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Posted by EDS on December 11, 2007, 6:15 pm
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>>> http://www.nccsc.net/architecture
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>> Good stuff. Having been taught in the 60's and worked under Gropius at
>> TAC, I became untrusting of much modernism. So much bull!
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> I came to similar conclusions through my experience as a priest's son ; )
> and my architectural education in the 80's. It doesn't mauch matter what
> decade you studied after "The Rupture". (Not "The Rapture": Modernism!)
> You got quiet used to wading through rhetoric, and dogma. Aside from the
> obvious experience and learning, it's one of the main differences of an
> architectural (professional, not technical) education.
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> I remember that during the year before I applied to the school, I was
> reading voraciously in the faculty library. One particular watershed
> moment came when I viewed a pair of facing pages in a book by the AIA, I
> think, called "Architects on Architecture" (not exactly sure about that
> either..). About 50 brand name Americans got a full page photo and a full
> page of text to say whatever they wanted....
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> Isozaki showed a picture looking down from a helicopter hovering several
> hundred feet above the WTC roof, and he launched into his schpeel with an
> affirmation of 'humanism'....It was a zen moment for me.
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>> However I do really like Corbu.
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> What in particular? Aside from the obvious urban issues, I've always found
> him to be one the more problematic ones....gravitating more to Mies
> myself. Speaking of the 60's...did you ever draw thin-shell concrete? I
> always loved that stuff.
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The mosque at the University of Baghdad. It held up well to gunfire. I was
surprised to see it on the news as we invaded. Also several folded plate
school roofs and a lot of precast tees, double tees and plank systems. Also
total precast systems for housing. I've been upgrading a hockey rink with
long span single tees recently (not originally mine) and making changes in
those things is a bear!
EDS
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