Soapbox is a weekly series delivering a curated set of lectures, talks and symposia concerning contemporary themes but explored through the archives of lectures past and present. With the plethora of lectures, talks, symposia and panels occurring world wide on a daily basis, how can we begin to keep up and if not, find them once they are gone? Soapbox looks to assemble a selection of recent, archived and outlier lectures surrounding a given theme. Soapbox looks to curate this never-ending library of ideas into an engaging and diverse list of thoughts and provocations. Soapbox is just that, a collection aimed at discovering the occasional needle in a haystack.
1. American Architecture Now: Philip Johnson
2. American Architecture Now: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, 1984
3. American Architecture Now: Frank Gehry, 1980
4. American Architecture Now: Peter Eisenman and Jack Robertson
5. American Architecture Now: I.M. Pei
6. American Architecture Now: Louise Nevelson, Diana MacKown
Anthony Morey is a Los Angeles based designer, curator, educator, and lecturer of experimental methods of art, design and architectural biases. Morey concentrates in the formulation and fostering of new modes of disciplinary engagement, public dissemination, and cultural cultivation. Morey is the ...
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This series of interviews with Barbara Lee Diamonstein is an utterly fantastic time capsule into a fascinating moment of architecture. It is unique period of intellectual and pedagogical open-mindedness (Eisenman and Robertson in parnership??! Would you have ever thought that?) that one unfortunately does not see today.
While this period did not produce the most exciting buildings, the discussions of this transitional period are thoughtful and insightful as they recognize the shortcomings of modernism, the kitsch of Post Modernism, and express an optimism for the future that does not rely on the crutch of the computer, but on the merit of ideas, craft, and knowledge.
I recommend adding the interviews with Stanley Tigerman, Hugh Jacobsen, and Robert Stern as well.
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