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Posted by Michael Bulatovich on April 16, 2007, 8:14 am
> It's been too long for me to remember specifics, except I do remember:
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> 1) They tried damn hard to make me like it and failed miserably.
Ditto
> 2) Anything by "Corbu" was perfect and to be emulated.
Ditto
> 3) Kahn was great, but not as great.
Ditto
> 4) Mies, was far superior to Wright.
Ditto
> 5) Wright was whispered as they whisper "Voldemort" in the Potter books.
Haha exactly. Profs never said his name out loud unless to ridicule him.
> 6) I did have one professor who tried to get the school to issue
> Wrightian capes to the students and professors. He was serious--and I
> supported the idea because I thought it would have been a laugh (and I
> wanted a cape).
We had to look like we slept in our clothes at our desks.
> 7) What annoyed me most, and still does to this day (as it continues in
> the trade rags) is that simply stating an idea makes it valid. If a
> building "does X" because I said a building "did X", then it was so.
Ah, the BS factor. We actually have a bit of a contraversy brewing here in
TO. A steadily more pretentious newspaper critic, and the usual suspects
attacking on of their own who has grown into a local titan. The rhetoric is
all there, just like the old days. http://tinyurl.com/2qzljm
> 8) My own experience taught me that the best buildings are most often
> those that are not well known and by "lessor" architects. I also learned
> that unless you've been in the building and talked to those that use it,
> you have NO idea what it is as "Architecture." Sculpture, maybe. But to
> architecture, if by architecture you mean "structures that people
> inhabit".
>
> 9) I was able to get a professor to be so incensed by what I wrote that
> he crumpled it up and stuck it to his tack board with a knife. It is
> probably my proudest moment from architecture school.
Sounds like our experiences were very similar. I wrote a paper where I
compared the 'good guys' with some 'bad guys' under the an existential lens
that showed them both as ultimately doing the opposite of what they said
they were doing. It was pretty good for first or second year. I got an A for
it but it was never returned. I've often wondered what happened to it.....
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MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.ca
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