Spectacularly staged in the Piano and Rogers building, the largest-ever Norman Foster retrospective paints a dashing self-portrait of the British starchitect.
Muz Yer, a permanent public exhibition in France, has invited 8 internationally-renowned architects to design birdhouses that highlight the relationship
stuff, (FF&E as we call it), the most likely to change.
Brand’s book outlines a litany of failures by architects in not heeding these changes: arguing they spend more time on the exterior than the interior (because the brief for uses is downplayed or ignored); they see buildings as fixed and final objects, inflexible and unadaptable; and they never go back to learn from what really happens in the life of the building. No post occupancy surveys are ever read.
He accuses architects of being obsessed with facades, (in which he identifies the etymology of both ‘face’ and failure’), and he excoriates the hero worship of the hero image in architectural magazines. Rather, he lauds the vernacular, such as found in Bernard Rudofsky s seminal
Shawn Adams: ‘This book made me reconsider how I view architecture’
1/5 Cliff dwelling known as Montezuma Castle , built and used by the Sinagua people, 1100-1425 AD
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2/5 Entire towns have been carved out of rock, above ground. The Göreme cones, in Cappadocia, Turkey, range from the size of a tent to a minor skyscraper with as many as 16 floors
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Shawn Adams reflects on the lessons of
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture, by Bernard Rudofsky
As The Museum of Modern Art preface puts it: ‘Architecture Without Architects introduces the reader to communal architecture – that is architecture produced not by specialists but by the spontaneous and continuing activity of a whole people with a common heritage, acting within a community of experience.’