February 29, 2004
Architecture Site (and a cheap "Nyeaah! Nyeaah! Nyeaa!" on my part)
Metafilter points to an online contemporary architecture journal/portal: arcspace. Work on Gehry, Hadid, Koolhaas, Libeskind, and many, many more.(A relatively unrelated story I was reminded of by a visit to arcspace: Five years ago or so, I was giving a talk at IIT in the tech comm department on deconstructivist architecture and composition theory and practice; Much of IIT was designed by Mies van de Rohe (the campus is even the home of a Mies van der Rohe Society.
In the middle of my talk, which referenced deconstructivists such as Rem Koolhaas, a senior professor, seated about two feet from me, began muttering--in an amazingly loud voice--"I don't understand why someone would bother reading a bunch of washed-up junk theory..." and so on. While I was in the middle of the presentation, not in a conversational way, but in a MST 3000 Theatre sort of way.
The professor was so bitter about the rise of this new branch of architecture that I had problems keeping myself from laughing. We eventually started arguing about the tensions between modernism and postmodernism. It was a particularly mean-spirited argument, I thought, but I worked through it the best I could.
I enjoy the irony of the fact that Koolhaas is now completing the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at IIT.
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Posted by johndan at February 29, 2004 04:35 PM
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