INCUBATOR OF CREATIVE ARCHITECTURE A series of online lectures on architecture, from ancient architecture to contemporary architecture and experimental works. We celebrate the birthdays of famous architects. Hosted by architect Dan Coma.
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at last an equal to the magnificent historian Bastian Valkenburg (1918 - 1992) architects would do well to allot a similar measure of time equal to that which is devoted to assimilating the latest technology
it is difficult to worry about using steel for its lack of sustainability and then praise such wilful architecture - because it uses so much more material than it would have done had it undergone close editorial criticism or even self-reflection during the design process. I decided the Scots Parliament was so poor (and again materially wasteful) that Pinos must have been the brains in the Pinos/Miralles practice, so much of it is so unconvincing even just 'graphically'. But its expensive graphics..... p.s. I suspect Gottfried Semper's education in, and knowledge of Latin and Ancient Greek was very sound indeed.
This solipsistic product of the architectural aristocracy, so perfectly represents why architecture is and will remain, nothing more than a nice possession to have for the wealthy. The awarding of a Pritzker Prize to this work, seriously and significantly undermines the standing of that achievement.
Worse than cutting down trees is the pretension to approach indigenous people with such primitive-like kitsch structure and then feel good about yourself being involved. Or is it an original Mapuche construction transported as it is to Venice? A futile gesture.
Thank you for the video! What is the 18 volumes of books on the history of architecture that Pier Luigi Nervi initiated called? I can´t seem to find it...
it is Liverpool Cathedral, have a look at the finished building ..... Mackintosh lost, but they let Giles Gilbert Scott build what was broadly Mackintosh's design. (the Gilbert Scotts were the Church of England "in house" architect family of tradition). So they built the building that was placed second in the competition. Very like the Reichstag in Berlin, the competition winners, Fosters built the design of the designer who LOST the competition, the MUCH copied Santiago Calatrava! how dispiriting but clearly, 'twas ever thus ..... I wonder whether the unfairness of Mackintosh's treatment led to him retreating to the South of France away from architecture? Mackintosh's watercolours show a degree of fluency and talent that Holl cannot get near but possibly makes up for in arrogance. btw the marks on the stone of the School of Art cannot be by the fires, as the building remains unbuilt news.stv.tv/west-central/glasgow-school-of-art-in-arbitration-proceedings-over-mackintosh-building (that photo looks like a beautiful watercolour doesn't it?) the dirty marks are a combination of rain and soot (nature's own watercolour paints) in the 1960s in Britain in big cities, all the stone buildings were a beautiful matt black, because we used to make things here and we burnt plenty of coal .... all that is now destroyed. Thanks for the videos, I watch them when I pretend to work but am too tired - You look beneath many stones and show me things I haven't seen before!
I am a big fan of your channel thank you for sharing...Are you planning to do a lecture about Shota Bostanashvili? A Georgian architect I discovered just recetly... I believe you will love his story .)
Your appreciation of Japanese architecture is heart warming. I wonder why it was translated as 'house of annihilation' - on the plan drawing it's written in Japanese 無為の家 (mui no ie) which means house of idleness or house of inactivity. about the window made of 2 circles, I'm afraid Scarpa was influenced by Japanese windows. I have a photo of a small window in the shape of 2 circles, covered with delicate rice paper which I took in a temple in Ohara near Kyoto.
44:00 I disagree actually 😄 I think there’s immense joy in Norman Foster’s work because he uses regularity to leverage structural balance which yields lightness and slenderness. Then he uses lattice work to create forms with a lot more freedom than most architects use. I secretly call this the Leg-of-Lamb building. While I love Toyo Ito, this one reminds me of an abattoir or maybe Chaïm Soutine.
28:16 I remember reading a piece about the Mikimoto Ginza tower where he was talking about your conception of the facade as being external because it makes sense as a whole from the outside. Inside, the floor plates cut the facade pattern in random places which strengthens the idea that the facade is part of the outside world instead of the inside. This leads to a subconscious understanding that the space flows freely to the outside. I think this is typified in the Todd’s far stronger almost as if the floor plates are butting against a forest of trees and the walls are a cut plane, like a tree hedge and one is able to touch outside by touching the facade.
