It may have been a "scattergun" of a speech, but his Local Government Association address on Monday was also vintage Paul Keating and sprayed across familiar territory: the shoddiness of NSW planning, the shadiness of its politicians, the rapaciousness of its developers, the shabbiness of its architecture and, underpinning it all, the mediocrity of modernism.
Sydney Morning Herald | prev
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it's not that we're not smart enough or that we're ignoring our present circumstances. these are issues with which many of us fight every day. the problem: architects don't have it within our power to keep this from happening. (the article's author does actually acknowledge this near the end.) it's why i'm probably on my way out.
what I noted at the end of this article was the bit about 'a renaissance code'. that attracted and stimulated my imagination, as do alchemy and magic, not because they are true or relevant, but because they are a welcome antidote to much architectural theory on the right and the left which I find over-intellectual, not written for the Common Reader (in V. Woolf's sense), arid and rigorous to the point of being anti-poetic and antiseptic.
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