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 stylistic dichotomy between them. Phillip Kennicott, in an article examining Gehry’s body of work, wrote in this past Sunday’s Washington Post: as observers attempt to sum up his career and project his legacy, there is a growing sense that his most acclaimed work, buildings made in the style of Bilbao, have turned out to be dead ends. Rather than open up new possibilities for the architect, they seem to have left him in a rut. And as his most recent projects suggest, Gehry’s best work today may be his least “Gehryesque.” Yet, I have to wonder if the critique’s that have been written about these two buildings and their relationship to his work as a whole have missed the forest through the trees. The problem with analyzing Gehry’s work is that too often critics fall into the trap of comparing his buildings as individual works [...]

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Steel skin can hide volumes about an architect’s structure

Corbu, who?

spencer — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:46:39 +0000

Tomorrow is Black Friday, which means that the Holidays are right around the corner and with them comes the chore of finding the perfect gifts for those you are about. If you are searching for that modernist (or anti-modernist) in your life, you might think that the new biography of Le Corbusier by Nicholas Fox Weber would be the perfect gift. Hold back though, if Phillip Kennicott's review in this past Sunday's Washington Post Book Revue section, has any bearing, this new biography of one of the most famous and central figures in the modernist movement, Le Corbusier, might not be for you.

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Corbu, who?

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Steel skin can hide volumes about an architect’s structure

Corbu, who?