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"Perhaps the most far-reaching implications for the profession, however, lie in formalism’s emphasis on the making of often compelling architectural images. Imitating conceptual art’s attempts to negate the material aspects of the artwork, architecture has premiated its schematic diagram and photogenic appearance, suppressing the material particulars of its construction. The invocation of conceptual architecture seemed to be accompanied by, or interpreted as, a marked lack of care given to the fabrication of the architectural object, the exigencies of the construction process, its material components, their methods of assembly, climate, weathering, and so on. Buildings constructed from these drawings often yielded a host of problems (like peeling paint, cracked tiles, water damage, and sloppy construction)."(8)
8. D.K. Dietsch here discusses the deteriorating condition of Michael Graves’s Portland Civic Building in “Postmodern Ruins,” Architecture, July 1997, 13, while Suzanne Frank recalls the various weather and construction related issues of Eisenman’s House VI in “The Client’s Response” in Peter Eisenman’s House VI: A Client’s Response (New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1994), 49–72. To be sure, many of these problems were a direct result of budgetary limitations and contractors unaccustomed to unconventional designs, but aren’t these factors also part of the architect’s professional responsibilities?
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- anonymous 2-17-2004 11:11 pm
"Perhaps the most far-reaching implications for the profession, however, lie in formalism’s emphasis on the making of often compelling architectural images. Imitating conceptual art’s attempts to negate the material aspects of the artwork, architecture has premiated its schematic diagram and photogenic appearance, suppressing the material particulars of its construction. The invocation of conceptual architecture seemed to be accompanied by, or interpreted as, a marked lack of care given to the fabrication of the architectural object, the exigencies of the construction process, its material components, their methods of assembly, climate, weathering, and so on. Buildings constructed from these drawings often yielded a host of problems (like peeling paint, cracked tiles, water damage, and sloppy construction)."(8)
8. D.K. Dietsch here discusses the deteriorating condition of Michael Graves’s Portland Civic Building in “Postmodern Ruins,” Architecture, July 1997, 13, while Suzanne Frank recalls the various weather and construction related issues of Eisenman’s House VI in “The Client’s Response” in Peter Eisenman’s House VI: A Client’s Response (New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1994), 49–72. To be sure, many of these problems were a direct result of budgetary limitations and contractors unaccustomed to unconventional designs, but aren’t these factors also part of the architect’s professional responsibilities?
- bill 2-18-2004 9:11 pm [1 comment]