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CC image from MV Jantzen Last week’s City Paper cover story, a profile of DC architect Eric Colbert by Lydia DePillis, contains several jabs at Colbert’s not-so-daring designs: You may not remember precisely what they look like, though. They form a background blur in neighborhoods where much of Colbert’s work is clustered, blending together quietly in Continue reading Scale, urban design, and architecture (Mies’ Chicago Federal Plaza, with Alexander Calder’s Flamingo sculpture. A note about the lack of people in the plaza – this photo was taken with a temperature of about -5 degrees and a wind chill well below that. Author’s photo) Today, Lydia DePillis has a guest post from Kriston Capps offering a well-put defense of DC’s Continue reading Some for you, some for Mies – a defense of DC’s MLK Library Museo Guggenheim Bilbao – from La Tête Krançien Mammoth directs our attention to this post from LA Times architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne, talking about the systemic flaws of lists of the best buildings (and architecture criticism in general): When Vanity Fair magazine recently released the results of a survey ranking the most significant pieces of architecture of Continue reading Things that matter From Catherine V on flickr Can’t help but mention this – from the UK’s Independent, a conversation with architect (but not a fucking starchitect, damn it) Frank Gehry: (hat tip – planetizen) “I don’t know who invented that fucking word ‘starchitect’. In fact a journalist invented it, I think. I am not a ‘star-chitect’, I am Continue reading Gehry to Planners: Drop Dead |
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