The University of Kentucky College of Design has posted a video of Wednesday's lecture by Robert Somol, director of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture. Steven Ward, who attended the lecture, compared some of Somol's discussion with Bernard Colenbrander's recently posted critique of contemporary architecture criticism. It's a long video, so I recommend you bookmark it for some downtime this weekend. Once you get past the first few minutes of bad jokes it's a really great presentation.
The University of Kentucky College of Design has posted a video of Wednesday's lecture by Robert Somol, director of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture. Steven Ward, who attended the lecture, compared some of Somol's discussion with Bernard Colenbrander's recently posted critique of contemporary architecture criticism. It's a long video, so I recommend you bookmark it for some downtime this weekend. Once you get past the first few minutes of bad jokes it's a really great presentation. Watch
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Really happy to see this sort of thing. Every lecture I've been to over the past 6-7 years has been taped. This is the first time I've seen a lecture posted online. Where do all the tapes go? I know that Vimeo allows for 1GB uploads so there really isn't any excuse.
Kentucky has been posting almost all lately. Check 'em at uky.edu/design.
GSAPP recently started posting their lecture series on itunes! Its great just keyword gsap. Nothing better than to load a lecture to enjoy while on travel or subway ride.
i highly recommend this lecture.
perhaps somol has read some of my past comments on archinect about the state of architecture 'critical-ity' in chicago and particularly the chicago tribune[i have been good and backed off!].
he is selling the Ph.D. on criticism and knocks the east coast chatter and specifically Wigley - but in the same breath his primary examples are Koolhaas - a bit of a contradiction there -
Volume, with wigley as one of the head does more than anything somol can hope for - it seems his discourse as his writing follows a genre of casual sarcasm -- the first issue of aX with 'talk is cheap' is no better than the metaphors he believes we should run from.
his comments on the pavilions are redeeming are well said.
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