NYObserver profiles Laurie Olin: "Olin, the landscape architect behind Battery Park City and Bryant Park, faces a tough challenge in central Brooklyn. Not that he’s worried." | NYObserver
I love that the article portrays Laurie Olin as the excitable and far-reaching intellect that he is.
And I loved this quote: Mr. Olin speaks with the caffeinated jangle of a man who has been right so much of his life that he can afford to be wrong, and even candid, once in a while..
It reminds me that everything we designers do is, as he says, an experiment, and while a lot of ideas can be repeated and work well often enough to become "common knowledge", we are also charged with challenging the status quo in situations when it is merited.
I also know Laurie Olin professionally and personally, and can say I sincerely doubt that in 20 years anyone will be saying that there was anything "wrong" with his ideas for this project.
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I love that the article portrays Laurie Olin as the excitable and far-reaching intellect that he is.
And I loved this quote: Mr. Olin speaks with the caffeinated jangle of a man who has been right so much of his life that he can afford to be wrong, and even candid, once in a while..
It reminds me that everything we designers do is, as he says, an experiment, and while a lot of ideas can be repeated and work well often enough to become "common knowledge", we are also charged with challenging the status quo in situations when it is merited.
I also know Laurie Olin professionally and personally, and can say I sincerely doubt that in 20 years anyone will be saying that there was anything "wrong" with his ideas for this project.
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ok, only 5 years of knowing him
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