From: Brian Carroll
To: design-l
Subject: Re: venturi and koolhaas
Date: 2002.04.17 11:44
if Koolhaas is considered 'the greatest architectural thinker of our time', it is curious why the ideas of this thinker are not apparent, beyond what is stated in a journalistic article and basic critique of status-quoism.
that is, if a 5-pound architectural bible is produced, could it be considered more of that of an architect-as-artist-book, an art-book, per se, architectural performance art, even, than anything to do with investigating the built environment in 'radical ways' of politics that seem, well, conveniently simple.
could anyone explain the great architectural thought of this architectural thinker/doer..? and is there anyway to transmit this to the rest of the profession, the Koolhaasian enigma?
bc
[odd, always thought venturi & denise-scott-brown (and the other person, whose name i have forgotten) had questioned 'architectural order' (of the Las Vegas strip, for example, in their research texts.]
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