On Mon, 6 Feb 1995, Stephen Perrella wrote:
> Garry, Zaha's work attempts to vitalize a sense of immobility in stasis
> architecture. In your view it seems that anyone who attempts to question
> or manipulate cartesian architecture somehow alienates those that do not
> have. If Zaha's work is about EVENT or the temporalization of the subject
> as opposed to IDENTITY in and object, how can her swerve away from
> normativity not be an attempt to generate an architecture of
> immateriality: that anyone could RELATE to?
And here I've sat---fat, dumb and happy---and thought that it was the
architect's job to design a building that kept out the elements and made
people feel comfortable at whatever they are doing in that building. How
naive of me!! :)
David
> Garry, Zaha's work attempts to vitalize a sense of immobility in stasis
> architecture. In your view it seems that anyone who attempts to question
> or manipulate cartesian architecture somehow alienates those that do not
> have. If Zaha's work is about EVENT or the temporalization of the subject
> as opposed to IDENTITY in and object, how can her swerve away from
> normativity not be an attempt to generate an architecture of
> immateriality: that anyone could RELATE to?
And here I've sat---fat, dumb and happy---and thought that it was the
architect's job to design a building that kept out the elements and made
people feel comfortable at whatever they are doing in that building. How
naive of me!! :)
David