Marino spoke to artist Rashid Johnson for Interview at length about his early client, the magazine's founder Andy Warhol, as well as a host of other topics, including his art collection, time at Cornell, and what he sees as the gradual evolution of pop art’s influence into the works of contemporaries like Michael Graves.
“I think some of Graves’s work is very good, but as an architectural movement, it’s very mannerist. It’s one person’s interpretation. Pop art shaded him, and I was always a bit terrified of the postmodern movement. I thought Venturi, Scott Brown [and Associates] did good work, but I think it’s fair to describe it as a niche section in the field.”
The famed retail designer also recalled his early days in the offices of Nelson and SOM, reacting to changes in the city’s architectural palette that he found aberrant and blamed squarely on dramatic post-war shifts in design education and professional training.
“I don’t know what caused it, but all the shit buildings in New York were done in the ’60s, like those white brick residences. I should write a book and call it The Decade of Garbage Architecture. It was just a mess. You would be trained in the Beaux-Arts style up until 1945, but you were expected to produce Corbusier. Then after the war, all the colleges pooh-poohed Beaux-Arts training, and it was just a time of nihilism. There was no direction in architecture.”
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Early lesson #27: Leather underwear should be dry-cleaned, not laundered.
Sopranos spoiled me. Everytime I see Marino, I just see Vito at the club.
It certainly shows the value of networking, although the article doesn't mention how Marino came to know Philip Johnson and Andy Warhol.
The part about Barneys is interesting also, getting someone to let you do a project type you haven't done before is a huge break for a young business.
Networking and salesmanship are critical to business development. The giants of 20th century architecture are all adept salesmen of their day. What's that adage - when preparation meets opportunity, that's when luck happens? Jeanne Gang got to sit beside a major Chicago developer one time and managed to impress him enough during the dinner that he considered and gave her firm the Aqua commission that shot her to fame.
The interview and this capsule somehow manage not to mention the abuse and harassment lawsuits against Marino that resulted in the AIA rescinding awards...
https://ny.curbed.com/2018/3/2...
Looks like he survived the Me Too period by laying low. Meier survived too, it seems.
Well, Meier effectively lost his firm and settled a spendy lawsuit - his career is dunzo. Marino's punishment here is reflecting on the time that Andy Warhol didn't pay a bill and due to Marino's friendship with Philip Johnson (himself a fairly loathsomely character) ultimately got paid.
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