i am still a skateboarder and im a kickass architect also if u dont mind me saying it..... and bullshit about zaha and Zaera polo sying the "feedback of the skaters would be pairt of their design process"... c'mon zaha do you really know what's a skateboard?? do you know where to use it how to use it?? c'mon....
That's the point. They don't know anything about skateboarding, so they are making inquiries and using feedback to better understand. Ignorance of skateboarding is not a crime, nor is a desire to learn more about it. Granted, they are cashing in on a cultural cool, but that's what architects do.
And the couple of designers in these offices who are skaters? Who cares? You'll get that kind of thing once in a while; people who do cool stuff and have jobs.
Nobody owns skateboarding as an entity, nobody controls it. Trying to protect it from "the man" is an exercise in futility. If the pretense of skateboarding is what you wear on your sleeve rather than the act of skateboarding, simply find a different undisturbed niche of pretense. Put down your skateboard and become a bicycle messenger . . . that one hasn't been hijacked by big architecture yet. Hurry up, though. It's bound to happen soon.
i think i was trying to say that the essence of street skateboarding has always been tobe creative with the ground you have, and not the other way around.... so i just dont see it the other way (architects designing for skateboarders feeding from what they can do in a building) because at the end skateboarding is about the use of "urban terrain" in as much possible ways as you can create/imagine.... thats why skateparks have never replaced street skateboarding, cause a skatepark of course is designed "for" skateboarding and/or certain tricks and/or abilities, but at the end, the street always has new and unexpected ways of being creative.... i suggest Zaera and Hadid to stop worrying about how skaters can feed up their design process and just focus on how they can contribute to the develop of skateboarding by making it harder to ride.....
i guess skateboarders get my point... its just so freakin' naive-STARchitect to pretend to control every human activity... gets in my nerves really
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No self-respecting skateboarder would ever admit to being an architect. This reeks of posing.
i am still a skateboarder and im a kickass architect also if u dont mind me saying it..... and bullshit about zaha and Zaera polo sying the "feedback of the skaters would be pairt of their design process"... c'mon zaha do you really know what's a skateboard?? do you know where to use it how to use it?? c'mon....
That's the point. They don't know anything about skateboarding, so they are making inquiries and using feedback to better understand. Ignorance of skateboarding is not a crime, nor is a desire to learn more about it. Granted, they are cashing in on a cultural cool, but that's what architects do.
And the couple of designers in these offices who are skaters? Who cares? You'll get that kind of thing once in a while; people who do cool stuff and have jobs.
Nobody owns skateboarding as an entity, nobody controls it. Trying to protect it from "the man" is an exercise in futility. If the pretense of skateboarding is what you wear on your sleeve rather than the act of skateboarding, simply find a different undisturbed niche of pretense. Put down your skateboard and become a bicycle messenger . . . that one hasn't been hijacked by big architecture yet. Hurry up, though. It's bound to happen soon.
i think i was trying to say that the essence of street skateboarding has always been tobe creative with the ground you have, and not the other way around.... so i just dont see it the other way (architects designing for skateboarders feeding from what they can do in a building) because at the end skateboarding is about the use of "urban terrain" in as much possible ways as you can create/imagine.... thats why skateparks have never replaced street skateboarding, cause a skatepark of course is designed "for" skateboarding and/or certain tricks and/or abilities, but at the end, the street always has new and unexpected ways of being creative.... i suggest Zaera and Hadid to stop worrying about how skaters can feed up their design process and just focus on how they can contribute to the develop of skateboarding by making it harder to ride.....
i guess skateboarders get my point... its just so freakin' naive-STARchitect to pretend to control every human activity... gets in my nerves really
got it. well put.
MADianito,
You just gave Zaha and Zaera the feedback they were looking for. That wasn't so painful, was it?
they should just do a zaha building and cover in in grip tape. smooth curves you could walk all over and skin your knee...
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