www.quondam.com/50/4967.htm

Why does much 'avant-garde' design these days look straight out of the Sixties?
2006.04.01 14:24

In reading your first post here, I was reminded of being in a local 1960s Roman Catholic church for the first time a few years ago. I was actually quite surprised by it's "radical-ness". I mean, it was the first time I've ever seen a completely black altar in my life. There was indeed something radical about a lot of 60s and 70s architecture. (You'll see that most of Quondam's collection of unexecuted designs comes from 1964-1977.)

Regarding my work involving Piranesi's Ichnographia (starting 1987), it was done completely independent of Eisenman. Back in the early 1990s I was aware of Tafuri and Bloomer's work, and that's when I started to find thier mistakes. Then, by the end of the 1990s till now, you have Eisenman touting himself as the great understander of Piranesi's Ichnographia, and, quite frankly, it' disheartening to see such a fraud.

««««

»»»»