William Grey, of jargon, etc., has reviewed the new Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) building by May Lin Studio in New York.
William Grey, of jargon, etc., has reviewed the new Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) building by May Lin Studio in New York. Read
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i have asked this before, but never received a proper answer. is maya lin an architect, by which i mean is she licensed to practice? and another question is why did the museum of chinese in america choose her (and biliie tsien/tod williams before her) to "design" for them- was it just because of their being "chinese" and/or "asian"?
i thought she was a "landscape" architect, raymonde....
She's a licensed architect.
to the latter, i don't think there was any "JUST" about it.
to the former, who cares?
Well said, jump.
Hard to tell from the few images, but looking at them, and knowing Maya Lin's work, it seems like it might be pretty elegantly restrained and thus powerful. The storefront shot looks a little bit like a boutique, however.
raymonde, do you in this line of thought also mean that David Adjaye won the competition to build the National Museum of African American History 'just' because he is African, or that Daniel Libeskind won the Jewish Museum competition in Berlin 'just' because he is Jewish? please elaborate.
it would be incredibly naive to believe that the selection of a design/designer for a public project does not involve any sort of back-room politicking by various..."interest" groups.
i would have to certainly add david adjaye to that list, yes, indeed- he and the people who are executing the work is also led by an 'african american'- at least for this particular commission. but his past work seems interesting, at least when photographed.
as for libeskind, that is also within the realm of possibility, although it is an interesting building when visited.
back room politicking and race/gender aside, if these individuals hadn't been talented architects, they would not have won these projects. To imply otherwise in insulting.
being african and african american ain't the same thing at all. wtf?
i have heard conflicting rumors/facts about whether maya lin is licensed as an architect. i would have put my money that she is not. i remember seeing the martin luther king library? that she did and she only listed as 'designer', but under her studio "maya lin studio" (as opposed to maya lin architects, maya lin architecture, or some such). i will go ask various sources closer to her (and if her studio responds) and report back.
Not a licensed architect, Ms. Lin collaborated with a Tennessee firm, and her assistant, Stas Zakrzewski, served as go-between. ''I can't stamp the plans,'' she says, ''but I see them all.
according to a new york times article from april 1999
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/01/garden/the-mild-west-davy-crockett-meets-armani.html?scp=2&sq=maya%20lin%20march%201999&st=cse
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unless she somehow got a license in the past ten years? (highly doubtful)
License no license as long as the they have vision it doesn't matter. Sometimes many architecture students have vision and they're not licensed.
Architecture and politics go hand in hand but being an architecture forum I'd like to think the design itself and its nuances are more important than deliberating if she won because she is asian or not.
When you ask the question why did they choose her are you asking because you think she should have not won? If so then why? I think that's more important.
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