September 21, 2007: The New Cities Grow thread, initiated by lletdownl, provokes as many questions as it asks. Can hyper-accelerated growth produce a city worth living in? Devoid, for the moment, of the accretion of human agency conferred only by time, can Dubai’s apotheosis be bought instead? I doubt this is the last we’ve seen of this thread.
September 17, 2007: BHL suggests Sarkozy is a man with “no inner core”; memory-greedy, opportunistic and cynical. Gopnik is similarly skeptical about Sarko’s brand of audacity. What then are we to make of Orhan’s news item? Perhaps this podcast featuring Dominique Perrault will provide a few insights.
September 16, 2007: Corporate malfeasance on parade in the media is a waning spectacle but our market economy will invariably provoke smaller ethical challenges that strain our patience and resolve. Notions of loyalty and integrity, as well as the rudiments of professional conduct and intern satisfaction are explored in quizzical’s forum thread. This “employer” perspective was compelling enough to draw the attention of a former lurker who initiated his own thread in response – putting forth the “employee” perspective. The two should be fused for the archive.
N.B.
Archinect humour, to my mind, evokes Rabelais: Scatological, irreverent, salacious, inane, caustic, sarcastic, impudent, arcane! Love it or loathe it, you’d be hard pressed to find as inscrutable an architectural forum as this one anywhere else on the web. Long live its unfettered and ineffable “deep play.”
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I love that Deep Play reference, JB, thank you for posting it (and I agree re: its relevance to Archinect!).
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