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Who is your favourite architect ?

Who is your favourite ? Why do you like him/(better say zaha than her)? Which of his work do you like most ?

 
Jan 23, 07 3:30 am
Nevermore

Brad Pitt.

I like him, cos thanks to him, my fantasy crush is single again
(i.e Jennifer Aniston )

Jan 23, 07 3:48 am  · 
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b3tadine[sutures]

kill your heros.

Jan 23, 07 7:17 am  · 
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ether

I've been into these guys lately. Waiting patiently for the monograph to come out later next month.

btw. Why do the people who ask questions like the one above never seem to offer their own opinion?

Jan 23, 07 9:09 am  · 
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it's the politician approach: don't form an opinion until you can hear everybody else's opinions and figure out what the popular answer would be.

or, in the case of architects, polling to determine what the more too-cool-for-school under-the-radar answer might be.

Jan 23, 07 9:17 am  · 
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bucku

i love the logo for that firm. its so poetic.

Jan 23, 07 10:00 am  · 
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Jr.

Fred Bassetti.

Jan 23, 07 10:04 am  · 
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Chili Davis

Howard Roark

Jan 23, 07 10:10 am  · 
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ThriftyAcres

Chili Davis

Jan 23, 07 10:23 am  · 
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farmer

John Soane

Jan 23, 07 10:31 am  · 
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Chili Davis

Chili Davis is far from an architect, but I will gladly be your favorite CAD monkey.

Jan 23, 07 10:31 am  · 
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Monolith

Too young to have been in the know, but has Eisenman become massively out of vogue, especially since his collaboration with Derrida and the subsequent publication of Chora L Works (which I believe Derrida quickly estranged himself from non?)

Any more info on this subject? I come from a philosophy background and became aware initially of Eisenman through this.


Jan 23, 07 11:38 am  · 
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brian buchalski

more importantly, which architect would you like to sleep with? (not counting the ones that you've already had, of course)

Jan 23, 07 1:09 pm  · 
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Monolith

Do you have a link to that interview meta? Thanks for your thoughts.

Jan 23, 07 1:17 pm  · 
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sparch

One can't improve oneself when one's satisfied with oneself.

Jan 23, 07 1:29 pm  · 
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i know j. he's not that great.

Jan 23, 07 1:35 pm  · 
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I love archinect

Christopher Wren, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, John Soane, GOD>!

Jan 23, 07 1:38 pm  · 
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I love archinect

Christopher Wren, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, John Soane, GOD>!

Jan 23, 07 1:38 pm  · 
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Client

IMHOTEP

Jan 23, 07 1:54 pm  · 
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Client

(artist's interpretation)

Jan 23, 07 1:57 pm  · 
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Client
Jan 23, 07 1:59 pm  · 
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le bossman

did they get you to trade
your heroes for ghosts
hot ashes for trees
hot air for the cool breeze

Jan 23, 07 3:22 pm  · 
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El Lissitzky

Jan 23, 07 3:38 pm  · 
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Medit

got my ticket to see Waters' deconstructing some PF songs (including that one ^ I hope) next April 21...

no fave architect at the moment..

Jan 23, 07 3:38 pm  · 
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ochona

holy shit -- that firm is REAL! who in their RIGHT MIND would have come up with that logo? JESUS!

oh...what was the question?

Jan 23, 07 3:41 pm  · 
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Louis I. Kahn and Anne Tyng

Jan 23, 07 3:45 pm  · 
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Medit
Jan 23, 07 3:48 pm  · 
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Medit

^ for all those fancy graphic lovers...

Jan 23, 07 3:49 pm  · 
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save your energy worship the diety of abra

Jan 23, 07 4:13 pm  · 
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The architect of Kloster Hohenwart

because my parents were married there, and because my brother was born in the hospital next door.

Jan 23, 07 4:15 pm  · 
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Hasselhoff

I don't have a favorite architect. Used to be Ando, then I saw a lot of Ando buildings and realized, everyone has some good ones and some bad ones. So it's more that I like certain buildings, but no unwavering favorite. I like a lot of the little guys though that sort of fly under the radar. Good stuff. I particularly found that in Japan. There is just a higher value on design, so you go in an alley somewhere and see a great little building.

Jan 23, 07 4:15 pm  · 
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Eutropia

because no one even knows that she designed buildings.

Jan 23, 07 4:29 pm  · 
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Client
Jan 23, 07 4:52 pm  · 
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post-neorealcrapismist

I don't intend to build in order to serve or help anyone. I don't intend to build in order to have clients. I intend to have clients in order to build

Jan 23, 07 4:55 pm  · 
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dierxap

OK..Ill bite.

Zumthor.

Go to Vals. Go see Kunsthaus in Bregrenz. Go see the Chapel.

IMO...one of only a very few living masters we have.

Jan 23, 07 5:10 pm  · 
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Carl Douglas (agfa8x)

Stephen, stick to one name will you! It makes it mighty hard to stereotype you when you keep shifting around!

Jan 23, 07 5:29 pm  · 
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through school I was obsessed with the work and writing of Steven Holl, and that he was able to do it with a tiny practice by today's standards (11 inlc him). That didn't last long

To be honest I like different architects for different reasons

but Corb will always be special...

Jan 23, 07 6:19 pm  · 
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xtbl






Jan 23, 07 6:31 pm  · 
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H&dM are looking a tad old there age escapes no one

Jan 23, 07 7:16 pm  · 
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but you've got to love SANAAs rain coats

Jan 23, 07 7:16 pm  · 
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Jan 23, 07 9:21 pm  · 
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upside




Jan 23, 07 9:52 pm  · 
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upside

the rodent knows his Derrida

Jan 23, 07 9:53 pm  · 
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drums please, Fab?


richard wilson

Jan 23, 07 10:29 pm  · 
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whoever designed the Shooting Gallery Wildlife Museum

chose your sterotype, take aim and shoot!

on target joke:
put Michael Graves and Philippe Stark together in a sack
hit the sack with a big stick
you always get the right one

Jan 23, 07 10:54 pm  · 
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upside

tie bricks to sack
throw off beaver dam
go for a drink

Jan 24, 07 12:06 am  · 
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Ivo Shandor

Jan 24, 07 12:42 am  · 
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AbrahamNR

I don't know if I would call them my "favorites" but I really dig people like Josh Prince-Ramus and MVRDV because I'm very interested in how reserch can inform design. I would add REM there (of course, since that's where they come from), but lately his stuff has been too miesian even for me (although I like his design for Milstein Hall quite a bit).

Jan 24, 07 1:14 am  · 
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Nevermore

upside ,
beavers are the dam engineer kinds,
Bees and wasps are more like socialist mass housing designers

but Ants ! ...ants yea rock.

(ants are the skyscraper architects of the animal world ! , they've been building skyscrapers even before man existed !)

I once heard David Attenborough remark that as compared to their size, the giant anthills that some ants can build has not been matched up in comparison by humans till date.





Jan 24, 07 2:44 am  · 
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strlt_typ

neutra, schindler, aalto, zumthor, wright, eisenman, koolhaas, mockbee, coa, moss, tschumi, allen, corner, arets, mvrdv, lynn, van der rohe, sullivan, coop himmelblau, corb, venturi and brown, mayne, diller and scofidio, meier, kahn, west 8, israel, rotondi...etc...

i love 'em all...

Jan 24, 07 2:52 am  · 
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Serkan Ennac

of course Sami Hayek :D

Jan 24, 07 3:05 am  · 
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