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non-event cities
2006.02.15 10:32
You presented what I would call a honest history of CAC. And, going back to the King quotation at the top of the thread, you based the architecture on "structure" rather than "sensation".
It looks like King too is guilty of utilizing "buzz" in some instances. Perhaps journalism today just can't escape it, and that's why I see most media coverage of architecture as masked advertising. And before I'm misinterpreted here, I am not against advertising itself, rather I'm against not recognizing that most media coverage of architecture is advertising.
Also, so that my post about going to the Italian Market (in 1960) is not misinterpreted, the point there is that my parents were already doing "cool" urban things and going to "cool" urban places and unwittingly taking me on architectural tours all over Philadelphia. To them it was all just living in the city, and pretty much that's still all it is to me too. Just going to different places is eventful, and, ironically, media hype or buzz makes things less interesting to me.
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