tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973215316119445314.post5231025611853775110..comments2024-02-15T06:40:00.335+01:00Comments on NOTES ON BECOMING A FAMOUS ARCHITECT: 74. Work for Rem Part II: Behrens vs KoolhaasConrad Newelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13361919565513238957noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973215316119445314.post-52508401875813490392011-05-03T14:36:58.844+02:002011-05-03T14:36:58.844+02:00Comparatively, reasons why many artists only becom...Comparatively, reasons why many artists only become famous posthumously is because of their lack of communication skills and dissemination channels. To become contemporary relevant today requires a media-centric approach that perhaps is detrimental to the profession.<br /><br />Architects seems to be so engulfed with the latest and greatest, but fail to realize the architectural products are most useful if it can withstand the test of time and serve its occupants' needs.<br /><br />The industry is actually quite sad as it becomes more like episodes of "Dancing with the Stars" then real societal development.<br /><br />-iiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973215316119445314.post-25632517421117893982011-04-03T23:11:10.438+02:002011-04-03T23:11:10.438+02:00Very interesting post, indeed.
Even though you c...Very interesting post, indeed. <br /><br />Even though you can count me in with those who think the current clique of starchitects are for the most part meager caricatures of the Gods of Modernism, I definitely hear what you say. <br /><br />It's just that one sometimes becomes so sick with some of their ego-driven pathetic shticks which so often have little to do with genuine architectural quality that you're tempted to put those old masters on maybe too high a pedestal. <br /><br />Since you never had the chance to meet them, you like to think of them as all classy and selfless.<br /><br />That being said, I do believe that many of our current stars actually really don't have the substance to last. <br /><br />Especially Hadid and most of the "Decontructivists" will probably fall by the wayside as fashionable and intellectually inflated entertainers rather than true visionaries of their discipline.<br /><br />With people like Ban, Ando, Lacaton/Vassal, maybe Ingels, that might be a different story, since their work seems to be more rooted in genuine striving for actual cultural and social advancement.<br /><br />Sorry for the rant, but I it's quite an emotional topic.<br />Keep up the good work, btw.Christiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973215316119445314.post-64815808499363100462011-04-03T22:09:21.232+02:002011-04-03T22:09:21.232+02:00I just found out your blog and it is amazing. The ...I just found out your blog and it is amazing. The new perspective on architecture is short-circuiting my brain cells. Thank you for liberating me :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3973215316119445314.post-91338892443837551552011-03-29T22:03:05.534+02:002011-03-29T22:03:05.534+02:00Amazing post, as usual!Amazing post, as usual!Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10143515765865670319noreply@blogger.com