Gary Indiana wrote this? As in Gary Indiana the artist? This is such a vanity article, meaning one in which you learn more about how the author feels about things than about the person supposedly being interviewed. First I was totally put off by the sidebar: "Backstory: Architects are fussy control freaks by nature." OK, there's one very tired and untrue notion. Then comes this: I would rather live in a dull, beautiful place than a place where things “happen.†My own utopian ideas involve population control and scaling down the human presence on the planet. Architects think in terms of endless capitalist expansion, endless growth, endless everything; yet I feel certain we are coming to the end of endlessness. Still, Zaha Hadid is probably the only architect I’ve met who seems conscious of this, without necessarily acknowledging it. (emphasis mine)
I'm guessing Gary hasn't met many architects. What a lame interview.
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Gary Indiana wrote this? As in Gary Indiana the artist? This is such a vanity article, meaning one in which you learn more about how the author feels about things than about the person supposedly being interviewed. First I was totally put off by the sidebar: "Backstory: Architects are fussy control freaks by nature." OK, there's one very tired and untrue notion. Then comes this: I would rather live in a dull, beautiful place than a place where things “happen.†My own utopian ideas involve population control and scaling down the human presence on the planet. Architects think in terms of endless capitalist expansion, endless growth, endless everything; yet I feel certain we are coming to the end of endlessness. Still, Zaha Hadid is probably the only architect I’ve met who seems conscious of this, without necessarily acknowledging it. (emphasis mine)
I'm guessing Gary hasn't met many architects. What a lame interview.
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