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Positive notes
2007.10.11 12:24
There are 11 positive notes within UN Studio: Design Models Architecture Urbanism Infrastructure by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos.
"Positive note 10b Then again (not to contradict ourselves), don't be shy! When all is said and done, architecture does take up a lot of space, so the least you can do is to say something. Make a statement, put across an idea. One of the reasons why we feel Mies van der Rohe is the most overrated architect of his time is that, besides having only one idea and continually repeating it, he said too little. Loos, Semper and Le Corbusier may have spoken into a void, but their opinions still resonate. It is the construction manager's role to be the silent hero, and that of the architect to be the desperate chatterer, full of bright ideas."
Perhaps Mies was just very, very modern, and thus very, very 20th century.
Perhaps the 21st century, as van Berkel and Bos somewhat suggest, is to be very, very infrastructural.
Perhaps the 21st century desperate chatterer is really the desperate self-linker.
I'm sure there are Negative notes too by a self-linker thinker.
"Positive note 10a Be glad that you will never be famous. ..."
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