Hi all. I'm trying to get a discussion going over on Life Without Buildings and I'd love some input from Archinecters. The topic: How would you define LO-FI ARCHITECTURE? There were some great answers on Twitter, which have been copied into the post, but I was hoping to get some longer-form ideas on the blog:
I would say a great deal of suburban architecture would be lo-fi. If you compare it to hi-fi vs. lo-fi audio. A lot of repetition, half assed details, kind of a "git 'er done" style. It houses people comfortably, but it's nothing special. While hi-end design is more like hi-fi audio. The details are worked out, the design is "mastered." Like a cheap stereo that plays the music, and a great stereo that is an instrument itself.
Yeah, I just clicked here to say exactly what Hasselhoff said. There's a kind of lo-fi (different from the romanticized and naive and gritty) that's just lo-res. It's architecture meant to be seen through squinted eyes and at high speed and with little attention.
Lo-fi architecture?
Hi all. I'm trying to get a discussion going over on Life Without Buildings and I'd love some input from Archinecters. The topic: How would you define LO-FI ARCHITECTURE? There were some great answers on Twitter, which have been copied into the post, but I was hoping to get some longer-form ideas on the blog:
http://lifewithoutbuildings.net/2009/02/searching-for-a-definition-of-lo-fi-architecture.html
Thanks!
i would say rural studio is "lo-fi"
I would say a great deal of suburban architecture would be lo-fi. If you compare it to hi-fi vs. lo-fi audio. A lot of repetition, half assed details, kind of a "git 'er done" style. It houses people comfortably, but it's nothing special. While hi-end design is more like hi-fi audio. The details are worked out, the design is "mastered." Like a cheap stereo that plays the music, and a great stereo that is an instrument itself.
Yeah, I just clicked here to say exactly what Hasselhoff said. There's a kind of lo-fi (different from the romanticized and naive and gritty) that's just lo-res. It's architecture meant to be seen through squinted eyes and at high speed and with little attention.
perhaps atelier bow-wow's 'pet-architecture' influenced work could be described as lo-fi?
go with hi lo fi.
hi lo fi is this. go figure!
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