2005 pritzker to t mayne - hopefully selma can tell us if this is a good thing
Hi bill:
Your link isn't linking. Was it to the NYT's piece?
here is a chronology of his projects with images.
He will be coming to NYC soon too with a new building for Cooper Union. And, if it ever happens, the NY2012 Olympic villiage. His website has a lot of images: www.morphosis.net
thanks for the nyt link. i had linked to the la times which usually requires a sign in. i picked it up from todays archnewsnow which had a slew of links on the subject.
last year was zaha, and we got a lot of milage out of that. cummon what do we think ?
um, in general I like his work..?.
He doesn't seem to have a very defined design vocabulary, which isn't a bad thing, not at all, but it makes it hard to talk about his aesthetic. I worry for the sanity of kids coming out of the Diamond ranch school. I think Cooper will be interesting. I liked the environmental angle of caltrans - in theory. In terms of who he is, he is a 'LA bad boy.' He is often stereotyped as a mini Gehry. okay, someone elses turn. bill, what do you think?
i saw a documentary marathon on the history channel on the construction of caltrans a little while back. i liked the building and the de-constructive process of watching it built by episode. foundation, frame, skin, hvac, etc. i wish they would have run them in reverse order so you could go backwards in time (unbuilding) instead of repeating time (rebuilding). nice use of metal scrim in the warm california sun. it seams somewhat more restrained than the rest of his work i saw at the link you posted. in general those po-mo guys leave me cold. most of the eccentric details look high maintenance and thats disturbing to me. in the case of caltrans bldg the eccentric details are part of a more functionalist design and i can live with that. the automated perforated scrim panels are intended to open and close as needed, shielding the building from direct sun. but they have the visual effect of eccentric geometrical re-combining compositions.
yes 'cold,' and I would add too many sharp angles (did you see the chair he designed, under 'products' on his website? yikes!)
having trouble with the term maverick
Thom who? (thommy can you hear me?)
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- bill 3-21-2005 7:16 pm
Hi bill:
Your link isn't linking. Was it to the NYT's piece?
- selma 3-21-2005 9:40 pm [add a comment]
here is a chronology of his projects with images.
He will be coming to NYC soon too with a new building for Cooper Union. And, if it ever happens, the NY2012 Olympic villiage. His website has a lot of images: www.morphosis.net
- selma 3-21-2005 9:55 pm [add a comment]
thanks for the nyt link. i had linked to the la times which usually requires a sign in. i picked it up from todays archnewsnow which had a slew of links on the subject.
- bill 3-21-2005 9:56 pm [add a comment]
last year was zaha, and we got a lot of milage out of that. cummon what do we think ?
- bill 3-21-2005 9:58 pm [add a comment]
um, in general I like his work..?.
He doesn't seem to have a very defined design vocabulary, which isn't a bad thing, not at all, but it makes it hard to talk about his aesthetic. I worry for the sanity of kids coming out of the Diamond ranch school. I think Cooper will be interesting. I liked the environmental angle of caltrans - in theory. In terms of who he is, he is a 'LA bad boy.' He is often stereotyped as a mini Gehry. okay, someone elses turn. bill, what do you think?
- selma 3-21-2005 10:11 pm [add a comment]
i saw a documentary marathon on the history channel on the construction of caltrans a little while back. i liked the building and the de-constructive process of watching it built by episode. foundation, frame, skin, hvac, etc. i wish they would have run them in reverse order so you could go backwards in time (unbuilding) instead of repeating time (rebuilding). nice use of metal scrim in the warm california sun. it seams somewhat more restrained than the rest of his work i saw at the link you posted. in general those po-mo guys leave me cold. most of the eccentric details look high maintenance and thats disturbing to me. in the case of caltrans bldg the eccentric details are part of a more functionalist design and i can live with that. the automated perforated scrim panels are intended to open and close as needed, shielding the building from direct sun. but they have the visual effect of eccentric geometrical re-combining compositions.
- bill 3-21-2005 10:50 pm [add a comment]
yes 'cold,' and I would add too many sharp angles (did you see the chair he designed, under 'products' on his website? yikes!)
- selma 3-21-2005 10:55 pm [add a comment]
having trouble with the term maverick
- bill 3-22-2005 6:31 pm [add a comment]
Thom who? (thommy can you hear me?)
- bill 3-23-2005 6:16 pm [add a comment]