City of Sound visits Linked Hybrid by Steven Holl Architects

2011-04-11T13:15:00-04:00

Linked Hybrid is designed with the clear intent of carving public space out of "monofunctional" private housing — and formally constructed in porous fashion to signal and direct this — yet the social and cultural patterns which overlay, occupy and appropriate the built form deny this idea entirely. This is most obvious in the form of gun-toting guards; more subtle again in the expensive furniture shops that dominate the ground-plane.

After visiting Holl's super-structure Hill was struck by the difference between the intended urban porosity in terms the architectural design and the reality of the tension between public/private development in contemporary Beijing.

Review: The Best Lecture Times by Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels

2011-03-10T12:56:00-05:00

Lovedog bites the Pragmatic Utopia: "AMBIGUITY"

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"HEDONISTIC SUSTAINABILITY" with white on black slogan slides as presented. Superficial review of Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels lectures in Los Angeles.

"AMBIGUITY" by Steven Holl

Date and place:
3/2/2011, SCI Arc, Los Angeles

Main Material:
Lecture built around meaning of "ambiguity" in the works of the architect. Large scale mixed use projects in China.
Queens Library in New York, museums, watercolor drawings, concept diagrams, architect's own photos of finished projects with construction slides. Show and tell format. Reading from a text.

Crowd:
Students, 30 and 40 somethings, older ladies and gentlemen, in all equal amounts.

Sense of Humor:
Negligible, except audience laughed in an in the know moment when Holl showed a picture of himself with Thom Mayne wearing hard hats touring Holl's construction site in China.

Relevancy to what's going on (based on global poverty ranking in relation to his clients):
None.

Best moments:
Cantilevered product...

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City of Sound visits Linked Hybrid by Steven Holl Architects

Review: The Best Lecture Times by Steven Holl and Bjarke Ingels