Awesome review,
One point of agreement is that while i like Davis's work to an extent, he is only offering criticism.....
Koolhaus on the other hand is attempting to argue that "Is there something like a critical participation?"
Can one particpate in an act, while at the same time critizing it?
I would say yes, however, will "RK" response be as has been discussed in the discussion forum, to simply produce a generic architecture/building/skyscraper?
If so does this go far enough?
I think not....
tourist magnets built out of glass, steel, and stucco on the backs of immigrant labor for a global upper class...hardly seems like the end-of-architecture-and-cities-as-we-know-it, more like the same old story, now accelerated and celebrated. but this time with koolhaas as apologist cum critic and davis providing a deconstructive/art historical "reading". strangely, koolhaas was at columbia bemoaning the lack of power of architects, while he cant bring himself to use his power to turn down commissions. he would rather say that he's just part of a mythic, nameless consensus of abused architects that are powerlessly working for questionable regimes. his contribution is yet another exhaustive bit of "research", endless unqualified compilations that act as a smokescreen to his unabashed greed and denial. frankly, he's done writing.
impurity is not necessarily a bad thing for creativity (not my idea but just read an interview somewhere else.) especially when connected with business. we sort of have to play it out that way. otherwise, we will be sitting at home. i liked the book because it gave me a larger picture in my mind about what is going on in the region, with many short essays dealing with seemingly different point of views. but the book, i thought had plenty of moral undertones and cautions, which were already downer enough. it will be like back to middle ages or something with zombie faces everywhere. just make sure to build plenty of parabolic solar collectors in dubai before they run out of oil in around ... 2010 (?) i think dubai is too planned to be generic. would it make it a pure city then? anyways, if you want to see a generic city, come to my city and check it out. we will show you what "dynamic" is. (sorry, i would not give out its name. hehe)
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Awesome review,
One point of agreement is that while i like Davis's work to an extent, he is only offering criticism.....
Koolhaus on the other hand is attempting to argue that "Is there something like a critical participation?"
Can one particpate in an act, while at the same time critizing it?
I would say yes, however, will "RK" response be as has been discussed in the discussion forum, to simply produce a generic architecture/building/skyscraper?
If so does this go far enough?
I think not....
tourist magnets built out of glass, steel, and stucco on the backs of immigrant labor for a global upper class...hardly seems like the end-of-architecture-and-cities-as-we-know-it, more like the same old story, now accelerated and celebrated. but this time with koolhaas as apologist cum critic and davis providing a deconstructive/art historical "reading". strangely, koolhaas was at columbia bemoaning the lack of power of architects, while he cant bring himself to use his power to turn down commissions. he would rather say that he's just part of a mythic, nameless consensus of abused architects that are powerlessly working for questionable regimes. his contribution is yet another exhaustive bit of "research", endless unqualified compilations that act as a smokescreen to his unabashed greed and denial. frankly, he's done writing.
impurity is not necessarily a bad thing for creativity (not my idea but just read an interview somewhere else.) especially when connected with business. we sort of have to play it out that way. otherwise, we will be sitting at home. i liked the book because it gave me a larger picture in my mind about what is going on in the region, with many short essays dealing with seemingly different point of views. but the book, i thought had plenty of moral undertones and cautions, which were already downer enough. it will be like back to middle ages or something with zombie faces everywhere. just make sure to build plenty of parabolic solar collectors in dubai before they run out of oil in around ... 2010 (?) i think dubai is too planned to be generic. would it make it a pure city then? anyways, if you want to see a generic city, come to my city and check it out. we will show you what "dynamic" is. (sorry, i would not give out its name. hehe)
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