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Monthly Archives: April 2011
HL23: Ouroussoff on the open road
As Nicolai Ouroussoff explains in his recent review of HL23, Neil Denari is an architect we don’t hear much about. I’ve followed the construction progress of this building which stands next to the High Line on 23rd street, and I … Continue reading
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Tagged critic review, HL23, Neil Denari, New York Times, Nicolai Ouroussoff
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Vera Sacchetti talks to Eduardo Souto de Moura
For a great piece on 2011 Pritzker Prize winner Eduardo Souto de Moura, take a look at Vera Sacchetti’s article in Architect’s Newspaper: http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5308 Or visit the link below to read Vera’s exclusive interview with Souto de Moura: http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5313
Book Review: Building Up and Tearing Down
“Evaluating how a building looks and how it works as a physical object will always be the core of the architecture critic’s obligation. My point is only to say that if the critic’s responsibility begins with considering the building as … Continue reading
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Tagged Astor Place Tower, Book Review, Gwathmey Siegel, Michael Sorkin, Paul Goldberger
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Robert Campbell on Architecture Criticism
The Huffington Post published an interview with Boston Globe’s architecture critic Robert Campbell. What are the foundations of good architectural criticism? “Oh, I guess visiting and knowing many buildings and other places of many eras and cultures, and understanding the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston Globe, critic review, Huffington Post, Robert Campbell
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When Editors Say Something
Usually a “Letter from the Editor” summarizes a magazine’s content. Editor’s present the works we’re about to read, but say surprisingly little about why it was included (beyond the fact that the project just opened). If the editor-in-chief can’t manage … Continue reading
On Starchitecture: Glancey vs. Scruton
Jonathan Glancey at the Guardian reacts to Roger Scruton’s opinion article on starchitecture: “Roger Scruton is a perceptive thinker and can write beautifully, but faced with buildings he finds incomprehensible he sounds like the Alf Garnett of architectural theory.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/14/roger-scruton-architecture-zaha-hadid
Paul Goldberger on the Future
A few weeks ago, I talked about Future Plans in architecture. We see one long-term plan after the other, all making promises with an expected completion date in a few decades. In this month’s Metropolis Magazine, Paul Goldberger discusses a … Continue reading
Architecture: “pretentious gobbledegook.”
This is what philosopher Roger Scruton says of most architecture today. In an opinion piece in The Times this past weekend, Scruton criticized starchitects (specifically naming Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman and Rem … Continue reading
On Kamin
I talked about Blair Kamin a few months ago, when featuring his response to the Chicago mayoral elections. I praised him for bringing up important city-wide issues and, unlike some other newspaper critics, not getting sidetracked by glossy renderings of … Continue reading
On Criticism 