Re: WAS: Dumping on Haha, Now: Architect's Real Work

>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

Now, now David, this is seriously important commentization.
Normativity? Not Christmas already? So much for temporalizationismists
like myself.

JW
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