Your message is really a philosophical message to architects. You’re trying to show us how we can build cities and break out of the old modes of urban planning and urban design.
And even thinking about or imagining cities that we have had for the past few hundred years, you’re offering a new way. I don’t know anyone else that’s done that today. Maybe someone will say Colin Rowe. OK—Collage City, but this goes far, far beyond Collage City and any urban theory of Corbusier or anyone else.
— lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com
Excerpts of a Candid Conversation between Thom Mayne and Lebbeus Woods Recorded in the privacy of LW’s studio, transcribed by Dave Irwin
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This section jumped out at me... seems very much against the grain of the recent "social design" or "public" design turn or am I misreading?...
How do you factor in, or how do you consider social issues that impact the city in your methodology—in your process? Because I am sure that’s a question that will be asked by people that start to say; ‘city’, they will then ask, ‘well what about the rich and the poor, what about social injustice, what about…’
TM: Architecture can’t answer those questions—that’s early modernism. I have no belief that architecture can solve those problems. Those are not architectural problems—those are political, social and cultural problems.
I was think about that too. It was very honest and blatant. It is hard to disagree. But it is part of architect responsibility to try at least ( if architects can).
How about a few lines from Philadelphia?
Joe Miller: What do you love about the law, Andrew?
Andrew: I... many things... uh... uh... What I love the most about the law?
Joe Miller: Yeah.
Andrew: It's that every now and again - not often, but occasionally - you get to be a part of justice being done. That really is quite a thrill when that happens.
"Candid Conversation"?
Please.
party line rhetoric
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