Farshid Moussavi, partner in Foreign Office Architects, starts the introductory essay in her book with a denial of Louis Sullivan’s aphorism form follows function, and then asks: if not function, what does form follow? Book review @ bd
"As that word “affective” might suggest, her philosophical guide is Gilles Deleuze — nothing wrong with that — but it has left her text groaning beneath the weight of academic verbiage."
Farshid Moussavi, partner in Foreign Office Architects, starts the introductory essay in her book with a denial of Louis Sullivan’s aphorism form follows function, and then asks: if not function, what does form follow? Book review @ bd
"As that word “affective” might suggest, her philosophical guide is Gilles Deleuze — nothing wrong with that — but it has left her text groaning beneath the weight of academic verbiage."
1 Comment
Yes, it is truly pompous book full of grand words and no substance: affect, novelty... yuk, how wet can you get? No interest, no imagination, no conclusions. A pretension of theory. A lot of work for nothing.
You have to give her that she manages to get the GSD kids to work their ass off for her publications though. And everything is drawn with a nearly fascist aura of precision, to hide a dramatic lack of true ideas. She should be made to pay the students to do her work. Can someone tell me what is this book about other than pretending that she is an intellectual?
Block this user
Are you sure you want to block this user and hide all related comments throughout the site?
Archinect
This is your first comment on Archinect. Your comment will be visible once approved.