Steel skin can hide volumes about an architect’s structure

spencer — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:09:34 +0000

Frank O. Gehry, there is no other practicing architect who has as much name recognition amongst laymen and who can cause such distress amongst architects. With his two recent projects (the Princeton Lewis Science Library and an addition to the Art Gallery of Ontario) open to the public there has been much talk about the [...]

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Steel skin can hide volumes about an architect’s structure

Architect as artist

spencer — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:35:33 +0000

In the past century we have seen the rise of polytechnic architecture, a method of building which divorces the architect from the world of art and creativity, and instead treats buildings as solutions to engineering problems and casts architects in the role of project managers, facade coordinators and space planners.Â Working and living within this [...]

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Architect as artist

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Steel skin can hide volumes about an architect’s structure

Architect as artist