Posts Tagged ‘Criticism’
The story of Hugh and Eva Buhrich is one of those grand narratives, the same epic kind of story that drives many a great film or novel. A young couple, each of them talented and committed to the art of architecture, are forced to leave Germany, flying before the winds of war and persecution. Assisted [...]
In the law of warfare, when it becomes clear that a given city can not be held against imminent invasion, its government may declare an “open city”. This declaration bears the expectation (or hope, since it has historically not always been respected) that the invading army, meeting no further resistance, will march in and occupy [...]
The model of the city of Sydney, now magnificently located beneath a glass floor in the main atrium space of the refurbished Customs House, is a particularly wonderful introduction to the actual city, and to the idea of the civic realm and the civic architectural project here. Even for someone inured with a professional architectural [...]
In 1979, in a formal ceremonial gesture, the architect and theorist Luc Deleu laid ‘the final stone of Belgium’ in the courtyard of the International Cultureel Centrum in Antwerp. His point was that Belgium was complete: the country was full, totally built up, and that there was no more room for architecture. This might seem [...]
Leon van Schaik has recently argued in his book Design City Melbourne that, for all its great qualities, Jørn Utzon’s Opera House has made little impact on the architectural culture of Sydney. In fact, he writes provocatively, it has had ‘as much consequence for the local design culture as if it were from Mars.’ There [...]
Over the past four hundred years or so, the interface between sculpture and architecture has been the subject of much discussion. There has been some amusement, as well: Marcel Duchamp famously quipped that the difference is that ‘one has plumbing’. More recently, Rafael Vignoly is reputed to have joked that the difference lies ‘in the [...]
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