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Preach on, brother Andrew! 
I’ve felt like I graduated with a prejudice against engineers (uncreative, dull, uptight, unsociable) and developers (greedy, exploitive, disinterested in our “higher” values).  When the relationship is set up like that, no wonder it is dysfunctional! My interest in the field was heavily influenced by what I saw in the…[Read more]

Sorry but, I have heard that “masters of all” jargon from architects.  It is a total turnoff.  Showing your benefit as a vital team member is a process.  You don’t proclaim yourself as master until you have earned it.

I’m curious what the general feeling is about this.
my experience leans towards out-sourcing.  Gives better results for the investment of time/energy.  Though admittedly we will actually go to a render company’s office for landscape (because no one can quite get the green stuff right) to tweak camera angles, add in photoshop landscape components a…[Read more]

Amanda, I have been working in residential design for years and in my experience hourly is the only way to go, especially for the conceptual or design development phase. You hit the problem right on the head. If you and the client are not jiving by the completion of the conceptual phase, then really it won’t work between you anyway and it is time…[Read more]

You can also try the famous Vitra, they manufacture beautiful products from great designers. I don’t think they have benches, but they do have some outdoor chairs and tables

Hi James, I think I know what you are looking for
http://www.architonic.com/pmpro/public-space/3210021/2/2/1

the two should converge…..
all buildings are not architecture….

I think what piques my interest is the future..If you know any young people, they are all about their image, they are oN top of it – I am wondering if this ‘stage centered’ starchitecture (all image, no function) is what they will like..

The point the author is making, I think, is that in Gehry and Zaha Hadid, function is absolutely nowhere, the canvas and the stage are the predominant form..
 
(Piano and Calatrava are different..)..He is saying that the stage, the painting, are paramount for these BUILDING designers – they could care less about humans or the environment..
It is…[Read more]

When you look at a Gehry, Meier, Piano, or Calatrava, are you not looking at art? The sculptural elements are all there. The careful arrangements of volumes, the colors, and material choices, just as Michelangelo carving marble would do. It is the same as it ever was. Inspiration is a moot point, as the same exists in painting or sculpture. P…[Read more]

Architecture is as artsy as it wants to be. I think the obvious difference between architecture and art is function. If somethings function includes being ground breaking, new, or expensive then art has a lot to do with the function of the architecture, however if the function is to not stand out, be economical or cheap then architecture is not…[Read more]

So do you consider Zaha Hadid a good designer? How about Gehry? Ever tried to negotiate their buildings, as a human being?
Compare and contrast their philosophy of design to the ‘organic ‘ architecture of good old Frank LLoyd Wright. Different or the same? In what way?

?  Is this supposed to be a criticism of modernism or post-modernism?  Art has traditionally pushed the bounds of a cultural “comfort zone,”  literature and afterwards architecture tends to take on their own take.  Foster’s point can seem valid in light of Bauhaus and it’s influences, but even then the art was informed by spatial composition (ev…[Read more]

As a fairly recent grad (2009), I can’t disagree…while in school, I definitely jumped on the bus. 
My first job out set me straight, though- quickly realized that my job was to make the site work as intended (in that case, school grounds), not push unnecessary agendas.  I’ve been fortunate enough to find plenty of work, and now that I’m in the r…[Read more]

Jason, I think what you describe is historically accurate but not necessarily relevant to this essay, or to these times. We are a long way from the beautiful frieze on the Parthenon, and from construction methods like those used for the Parthenon, when your words were undoubtably true.
I think Burle Marx taking his inspiration from painting p…[Read more]

That, and the site redesign…

well would like to thank to all who shared the necessary information with me which helped me for the formulation of my thesis topic. 
well my topic is coming out like –
 Landscape development for Crematoriums in Pune city.

Sounds like a bad term paper to me.
The whole premise that architecture IS art has been settled since the Greeks of antiquity. Architecture is indeed a fine art, in fact it is considered the “Mother Art” from which all other classifications and media developed from. Classical architecture also combines the various art forms of painting, sculpting…[Read more]

This brings to mind the “cloud through the twin towers” debate going on about the design of a proposed building in S. Korea that seems to some people to resemble the 9/11 tragedy. The architects claim it is unintended. There are other articles than this link which show the connection area with lots of gardens, which I guess lets me ties it into an…[Read more]

Read the posts on this forum. It is pretty clear. It has been quieter lately, but if you look for the threads with the highest numbers of posts, I think you might find some of that bitterness there.