In 2015, Libeskind’s brand of Deconstructivism (and all varieties of Deconstructivism, one might argue) amounts to a familiar, dull architecture; a calcified formal language whose shock-factor and novelty has worn away. One would hope that Libeskind, as a leading architectural practitioner, could at least try to articulate a new agenda in the experimental vein of his earlier work. Alas — as the Mons International Conference Xperience shows — that’s not the case. — blouinartinfo.com
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Reviews like these are their own kind of dull and annoying. Says more about the author than anything. If someone wants to build it, they are contributing more to the world than this idiot writer.
It's so pointy!
(The building, not the review.)
Multiple things wrong here, but all based on a myopic view of architecture as some kind of experimental artistic expression.
And not just the reviewer -
Yet after successful efforts by Deconstructivism’s practitioners to counteract prevailing tradition, it has become clear that they simply developed another variety of status quo.
Isn't this what always happens with the avant garde? Isn't parametrics also leading to a status quo banality?
Pointless article. A bit offensive and very sad.
I think she choose the wrong building for this argument. This is actually a decent looking building that isn't trying so hard to be shocking, which is fine.
And the building's facade is made of strips of aluminum and Robinia wood, not exactly "the architect’s signature jagged metal planes".
Nice post, davvid. I don't trust journalism, at all, anymore.
Daniel's "making things" inpursuit of d'objet d'art, its happening even in responses seen read
"walk the dog" "honey"
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Architecture
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To the author I say, show us how architecture should be done. In other words, design and build something that supports your position, not research another designer's work. If you can do that, then your position is valid.
Libeskind's own words on the Mons International Conference Xperience (recorded here by architecture filmmakers Spirit of Space on a press tour) may help explain his angles on Deconstructivism ideas:
http://spiritofspace.com/daniel-libeskind-micx
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