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“Form ever follows function” (Louis Sullivan) contra positioned with “We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us” (Churchill)
In Residence Ep 15: “Ricardo Bofill” by Albert Moya
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“If design is merely an inducement to consume, then we must reject design; if architecture is merely the codifying of the bourgeois models of ownership and society, then we must reject architecture; if architecture and town planning [are] merely the formalization of present unjust social divisions, then we must reject town planning and its cities …... See more
solve architectural problems in a way that made an artistic statement at, he hoped, no cost to functional utility.
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
While watching Die Hard the other night—easily one of the best architectural films of the past 25 years—I kept thinking about an essay called “Lethal Theory” by Eyal Weizman—itself one of the best and most consequential architectural texts of the past decade (download the complete PDF).
Nakatomi Space
Le Corbusier’s early buildings in Paris, the Maison La Roche and the Maison Jeanneret and the Pavillon Suisse, as well as the Villa Savoye in suburban Poissy,
Paul Goldberger • Building Art
Natascha Folens, one such consultant, told me in 2016 that owners should embrace “the industrial look and the mid-century.” “As long as it doesn’t look cluttered and old,” she added.