Charles de Gaulle said that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. I feel the same way about architects.
Galeti Tavas
2 years ago
I speak as a Carpenter – architects are universally despised by construction workers. Who would put a light fixture in the middle of a run of a 14 foot long set of stairs on a 12 foot ceiling? So the painter, electrician, sheet rock finisher, and any bulb changer, must either spend a lot of time setting up safe stages to get to it – or just balance dangerously off a ladder on the stairs as time is money?
Anyway – I think his stuff may be interesting, may be art, but it is not something I would like – I guess it is interesting… but Modernity from what I get is more industrial revolution till 1980s, and is therefore traditionalism in our society. His work seems more postmodernity, which as you may know, is conjoined with postmodernism, as a refutation of all which created us, and based on the new dialectic of Intersectionality – which is almost completely anti-humanity.
And the writer fails to give us the story the headline said was coming
“Roger’s most important work was not his architecture” and then only gives us “But, while Rogers’ buildings remain his most discussed contribution to modernity, I hope the most influential will turn out to be his advocacy of traditional urbanism. He was chair of the critical 1999 Urban Task Force which first made the important case for re-investing in the liveability of city centres.”
And nothing said of what this meant. Did he make Jetsons kind of futuristic towers, or Underground Hives? What is this “Traditional Urbanism” he created? We have no idea, just that they were his most important work.
I think he needs a new architectural classification- Techno-Brutalism.
William MacDougall
2 years ago
The Lloyds building is a good symbol of the problem with his architecture: the Council of Lloyds recreated the old classical meeting room on the 11th floor for themselves. Couldn’t they have recreated the old building for the rest of us?
Ian Stewart
2 years ago
His designs are of their time, and they will be found very wanting in due course, since this recent time has been so shallow and lacking in spiritual values.
Charles de Gaulle said that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. I feel the same way about architects.
I speak as a Carpenter – architects are universally despised by construction workers. Who would put a light fixture in the middle of a run of a 14 foot long set of stairs on a 12 foot ceiling? So the painter, electrician, sheet rock finisher, and any bulb changer, must either spend a lot of time setting up safe stages to get to it – or just balance dangerously off a ladder on the stairs as time is money?
Anyway – I think his stuff may be interesting, may be art, but it is not something I would like – I guess it is interesting… but Modernity from what I get is more industrial revolution till 1980s, and is therefore traditionalism in our society. His work seems more postmodernity, which as you may know, is conjoined with postmodernism, as a refutation of all which created us, and based on the new dialectic of Intersectionality – which is almost completely anti-humanity.
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And the writer fails to give us the story the headline said was coming
“Roger’s most important work was not his architecture” and then only gives us “But, while Rogers’ buildings remain his most discussed contribution to modernity, I hope the most influential will turn out to be his advocacy of traditional urbanism. He was chair of the critical 1999 Urban Task Force which first made the important case for re-investing in the liveability of city centres.”
And nothing said of what this meant. Did he make Jetsons kind of futuristic towers, or Underground Hives? What is this “Traditional Urbanism” he created? We have no idea, just that they were his most important work.
I think he needs a new architectural classification- Techno-Brutalism.
The Lloyds building is a good symbol of the problem with his architecture: the Council of Lloyds recreated the old classical meeting room on the 11th floor for themselves. Couldn’t they have recreated the old building for the rest of us?
His designs are of their time, and they will be found very wanting in due course, since this recent time has been so shallow and lacking in spiritual values.