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John,
I just read your post on the de-conners, et. al. My reply is
"HUH?" but I think I know what you're getting at. De-con
scares me, but that is not to say that the issues of
experience and meaning aren't important. They are.
I may be unsophisticated, but I don't believe that De-Con does
anything but sell books and lectures and serves as an excuse
to design anywhichway. Like Eisenman who feels he must
"create" a site archaeology. What about the real one?
Gehry, on the other hand, is joyful---all play of materials and
forms with little need to publish a book to explain his latest
work. As he refuses to be overly (and overtly) "intellectual"
about his work, he is not considered a true "de-conner." Which
is just as well.
Human experience is far and away varied and rich enough to
support an architecture that touches the soul without the
prerequisite purchase of the
latest-and-greatest-bought-it-at-Rizzoli-for-seventy-bucks-disser
tation-on-
some-literary-construct-that-passes-for-an-explanation-of-the-mea
ning-of-life- book.
BTW, the next issue of the Ball State AIAS newsletter (i'm the
unfortunate slug who edits it) will have as its theme:
"ARE EISENMAN AND GEHRY THE BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD OF
ARCHITECTURE?"
We'll see...
Mark
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John,
I just read your post on the de-conners, et. al. My reply is
"HUH?" but I think I know what you're getting at. De-con
scares me, but that is not to say that the issues of
experience and meaning aren't important. They are.
I may be unsophisticated, but I don't believe that De-Con does
anything but sell books and lectures and serves as an excuse
to design anywhichway. Like Eisenman who feels he must
"create" a site archaeology. What about the real one?
Gehry, on the other hand, is joyful---all play of materials and
forms with little need to publish a book to explain his latest
work. As he refuses to be overly (and overtly) "intellectual"
about his work, he is not considered a true "de-conner." Which
is just as well.
Human experience is far and away varied and rich enough to
support an architecture that touches the soul without the
prerequisite purchase of the
latest-and-greatest-bought-it-at-Rizzoli-for-seventy-bucks-disser
tation-on-
some-literary-construct-that-passes-for-an-explanation-of-the-mea
ning-of-life- book.
BTW, the next issue of the Ball State AIAS newsletter (i'm the
unfortunate slug who edits it) will have as its theme:
"ARE EISENMAN AND GEHRY THE BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD OF
ARCHITECTURE?"
We'll see...
Mark