As part of his Extra Extra series, Ryan Scavnicky admitted "I tend to bag on Bjarke Ingels a lot" following which he explains his beef with the BIG diagram.
Will Galloway thought it was a nice essay but questioned "don't you think REM does the same thing, and if so does the same critique apply?...From a personal point of view, the unexpected thing about Bjarke's work is that it is really good in person. Details are wonky and not so impressive in comparison to Herzog and DeMeuron for example...But the social experience is brilliant. The diagrams are actually kind of real, which is seriously impressive."
Plus, Kimberly Neuhaus of Neuhaus Design Architecture was profiled for the latest addition to the Just Design Initiative.
To those admiring the firm's commitment to the 40 hour (or in some cases even less) workweek, justavisual noted "4 day workweek is standard for 50% of people in dutch architecture offices. In your 20's you're more than welcome to work 40+ hrs all you want, when you're older or have kids (ie value your personal time more) you switch to 36 or 32hr weeks...everyone is flexible. Also have 30 days off each year and can ask for extra unpaid holiday time. Never going back to USA."
Reacting to the news, that Kevin Roche had died at age 96, Chemex wrote "RIP one of the greats."
Archinect created a GIF of the deconstruction of the various Trump Border Wall prototypes. randomised requested "More of these visualisations with your articles please :-)".
We got a first glimpse, of the proposed design by Diller Scofidio + Renfro's for a new University of Toronto building. Alexander Morley criticized "There is nothing reverential about this design...The banal mass loosely disintegrating at the outline of the existing building? Creative and novel this is not. A grossly inappropriate scale that regurgitates the same tired tricks, all the while rationalizing and proclaiming its importance through nonsensical jargon."
Arata Isozaki was named the 2019 Pritzker Prize winner. In response, Shane Reiner-Roth highlighted a few of his many significant works and Katherine Guimapang took a look at Arata Isozaki's three totemic pavilion's in Joshua Tree, CA.
The Barcelona Edition in Barcelona, Spain by OAB - Office of Architecture in Barcelona and Apartments@143 in New Delhi, India by Plan Loci are just two of the latest top images (in no particular order) from the Archinect Pinterest board Fancy Facades.
David C. McFadden penned a blog-post looking at Female Architects by the Numbers, Issues Facing Women in the Industry, a Growing Support Network and why some female architects argue for Taking the “Female” out, as a descriptor for themselves. noithatmienbacjsc who was late in joining the ensuing discussion agreed "that it would be nice to see more of a mix in what is usually just men or women roles".
Will Galloway added "By the way, the photo at the top of the post is of Julia King, one of the most impressive architects out there, female or otherwise. I dont think she is mentioned in the text, so google her."
Back in March, Unnati Patel was "working on special project with Professor Chris Romano which is based on Multi-sensory architectural research, drawing attention to our hearing capabilities, the spatial dimension of hearing, the phenomenology of listening and how we are situated and immersed in the world through sound" while Anthony Nitche worked on Documenting the Alhambra Complex.
Saba Salekfard, who last posted to their blog Collections & Curations: A Repository back in 2015, wrote a new post titled Toys Take Over Second Year Studio.
The New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) has appointed Branko Kolarevic as their new dean of the College of Architecture and Design, effective July 1st, 2019. b3tadine[sutures] was less than impressed
"A tech school, does what a tech school does, and goes with the safe choice. A techie, but not an architechie, a trendie, but not a brand; a safe choice...Oh, and another man too."
Gaidamack needed to vent "This field is filled with absolute idiots and it is destroying the profession". Their specific complaint had to do with labor rights and working hours or
"Idiots as in people who are OK with working 18hr a day, 6-7 days a week...it seems like nobody has self respect. Everyone is okay being a slave, because if we've been taught that in school." 5839 suggested "consider a different firm, if that culture is getting to you. We don't all keep those hours, regardless of what your profs told you" advice Witty Banter seconded.
However tduds argued, that in their experience "Outside of a few starchitect firms, workaholic culture...is more closely correlated with location than industry."
Erik Evens wanted to discuss Kate Wagner’s nuanced opinion on the Vessel at the Hudson Yards in NYC. To those complaining about Kate being an elitist snob of a critic, tduds countered they were misconstruing "criticism of the building...as criticism of the owner in order to use a false ad hominem to construct a disingenuous argument."
Later Miles Jaffe praised "Wagner's criticism of The Vessel reaches a new level. It devastatingly accurate in every respect and directly cites critical societal issues of public space, corporatism, liability, privacy, income inequality, etc., which - assuming that you haven't been asleep for the past decade - are some of the more critical issues we face."
‘Necters had a lot of opinions about the fact that 2019 Serpentine Pavilion architect Junya Ishigami "not only doesn't pay interns, he requires them to provide their own computer." eeayeeayo summed up "Whether you're a firm exploiting free labor, or a student or recent grad submitting to it, at this point if you participate in that system it clearly marks you as somewhere between extremely naive and extremely unethical". Though as meh301 points out
Junya Ishigami isn’t alone "every other architecture firm in Tokyo apart from Kengo Kuma & Associates" does this "Even Klein Dytham doesn't offer paid internships."
Finally, Eure put out a call for "best practices you have found for keeping birds from striking glass windows and killing themselves by the impact?" senjohnblutarsky offered a simple solution "We could just stop designing buildings wrapped entirely in glass. That would probably go a long way. It'd help make buildings more efficient as well."
In Refusal after Refusal (in Harvard Design Magazine #46) @joannaklpnbrg + @NicholasKorody diagnose that
"Beginning with their schooling, architects are routinely required to invest more money than they will ever receive in compensation and workplace protections...But...the labor of architecture falls short of this promise...we’re beholden to patronage."
then go on to imagine a future, taking a cue from autonomism, wherein "All we can imagine is a horizon, hazy and distant, in which we discover, or remember, how to refuse—together."
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Leave Joshua Tree alone. The scene would be improved by removing the art. Why inflict modern culture on timeless nature?
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