A new online database of 16,000 people of note includes just two dozen architects. Only 4 are alive - Bill McDonough, Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne and Robert Venturi.
Well, after seeing their sad list, I kinda went a bit cuckoo and sent them following (excerpted) rant:
..."to put Bill McDonough in as one of only 4 living architects out of 16,000 people of note is laughable!!! And though its great and unexpected to see Thom Mayne in there (I worked for him), it is inexplicable and innexcusable not to include Rem Koohaas, possibly the most infuential architect alive!?!?! And what about Norman Foster, Herzog & DeMueron, Toyo Ito, Rafael Moneo, Alvaro Siza, or Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Peter Zumthor or even Glenn Murcutt -- all serious contenders for extremely notable and influential living architects?
If you're talking architects who aren't alive, it's insane not to include Mies van der Rohe??!!?? (ever heard the sayings 'less is more' or 'God is in the details'?) Alvar Aalto??!!?? Louis Kahn??!!?? Walter Gropius??!!?? (ever heard of the Bauhaus, not to mention its subsequent inflence worldwide and in the US via Gropius' tenure at Harvard?) Richard Neutra??!!?? Rudolphe Schindler??!!?? Aero Saarinen???!!!??? Jorn Utzon???!!!??? Arne Jacobsen???!!!??? Kenzo Tange??!!?? HP Berlage???!!!??? Antonio Gaudi????!!!??? Bernard Maybeck???!!!??? Henry Hobsen Richardson?????!!!!!!????? Christopher Wren????!!!!!????? -- the more I think about the missing major figures the more upsetting it is...
And in terms of long-dead architects, ever heard of Vetruvius, Alberti, Michelangelo, Palladio, or Boulee (they basically defined and re-defined what it means to be an architect)??????? -- at least you have LeCorbusier, Brunelleschi, Borromini and Bernini...But as of now your list is ridiculously inadaquate and ill-informed, not to mention ignorant. Please fix it for the sake of the 'mother of all arts'"...
should've thrown in Schinkel!!!, Rietveld, Lissitzky, Melnikov, Plecnik, Mendelsohn, Rossi, Stirling, Rogers and Piano (among obviously many others) to boot...dagnabit!
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Well, after seeing their sad list, I kinda went a bit cuckoo and sent them following (excerpted) rant:
..."to put Bill McDonough in as one of only 4 living architects out of 16,000 people of note is laughable!!! And though its great and unexpected to see Thom Mayne in there (I worked for him), it is inexplicable and innexcusable not to include Rem Koohaas, possibly the most infuential architect alive!?!?! And what about Norman Foster, Herzog & DeMueron, Toyo Ito, Rafael Moneo, Alvaro Siza, or Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, Peter Zumthor or even Glenn Murcutt -- all serious contenders for extremely notable and influential living architects?
If you're talking architects who aren't alive, it's insane not to include Mies van der Rohe??!!?? (ever heard the sayings 'less is more' or 'God is in the details'?) Alvar Aalto??!!?? Louis Kahn??!!?? Walter Gropius??!!?? (ever heard of the Bauhaus, not to mention its subsequent inflence worldwide and in the US via Gropius' tenure at Harvard?) Richard Neutra??!!?? Rudolphe Schindler??!!?? Aero Saarinen???!!!??? Jorn Utzon???!!!??? Arne Jacobsen???!!!??? Kenzo Tange??!!?? HP Berlage???!!!??? Antonio Gaudi????!!!??? Bernard Maybeck???!!!??? Henry Hobsen Richardson?????!!!!!!????? Christopher Wren????!!!!!????? -- the more I think about the missing major figures the more upsetting it is...
And in terms of long-dead architects, ever heard of Vetruvius, Alberti, Michelangelo, Palladio, or Boulee (they basically defined and re-defined what it means to be an architect)??????? -- at least you have LeCorbusier, Brunelleschi, Borromini and Bernini...But as of now your list is ridiculously inadaquate and ill-informed, not to mention ignorant. Please fix it for the sake of the 'mother of all arts'"...
should've thrown in Schinkel!!!, Rietveld, Lissitzky, Melnikov, Plecnik, Mendelsohn, Rossi, Stirling, Rogers and Piano (among obviously many others) to boot...dagnabit!
made the cut ...
here is an entry and summary description on the list..
Frank Gehry Architect 28-Feb-1929 -- Oh so po-mo architect
and, louis sullivan, the only one with..
Sexual orientation: Matter of Dispute
this list is hilerious.. and ..fucked up
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