Peter Marino looks back on some harsh influences and early lessons

2022-06-29T11:59:00-04:00

Marino spoke to artist Rashid Johnson for Interview at length about his early client, the magazine's founder Andy Warhol, as well as a host of other topics, including his art collection, time at Cornell, and what he sees as the gradual evolution of pop art’s influence into the works of contemporaries like Michael Graves.

“I think some of Graves’s work is very good, but as an architectural movement, it’s very mannerist. It’s one person’s interpretation. Pop art shaded him, and I was always a bit terrified of the postmodern movement. I thought Venturi, Scott Brown [and Associates] did good work, but I think it’s fair to describe it as a niche section in the field.”

Previously on Archinect: Check out these quotes from Peter Marino's '60 Minutes' episode

The famed retail designer also recalled his early days in the offices of Nelson and SOM, reacting to changes in the city’s architectural palette that he found aberrant and blamed squarely on dramatic post-war shifts in design education ...

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Peter Marino looks back on some harsh influences and early lessons