The Smithsons are fascinating. Their visions were loved by the architects, but in reality, their uncompromising designs and sheer scale rendered them inhuman and intimidating. I love their work for its sheer audacity, but I have never lived in these kinds of estates, if I had, I would probably have a different opinion entirely.
Não há educação suficiente para notar que o que é público é de todos e deve ser cuidado por todos, nessas situações o espaço público é visto como um lugar sem dono.
I’ve been to prison twice and I wrote a novel while there. It’s called American Creamy. Let me explain something to you very clearly- some people must be separated from the society at large. And public education isn’t going to do squat if the nuclear family is destroyed. Communism is ugly. It makes me weep that people with good minds are seduced by it. You are utter fools, and Angela Davis is the biggest fool of them all, save Foucault whom she referenced. Go read a book fool. Like A Clockwork Orange. That is the kind of world you are trying to curse us with.
Read Marie-Louise Richards' full Reputations essay on Angela Davis in The Architectural Review here: www.architectural-review.com/essays/reputations/angela-davis-1944
Read Marie-Louise Richards' full Reputations essay on Angela Davis in The Architectural Review here: www.architectural-review.com/essays/reputations/angela-davis-1944
You can read a full building study of the Royal Academy of Dance, for which Frewen was awarded the 2024 Moira Gemmill Prize for Excellence in Practice at www.architectural-review.com/awards/w-awards/2024-w-awards/royal-academy-of-dance-in-london-uk-by-takero-shimazaki-architects 🩰
You can read more about Monteiro’s practice in a full Portfolio story published in the AR, including studies of three of her buildings in Brazil at www.architectural-review.com/awards/w-awards/2024-w-awards/portfolio-noelia-monteiro-estudio-flume 🚤
She certainly is a lady ahead of her time … MashaAllah! I’m quite impressed by her talent & would like to see her build a building in Baltistan following her expertise design of construction for some villagers. How do we get in touch with her ?
Many of the new builds are there now and nothing like the towers shown in the video. Much better proportioned, contemporary standard dwellings with decent public spaces and shops too.
It’s perfectly framed in the city and the region. I know Évora and the city is beautiful and the houses are beautifully painted white. A very good mix of Roman, medieval, gothic and Renaissance.
We went to look around RHGs a year or so before the ethnic cleansing began. We didn’t go in the building itself. I found it to be a quiet place punctuated with the sound of those heavy security doors closing from time to time. There wasn’t anything particularly bad about the place, it was just a place, and the gardens within the centre were a welcome sanctuary from the surroundings. The thing i particularly liked about RHGs is the way that the building was a series of decoupled stacked cubes that snaked along the side of the site. Most negative views of this type of architecture focus on the way it looks but if the spaces work for the inhabitants then that is the most important thing which judging by the narration that is the case here.
Imagine living in 1935, everyone living in a wooden house, you have your land and when you somehow have free time, you would use your 80dB gramophone without volume control, BUT... If you would get that horrible disease, you would end up in a place which looks like it has been designed in 2077. STUNNING architecture.
Until recently I lived within 5 minutes walk of Robin Hood Gardens and did so for 15 years. Robin Hood Gardens is a monstrosity. As a place to live in it monumentally failed, and that is the only metric by which housing should be judged. It's interesting that the campaign to save this horrible place came from the architecture world and fans of the Smithsons, and not from the poor people who had to live in it.
revolutionary absolutely revolutionary. This is the answer to the problems so many communities face especially those that suffer from gang violence, drug issues, poor public education, taking care of children while trying to find work. This is the next step in bettering our impoverished communities.
