architects

[gfish]

What does it say that I can't think of a single architect by name that I like, yet three that I despise jump instantly to mind? What is it about architecture that attracts such profound depths of wankery? It seems like other industries manage to combine function and aesthetics with at least some success and only a very small fraction of the pretension.

(For the record: Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry and Le Corbusier, in order of increasing bile.)

Comments

[gfish.livejournal.com]

I'm told there is a dorm at MIT with only vertical stairway links, instead of hallways. Ugh.

As for Fuller, I didn't even think of him. I don't classify him primarily as an architect in my mind.

[ilmarinen.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't think of him as an architect. He was a wacky inventor type, back when such people could still garner some respect. And some of his ideas for building were just wacky. (eg. prefab mushroom-looking towers brought in by zeppelin, the foundation would be excavated by dropping a bomb from the airship.)