is there really even a zeitgeist? the spirit of our times is dominated by wood framing, "i love sheetrock" (OMA), and other typical construction methods, on the other hand, there is the starchitect, the ETH, Roche, experimental structures built in academia.
Donna Sink
Dec 10, 15 1:50 pm
The zeitgeist is that there are multiple zeitgeists.
Die zeitgeist ist , dass es mehrere Zeitgeister .
,,,,
Dec 10, 15 1:55 pm
literal thinking
JLC-1
Dec 10, 15 2:00 pm
to take Donna's phrase a notch further, it seems to me nowadays is every man for himself; until a collective conscience emerges it will be very chaotic, but today every childish desire prompts people to believe everybody else should be on their side and think alike. I've seen gofundme requests for vacations in the Caribbean.
no_form
Dec 10, 15 2:17 pm
a multiplicity of zeitgeists kind of contradicts the zeitgeist. hasn't schumacher tried to force a collective style?
this leads to ask what is a "critical" architecture? if anything goes, what is actually an architecture that synthesizes the many zeitgeists and addresses many contradictory issues?
Alexander Walter
Dec 10, 15 2:18 pm
I love you Donna.
Der Zeitgeist though. Geist (spirit) is male. Who knew, right?
Donna Sink
Dec 10, 15 2:38 pm
Damn google translate, I knew that sounded wrong. Sorry, Alex! Finding the translation led me to re-read a few paragraphs from Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters, though, so that was fun. Reger's zeitgeist is described as contra mundum, which could also be a common theme today.
Yes, no_form, Schumacher is pushing for a collective commitment to parametricism. But I don't think anything can be that absolute and exclusionary these days, and I think that's preferable.
Miles Jaffe
Dec 10, 15 2:51 pm
Isn't it obvious? It explains everything from sheet rock to Shoemuncher's Bullshitmetricism.
Donna Sink
Dec 11, 15 3:15 pm
I'm not just pushing the podcast, but seriously, listen to Denise Scott Brown. She talks more-or-less (heh) about how many different ways there are of doing architecture these days.
x-jla
Dec 11, 15 3:58 pm
+++ Miles
We are in the age of rampant Corporatism. The masses get cheap Mc'buildings and the corporations commission decadent buildings that act as part of their Advertising campaigns. All while academia tries to figure out how to 3-D print toilet bowls or how to feed the world with architecture...we are in the age of BIG buildings, big ambitions, and big budgets....unfortunately our will and ability to do what the earth demands is very very small...we are living through the death rattle of the industrial era.
archiwutm8
Dec 14, 15 4:47 am
jla-x : It isn't architecture or design anymore, its luxurious sculptures.
wurdan freo
Dec 14, 15 12:07 pm
The zeitgeist is fear mongering. And it's played by both corporate america and the government. We are just batted back and forth between them like the game of Pong.
is there really even a zeitgeist? the spirit of our times is dominated by wood framing, "i love sheetrock" (OMA), and other typical construction methods, on the other hand, there is the starchitect, the ETH, Roche, experimental structures built in academia.
The zeitgeist is that there are multiple zeitgeists.
Die zeitgeist ist , dass es mehrere Zeitgeister .
literal thinking
to take Donna's phrase a notch further, it seems to me nowadays is every man for himself; until a collective conscience emerges it will be very chaotic, but today every childish desire prompts people to believe everybody else should be on their side and think alike. I've seen gofundme requests for vacations in the Caribbean.
a multiplicity of zeitgeists kind of contradicts the zeitgeist. hasn't schumacher tried to force a collective style?
this leads to ask what is a "critical" architecture? if anything goes, what is actually an architecture that synthesizes the many zeitgeists and addresses many contradictory issues?
I love you Donna.
Der Zeitgeist though. Geist (spirit) is male. Who knew, right?
Damn google translate, I knew that sounded wrong. Sorry, Alex! Finding the translation led me to re-read a few paragraphs from Thomas Bernhard's Old Masters, though, so that was fun. Reger's zeitgeist is described as contra mundum, which could also be a common theme today.
Yes, no_form, Schumacher is pushing for a collective commitment to parametricism. But I don't think anything can be that absolute and exclusionary these days, and I think that's preferable.
Isn't it obvious? It explains everything from sheet rock to Shoemuncher's Bullshitmetricism.
I'm not just pushing the podcast, but seriously, listen to Denise Scott Brown. She talks more-or-less (heh) about how many different ways there are of doing architecture these days.
+++ Miles
We are in the age of rampant Corporatism. The masses get cheap Mc'buildings and the corporations commission decadent buildings that act as part of their Advertising campaigns. All while academia tries to figure out how to 3-D print toilet bowls or how to feed the world with architecture...we are in the age of BIG buildings, big ambitions, and big budgets....unfortunately our will and ability to do what the earth demands is very very small...we are living through the death rattle of the industrial era.
jla-x : It isn't architecture or design anymore, its luxurious sculptures.
The zeitgeist is fear mongering. And it's played by both corporate america and the government. We are just batted back and forth between them like the game of Pong.
the Age of Bullshit