NY Architect and urban planner Jaquelin T. Robertson named the recipient of the Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture. Trendsetters take note: The prize is $100,000. | South Bend Tribune
Oh for bleep's fucking sake this makes me sick to my stomach:
Robertson told Forbes he advises clients not to make their homes too specific to their own needs and likes. "I always say, 'What if you had to sell the house tomorrow?' And if it's too idiosyncratic, someone won't buy it and then it's a bad house," he said.
The almighty resale value is apparently all that matters!! The ONLY thing that is important is whether someone else would buy it!! Forget enjoying your own life, screw taking in pleasure in what you consider to be beautiful, be ashamed of your own personal proclivities because if some slimeball realtor tells you it doesn't have resale value your whole life is meaningless!!
Guess my house is a "bad house", and so is Falling Water.
well said, LB. And not only that, I think he's wrong. I think that all the little details that architects like to put into houses- niches and nooks and custom shelving and a bit of built in furniture and such like that- are things that a homebuyer would see the usefullness of and the care that went into it, and give that house more character and value. Why wouldn't someone pay more for a house with some nice custom features, than for a same old cookie cutter house? Doesn't even make sense.
Finally sent a letter to the editor of the South Bend Tribune today. It's poorly written, for me, but this topic makes me so angry my hands shake and I can't think clearly:
Re: The article on the Driehaus Prize as recently awarded to Jaquelin Robertson.
As an architect, I work very closely with homeowners helping them to create a home that will truly reflect their values and give them pleasure in their daily surroundings. It infuriates me to hear a fellow architect proclaim that the most important aspect of one's home is resale value. Architecture has functions far beyond the commercial. The way we build our environments reflects on our shared goals as a human community. Good architecture should inspire the spirit. Obsessive concern about resale value inspires nothing but fear, yet isn't one's own home the one place that should more than anywhere be a reflection of one's personal taste and spirit?
Mr. Robertson believes that a house that is "too idiosyncratic" is automatically "bad". I guess that means Fallingwater is a terrible house. It saddens me that Robertson, whose firm does very nice institutional work, would tell homeowners to be ashamed of enjoying their own space in exactly the way they want it.
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Oh for bleep's fucking sake this makes me sick to my stomach:
Robertson told Forbes he advises clients not to make their homes too specific to their own needs and likes. "I always say, 'What if you had to sell the house tomorrow?' And if it's too idiosyncratic, someone won't buy it and then it's a bad house," he said.
The almighty resale value is apparently all that matters!! The ONLY thing that is important is whether someone else would buy it!! Forget enjoying your own life, screw taking in pleasure in what you consider to be beautiful, be ashamed of your own personal proclivities because if some slimeball realtor tells you it doesn't have resale value your whole life is meaningless!!
Guess my house is a "bad house", and so is Falling Water.
well said, LB. And not only that, I think he's wrong. I think that all the little details that architects like to put into houses- niches and nooks and custom shelving and a bit of built in furniture and such like that- are things that a homebuyer would see the usefullness of and the care that went into it, and give that house more character and value. Why wouldn't someone pay more for a house with some nice custom features, than for a same old cookie cutter house? Doesn't even make sense.
i felt some throwup in the back of my throat, too, Liberty, but my man got $100,000!
His espousals contrast the news of the 33 million that Courtney Cox is asking for her Lautner home.
your house is likely a "bad house" in the classical tradition of Run-DMC's mantra, "not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good!"
nice.
Finally sent a letter to the editor of the South Bend Tribune today. It's poorly written, for me, but this topic makes me so angry my hands shake and I can't think clearly:
Re: The article on the Driehaus Prize as recently awarded to Jaquelin Robertson.
As an architect, I work very closely with homeowners helping them to create a home that will truly reflect their values and give them pleasure in their daily surroundings. It infuriates me to hear a fellow architect proclaim that the most important aspect of one's home is resale value. Architecture has functions far beyond the commercial. The way we build our environments reflects on our shared goals as a human community. Good architecture should inspire the spirit. Obsessive concern about resale value inspires nothing but fear, yet isn't one's own home the one place that should more than anywhere be a reflection of one's personal taste and spirit?
Mr. Robertson believes that a house that is "too idiosyncratic" is automatically "bad". I guess that means Fallingwater is a terrible house. It saddens me that Robertson, whose firm does very nice institutional work, would tell homeowners to be ashamed of enjoying their own space in exactly the way they want it.
I dont think it's poorly written at all, Libery, and I applaud you for it.
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