We write letters (arch edition)
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libertangoJohn Massengale pointed to an article by Robert Adam in Building magazine (UK) called, "The idiot’s guide to architecture."
I knew I'd commented on the piece at the bottom of the web page. What I didn't know, until I just name checked myself in Factiva, looking for some references to stick into a cover letter for a job... What I didn't know is that Building has a feature on its pages, "Comment/First person - From the website."
It appears I'm quoted side-by-side with Andrés Duany, he of Duany Plater-Zyberk and the Congress for the New Urbanism. Also Dino Marcantonio.
{gulp}
Cool!
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Comment/First person - From the website.
9 January 2009
Building
28
English
© Copyright 2009. CMP Information Limited. All rights reserved.
The story
The Idiot's Guide to Architecture 12 December
Robert Adam's defence of pastiche found some sympathetic ears ...
What you thought
Dino Marcantonio: An excellent piece. Not only is traditional architecture perfectly modern, it has now taken up the "avant-garde" mantle. Only traditional architecture upsets the establishment.
Andres Duany: Only a society with religious intolerance in its history would want to ban an architectural style as if it were anathema. Incredibly, architects have come to revile each other's buildings on the basis of a quasi-theology of "modernity" rather than common sense. How, in an age that is enlightened enough to accept all creeds and races, is this tolerated by the better minds?
Hal O'Brien: The great irony, of course, is that "modern" architecture is itself a pastiche. It's been locked stylistically in the same place since at least the thirties, and its adherents are as fetishistic about staying within their nearly-a-century-old style as an American Civil War re-enactor making sure his uniform is nothing but carded wool.
I knew I'd commented on the piece at the bottom of the web page. What I didn't know, until I just name checked myself in Factiva, looking for some references to stick into a cover letter for a job... What I didn't know is that Building has a feature on its pages, "Comment/First person - From the website."
It appears I'm quoted side-by-side with Andrés Duany, he of Duany Plater-Zyberk and the Congress for the New Urbanism. Also Dino Marcantonio.
{gulp}
Cool!
*^*^*
Comment/First person - From the website.
9 January 2009
Building
28
English
© Copyright 2009. CMP Information Limited. All rights reserved.
The story
The Idiot's Guide to Architecture 12 December
Robert Adam's defence of pastiche found some sympathetic ears ...
What you thought
Dino Marcantonio: An excellent piece. Not only is traditional architecture perfectly modern, it has now taken up the "avant-garde" mantle. Only traditional architecture upsets the establishment.
Andres Duany: Only a society with religious intolerance in its history would want to ban an architectural style as if it were anathema. Incredibly, architects have come to revile each other's buildings on the basis of a quasi-theology of "modernity" rather than common sense. How, in an age that is enlightened enough to accept all creeds and races, is this tolerated by the better minds?
Hal O'Brien: The great irony, of course, is that "modern" architecture is itself a pastiche. It's been locked stylistically in the same place since at least the thirties, and its adherents are as fetishistic about staying within their nearly-a-century-old style as an American Civil War re-enactor making sure his uniform is nothing but carded wool.
