after a year in which environmental and societal
issues have been hauled up the political agenda across the world, even
within architecture - supposedly the form of culture most connected to
social and political topics, yet so often one ruled simply by money and ego
- the AR awards, with their tendency towards good honest, well made, but
still ambitious projects, seem not perverse, but stunningly prescient.
China, Dubai, Moscow or Kazakhstan apart, there’s a shift among many young
architects away from flash, if lucrative, bling buildings and towards, what?
The uniconic? The spiritual leader of this not-quite-movement, Swiss
architect Peter Zumthor, calls it slow architecture. Like slow food, this is
about local produce that tastes good. It’s about that hard-to-define idea,
integrity. Architecturally, it means back to basics building: providing
beautiful shelter, addressing human needs with architecture which has
longevity and presence, undeniably modern but also showing the mark of human
hand. Its response to the bombast, fakery and crash-bang-wallop of
globalisation is radical in its reactionariness.
Why Foster's Hearst Tower is no gherkin | Critique | Architectural Record
Page 2 of article (see previous bookmark: "Via A Daily Dose of Architecture (http://archidose.blogspot.com/), a pointer to a great article by Robert Campbell on why Foster's Hearst Tower is not a successful building.)
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Why Foster's Hearst Tower is no gherkin | Critique | Architectural Record
Via A Daily Dose of Architecture (http://archidose.blogspot.com/), a pointer to a great article by Robert Campbell on why Foster's Hearst Tower is not a successful building. (This bookmarks p.1, but there's a second page, too.) I like Campbell's allusion to our human proclivity for *resemblance* -- I think that's right, and it's what painting used to do with *likeness* too. We can pretend that we're past that, have outgrown it, etc., but it just wouldn't be true.
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Slow architecture that tastes good - Times Online
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