archkre Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 In the 80's the Post-Modernism with Aldo Rossi, Robert Venturi, among others; Neo racionalist with the Rogers & Piano, New York 5 (Richard Meier,John Hejduk, Charles Gwatmey,etc.) In the 90's the Deconstructivism with Zaha Hadid among others And what is going on nowadays? Thank you1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Zaha is at the peak of her career, just winning the pritzer and being a finalist in several HUGE projects (including two, one she lost to Gehry, in my homestate of Connecticut). Gehry is still large. Koolhaas is at the peak of his career, as well, with the Seattle Library being completed and other large projects in the works. Herzog and de Meuron are larger than ever. Morphosis has huge projects under construction as well. Basically, it's about the same as it was several years ago, but instead of these architects being limited to 'paper', they are building, and building big! The biggest news, imo, is the resurgence of modernism, a la Dwell, and the slow (but timely) death of all things Maya (like Greg Lynn, although he's still 'big', he hasn't done anything in many years). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgarcia Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 I agree with what Markus as said here...blobs are boring and dead. They give no scale to the human figure, which is a very important idea of architecture: human scale. (whatever happened to Neil Denari?) Keep your finger on the pulse of current (& future) architecture (& design in general) over at the new-n-improved archinect.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Mann Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 whatever happened to Neil Denari? Neil Denari became head at Sci Arc back in about 1998. Gyroscopic Horizons came about c1999 and since then I do know that he got some built work...an opticians in California. A small start, but these things take time, just look at Peter Cook and the Graz job. As for trends, I think all the labels that got stuck on people in the 80's and 90's took over. People will avoid using terms to categorise trends and fashions now. After all, who wants to get stuck with an old fashioned label. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archkre Posted August 10, 2004 Author Share Posted August 10, 2004 You told me about people, but I'd like to know what "arch. theory is now "going on"(what *.ism, what ideas?" Here in South Florida everything is so flat ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kid Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 sounds like you have flatism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archkre Posted August 10, 2004 Author Share Posted August 10, 2004 Lousy answer for a veteran member of this Forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgarcia Posted August 10, 2004 Share Posted August 10, 2004 Danny, I suggest you start visiting other sites more specifically geared towards architectural thought vs. architectural cg. Check out this link for more resources. You could also start checking out architectural journals / magazines such as El Croquis, Quaderns, A+U (or U+A forgot which one it is), Domus, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IC Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Flatism! hehe I quite like that actually. Is it a lousy answer because someone's not taking you as seriously as you'd like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Matthews Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Unfortunately, I am still in school and see classmates basically duplicating exactly what they see. So many projects with folds in them are becoming very mundane. The "box" is also a reoccurring theme. As for the real world where I am at...I hate Mediterranean architecture. It is all people want to see in Vero Beach, land of the local, richy, more dollars then sense folks. Xavier, what did happen to human scale? So many projects at the schooling level lack scale of all proportions. -Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Mann Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Is it a lousy answer because someone's not taking you as seriously as you'd like? That would be sarcism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgarcia Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Practice makes perfect I guess, Jason. I always went for human scale through the detailing (railings, furniture layout, how columns touch the floor, corridor heights, etc.) Are you working for the summer? Shoot me an email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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