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space of places.”
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
cities should be designed for people,
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
Notably, this theory completely omits the role of the real estate developer, who has a greater influence than anyone else in how a building comes together. Skyscrapers are designed by architects, but it’s the developer who conceives of the project, arranges the funding, hires the design team, and ultimately decides what the building will be. To me,... See more
Brian Potter • Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Similarly, famous modern architect Philip Johnson designed Pennzoil Place, which won many accolades for its design (it was described as the “Building of the Decade” by architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable), but its design was ultimately the result of feedback from developer Gerald Hines and Pennzoil chairman Hugh Liedtke1. From Raising the Bar ,... See more
Brian Potter • Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Frank almost never started a design with a predetermined shape. He liked to begin by “playing”—a word he used far more often than “working” when he talked about how he went about designing things—with wooden blocks of different sizes, each representing a portion of a building’s functional program. He would then stack or array the blocks in what he
... See morePaul Goldberger • Building Art
crisis of taste,