Christopher Hawthorne on Zumthor being awarded the Pritzker Prize: [T]he Pritzker jury's decision to honor him this year represents an endorsement of architecture's most timeless, as opposed to timely, qualities. It is a boost for the idea that architecture is fundamentally an aesthetic rather than a political profession. A fine art rather than a social one. An end rather than a means. LAT | prev. | related 1 | 2
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I find it interesting that a number of critics seem to be taking a similar position. Namely that while as an aesthetic/artistic concern architecture as exemplified by Zumthor is great and thus he is deserving of the award, in giving him the award the Pritzker judges were emphasizing and looking to architecture of the past not the future (political?) architecture..
i find hawthorne's use of the term political both confusing and opportunistic.
are there bigger assclowns than old media architecture critics?
Uh, LA Times: "Culture Monster"? Yeah, right.
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