Jacques Derrida died yestrday:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3729844.stm
There was challenging discussion of Derrida and architecture
here around 1994 et seq, along with Heidegger, Sartre and
several other of Derrida's presursors and contemporaries
who suggested that architecture was far more than a
business racket owned and operated by professional
cartelists such as the AIA and overseas simians.
Is there a comparable philosopher challengin designers and
architects today? Or have the stars and their incoherent
blather established hegemony, rather so rotted architectural
philosophy, aesthetics and ethics such that product promoters
and real estate developers applaud deliriously?
Poor Columbia, so bereft of ideas and courage that it has appointed
a museum flack to head the architecture school. To be sure, that
could be a corrective to the commercially vapid regimes of Polshek
and Tschumi -- both of whom made no secret of using the school
to promote their practices at the financial-media-pr center of the
world.
Columbia is shrewd about using New York City as compensation
for what the university cannot provide. It is, of course, officially
named as Columbia University in the City of New York, as if
double branding will persuade.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3729844.stm
There was challenging discussion of Derrida and architecture
here around 1994 et seq, along with Heidegger, Sartre and
several other of Derrida's presursors and contemporaries
who suggested that architecture was far more than a
business racket owned and operated by professional
cartelists such as the AIA and overseas simians.
Is there a comparable philosopher challengin designers and
architects today? Or have the stars and their incoherent
blather established hegemony, rather so rotted architectural
philosophy, aesthetics and ethics such that product promoters
and real estate developers applaud deliriously?
Poor Columbia, so bereft of ideas and courage that it has appointed
a museum flack to head the architecture school. To be sure, that
could be a corrective to the commercially vapid regimes of Polshek
and Tschumi -- both of whom made no secret of using the school
to promote their practices at the financial-media-pr center of the
world.
Columbia is shrewd about using New York City as compensation
for what the university cannot provide. It is, of course, officially
named as Columbia University in the City of New York, as if
double branding will persuade.
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