WAI Architecture Think Tank upcoming publication Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture (August 2013) is featured on Artifice Books on Architecture Autumn 2013 Catalog. The Catalog can be downloaded here. Pure Hardcore Icons summary: In the kingdom of... View full entry »
hard–core adj \-ˈkȯr\ 1: a : of, relating to, or being part of a hard core 2: of pornography : containing explicit descriptions of sex acts or scenes of actual sex acts 3: characterized by or being the purest or most basic form of something Modernism Modern Architecture was a... View full entry »
"There is a backlash," says Gehry, now aged 82, "against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling", that is "self-righteous" and "annoying… The notion is that it is counterproductive to social responsibility and sustainability. Therefore, curving the wall or doing something so-called wilful is wrong and so there is a tendency back to bland." — guardian.co.uk
Also make sure to check out the heated debate going on in Driehaus and Krier do battle against Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial design View full entry »
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