Small interview with AIA's new president elected. Good going sir. Welcome.
AR: Do you find American architecture too conservative?
Marshall Purnell: If architecture is still music frozen in time, then we're doing classical music. There's no R&B, no jazz, no rap. When you look at who is contributing to the architectural fabric of America, it's often boring.
AR, earlier
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[quote: aia president marshall purnell] We need clients who are looking for those creative modes. It’s one of the only modes of artistic expression where you need someone to commission it. If you’re a painter you just paint. With architecture you need a patron.
good interview.
too bad the patrons aren't teenagers. then you'd get not-so-conservative architecture ..
our best u.s. architecture does cover classical, r&b, jazz, rap, trance, microsound, pop, rock, funk, grunge, industrial, a capella, do-wop, be-bop, and cool. just 98% is classical as played by a 5th grade orchestra ..
please, someone stop the awful metaphors!
well, i always thought architecture was like a tree. if we can nourish the roots, the branches will grow strong and flourish.
but then it's also like a plate of spaghetti. a cluster of pasta 'filler' with one glorious meatball perched high on the pile.
and so on and so forth blah yada yoda blah.
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