"I wonder if the Bilbao Guggenheim is a work of architecture at all?" - JG Ballard probes the larval stage of a new kind of architecture in The Guardian.
Hmmm,
"Stay outside it, at a distance of about one hundred yards, and you will absorb all its audacity, magic, good humour and genius. And its infantilising charm. This is Disneyland for the media studies PhD."
As Ballard himself questions later in the article, can an object be architecture if it's inside is irrelevant? Isn't interiority a vital characteristic of architecture? The play of spatial voids?
I don't know, certainly an interesting critique of the building....
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Hmmm,
"Stay outside it, at a distance of about one hundred yards, and you will absorb all its audacity, magic, good humour and genius. And its infantilising charm. This is Disneyland for the media studies PhD."
As Ballard himself questions later in the article, can an object be architecture if it's inside is irrelevant? Isn't interiority a vital characteristic of architecture? The play of spatial voids?
I don't know, certainly an interesting critique of the building....
check if its finished with lead paint from China
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