"...What once seemed special now looks rote..."

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"...What once seemed special now looks rote..."

aesthete8@hotmail.com

02-08-2008

Re: "...What once seemed special now looks rote......

Michael Bulatov...

02-08-2008

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Posted by aesthete8@hotmail.com on February 8, 2008, 5:22 am

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=muse&sid=aCr_fzw_ySpw

Posted by Michael Bulatovich on February 8, 2008, 12:28 pm

> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=muse&sid=aCr_fzw_ySpw

heheh

"Too few museums undertake a deep inquiry that combines an insightful
designer with museum leadership that knows what it wants. Whether a design
is subdued or extroverted will emerge from an open-minded consideration of
growth that teases out what's unique about the collections, setting and
city. "

Yeah, either that or a completely arbitrary, preconceived notion, based on
what attracted tourists to another city somewhere, and reused in toto from
another project built on an entirely different site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ontario_Museum#Third_Expansion

Posted by ++ on February 8, 2008, 12:57 pm

Michael Bulatovich wrote:

>>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=muse&sid=aCr_fzw_ySpw

>heheh

>"Too few museums undertake a deep inquiry that combines an insightful

>designer with museum leadership that knows what it wants. Whether a design

>is subdued or extroverted will emerge from an open-minded consideration of

>growth that teases out what's unique about the collections, setting and

>city. "

>Yeah, either that or a completely arbitrary, preconceived notion, based on

>what attracted tourists to another city somewhere, and reused in toto from

>another project built on an entirely different site.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ontario_Museum#Third_Expansion

often ending up with difficulty enjoying art on a pedestrian level in a
vast brutalist waste of space.

Posted by Michael Bulatovich on February 8, 2008, 1:25 pm

> Michael Bulatovich wrote:

>>>http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=muse&sid=aCr_fzw_ySpw

>>>

>>heheh

>>"Too few museums undertake a deep inquiry that combines an insightful

>>designer with museum leadership that knows what it wants. Whether a design

>>is subdued or extroverted will emerge from an open-minded consideration of

>>growth that teases out what's unique about the collections, setting and

>>city. "

>>Yeah, either that or a completely arbitrary, preconceived notion, based on

>>what attracted tourists to another city somewhere, and reused in toto from

>>another project built on an entirely different site.

>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ontario_Museum#Third_Expansion

> often ending up with difficulty enjoying art on a pedestrian level in a

> vast brutalist waste of space.

At a all-night arts festival it was interesting to watch crowd dynamics in
front of 'the crystal' if you can still call it that....the sidewalk was
packed and the crowd almost at a standstill. The cops even put barricades in
the curb lane of the street to devote it to pedestrians, but the
people/square meter dropped off as you approach the front door of that
thing. If you wanted to walk freely you had to 'risk' walking under it. I
did it, and felt a distinct, visceral sense of unease, which I had to
consciously overcome. Right up against it, the sidewalks were *clear*. While
not "Capital B" "Brutalist", it's making the some of the same mistakes as
many buildings from that period did. History is cyclical.

Posted by ++ on February 8, 2008, 1:32 pm

Michael Bulatovich wrote:

>>often ending up with difficulty enjoying art on a pedestrian level in a

>>vast brutalist waste of space.

>At a all-night arts festival it was interesting to watch crowd dynamics in

>front of 'the crystal' if you can still call it that....the sidewalk was

>packed and the crowd almost at a standstill. The cops even put barricades in

>the curb lane of the street to devote it to pedestrians, but the

>people/square meter dropped off as you approach the front door of that

>thing. If you wanted to walk freely you had to 'risk' walking under it. I

>did it, and felt a distinct, visceral sense of unease, which I had to

>consciously overcome. Right up against it, the sidewalks were *clear*. While

>not "Capital B" "Brutalist", it's making the some of the same mistakes as

>many buildings from that period did. History is cyclical.

I don't think that elements have to be metal to be brutal. Spatial
elements, as you desribed, that are austere and distancing are brutal, too.

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