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Icon-rationing, equal entrances, dumb cities – The Guardian's new year's resolutions for architects in 2015
Gathering of the icons at the redesigned Battersea Power Station: Norman Foster, Bjarke Ingels, Frank Gehry. Rendering: BIG, via theguardian.com
Build better towers, ditch the Lego, outlaw the ‘facadectomy’ – and how about more transparency in Boris’s London?
— theguardian.com
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My New Year's wish is for better quality Architecture journalism that can cut through the BS and contribute new facts to the debates. Architecture culture needs less opinion and more reporting. The Martin Fuller/Zaha Hadid Al Wakrah fiasco, the Gehry Eisenhower Memorial, the Koolhaas Beirut project, the Lucas Museum in Chicago, and the MoMA expansion are all cases where most of the more elite critics in this country took knee-jerk populist positions but failed to illuminate the situation with facts.
Facts are simple and facts are straight
Facts are lazy and facts are late
Facts all come with points of view
Facts don't do what I want them to
Facts just twist the truth around
Facts are living turned inside out
Facts are getting the best of them
Facts are nothing on the face of things
Facts don't stain the furniture
Facts go out and slam the door
Facts are written all over your face
Facts continue to change their shape
Miles Jaffe, your comments are a very good example of the type of unintelligible opinion polluting architecture debates.
There's no debate here. Just the largely uninformed, bitchy and highly subjective opinion that you've shared with us. If you're offended by my commentary on it - actually Talking Heads commentary (former RISD architecture students!) - then you should spend more time thinking carefully about what you write.
You should also spend more time thinking about what others write. That wasn't an attack on your fragile ego, it was a clear statement about the subjectivity of "facts".
Here's an idea: if you are unhappy with architectural criticism, try writing some.
'elite critics' is a funny phrase. how does one become an 'elite' critic. based on Miles Jaffe's post count - he is a super-elite critic, I would suggest.
davidd, why are we waiting for them to write something worth reading?
Yeah, davvid, I'm confused by what you're asking. Are you saying architectural criticism - Hawthorne, Wainwright, Kimmelman, etc - are the elites, and they're not doing enough reporting?
Or are you saying mainstream non-architecture media - aka, regular reporters, not architecture critics - are reporting populist "criticism" and not truly reporting on the facts of the issue?
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