Poundbury might not be all that bad after all
"...the goals and ethics behind art and design culture."
Can anyone explain to me how these--the goals and ethics behind art and design culture--are nothing more than artificial parameters?
And, can anyone explain to me why I should actually care about the choices of others as to how they live or design their buildings?
2016.10.31 14:26
Long derided by architects, Prince Charles' model town Poundbury might not be all that bad after all
I don't care about culture and history as much as I observe it, and what I observe now is that we are in a time within history where culture comprises a nimiety of choices. The only reason that I can think of as to caring about what choices are made is if I were somehow going to profit from the choice(s) made. Since I'm not in the business of selling any cultural choices, I don't care what people choose.
If you really took my questions seriously, I strongly feel that the "goal and ethics" of art and design culture are more indicative of what one's trying to sell.
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2016.10.31 15:37
Long derided by architects, Prince Charles' model town Poundbury might not be all that bad after all
So, V., you're selling traditional exteriors with modern interior features. But, just because that's what you're selling doesn't mean Poundbury is fatally flawed.
2016.10.31 16:33
Long derided by architects, Prince Charles' model town Poundbury might not be all that bad after all
V., the truth of the matter is that I don't even have that choice, and I suspect you don't either.
By and large, people choose what they can best afford. As to modern houses (on the open market) there really aren't that many to choose from, and a custom home design is not what most can best afford. Moreover, choosing a custom home design does not necessarily mean choosing something modern.
Like I already wrote above, "we are in a time within history where culture comprises a nimiety of choices." Somehow trying to control people's art and design choices is actually counter-cultural.
2016.10.31 18:22
Long derided by architects, Prince Charles' model town Poundbury might not be all that bad after all
The issue of control is not with regard to your pick-one-over-the-other question.
If I pick one, that doesn't automatically mean that the one I don't pick is then fatally flawed. Just as, if the beautifully maintained classical Bath is much more attractive to most people, that doesn't automatically mean the traditional-modern (on the outside) hybrid Poundbury is then fatally flawed.
2016.10.31 18:27
Long derided by architects, Prince Charles' model town Poundbury might not be all that bad after all
E., if Bath is your "in a heartbeat" choice, then why aren't you living there?
2016.10.31 19:14
Long derided by architects, Prince Charles' model town Poundbury might not be all that bad after all
So, E., essentially you want something even though you can't have it. This is just one example of why I don't see the need to care about what choices people make, because in this case your choice is meaningless.
Mind you, most people do want what they can't have, and maybe that's why most people don't what modern. Ha!
2016.10.31 20:48
Long derided by architects, Prince Charles' model town Poundbury might not be all that bad after all
D., you've misquoted me. I wrote, and allow me to fix a typo, "Mind you, most people do want what they can't have, and maybe that's why most people don't want modern. Ha!" This is a glib (hence the Ha!) response to the general question above "what I'm perplexed by is that "common people" love their iPhones and Teslas and wicking activewear but somehow get scared around buildings that don't look "cozy"." Remember, I don't see any reason to care what people choose, and I don't see any reason to care how many more people choose one thing over another. What I do care about is that the "goal and ethics" of art and design culture are more indicative of what one's trying to sell, and that somehow trying to control people's art and design choices is actually counter-cultural.
E., no trap. Like you just wrote, your actual choice is LA.
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