Can I not, one might also ask, separate the tics of a genius personality from the work of a genius? No, I would proudly respond, I cannot. And neither should you: when a building is itself leveraged on the personality of its builder—as it always is in the case of Rem and so many others who need not be mentioned here again (okay: Peter, Zaha, Richard, Danny)—then that personality, tics and all, becomes part of what one must assess to understand the finished work. Metropolis
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Ha... even before opening that link I knew this was another piece of Philip Nobel gossipy hate mail.
it is well written though
"I had not been unfair, and anyway I was right."
I so want to use that line some day.
These are my two favorite sound bites from the article:
Shouldn’t the Architecture be integral to the architecture, not contingent on its vulnerable surfaces?
This one gives me pause, because my own work often relies more heavily on material than on space.
...yet another OMA building driven primarily by a formalist impulse: a big shape, boldly cantilevered because it’s cool.
This one seems to apply to a lot of student work and even, sadly, at least one P/A award winner.
But I, too, am madly in love with the IIT building. Madly, helplessly, totally in love with it.
you need to see the kunsthal, still the best! despite what I said about the casa muzak
after my visit, i started thinking again of the value of ornament in contemporary arch. design...the use of graphics, colors, materials, and at times shapes, all read as ornamental...but i enjoyed it tremendously (probably as they did serve a social/cultural function to the occupant)...especially after being somewhat disappointed by the millenium park...
and a building is a building, as music is music...apart from prick architects or insane composers...
I think that OMA is great at the scale of IIT, Kunsthal, Villa Alba. The CCTV on the other hand...
i love cctv
hm. gossipy hate mail for sure. well written in the sense that it's entertaining, but the arguments aren't the most sound...although I suppose the purpose wasn't to make a solid argument, but a "big [], boldly cantilevered because it’s cool" argument.
and the Kunsthal is a wonderful project.
Full of wonder.
re: "big bold cantilever" excellent point, AP!!
I like Rem. I hate Oasis because the guys are douchebags. But there is something about Rem's asshole personality that I like haha. Never met the guy, but I bet if I did, I wouldn't like him. On a side note, I think Tina Manis was in charge of the IIT project (she often refered to it as her baby), although I guess it's got Rem's big, blue foam, penis stamp approval on it.
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