More from Sean Godsell Architects:
"The sentiment of the kitchen table is western - the altar of the family. In this sense the house speculates on the potential emergence of an Australian vernacular born not simply from our European past but equally from our acceptance of our regional reality as part of Asia."
–it's a fucking kitchen table!
"What's for dinner?"
"I'm not sure yet, I'm too busy speculating on the potential emergence of an Australian vernacular born not simply from our European past but equally from our acceptance of our regional reality as part of Asia."
"So we're having sweet and sour chicken again?..."
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Architectural Bullshit, #2
"The 100 Acres Art + Nature Park and the Visitor’s Pavilion is
the result of a studied relationship between building, land and
site-art with an infinite point of view. This place is born of wildly
turbulent, nature/culture phenomena constantly changing the
land’s structure. Tinkering with it as cultivated urban wilds
proves a sound means of joining Nature and City as a recovered,
unpredictably changing but cultivated landscape. Our ongoing
ambition is to craft a logic of ideas and physical works that
may open the repressed raw power of environment, art, and
architecture through a re-thinking and re-making of where we
already are. Here, the questions posed are born from within
the found condition — an immanent response, imbued with
convincing meaning and significance for the Museum of Art,
its patrons and the citizens of Indianapolis."
(Marlon Blackwell Architects)
OK, let's try to break it down:
"..is the result of a studied relationship between building, land and site-art with an infinite point of view."
–an infinite point of view? What?
"Our ongoing ambition is to craft a logic of ideas and physical works that may open the repressed raw power of environment, art, and architecture through a re-thinking and re-making of where we already are."
–I know where you are. Somewhere between la-la land and the wrong end of bad acid trip. Fuck off. Hippie.
"Here, the questions posed are born from within the found condition — an immanent response, imbued with convincing meaning and significance.."
–I find nothing convincing about that meaning, in fact I have trouble understanding what the fuck the meaning is in the first place, imbued or otherwise.
the result of a studied relationship between building, land and
site-art with an infinite point of view. This place is born of wildly
turbulent, nature/culture phenomena constantly changing the
land’s structure. Tinkering with it as cultivated urban wilds
proves a sound means of joining Nature and City as a recovered,
unpredictably changing but cultivated landscape. Our ongoing
ambition is to craft a logic of ideas and physical works that
may open the repressed raw power of environment, art, and
architecture through a re-thinking and re-making of where we
already are. Here, the questions posed are born from within
the found condition — an immanent response, imbued with
convincing meaning and significance for the Museum of Art,
its patrons and the citizens of Indianapolis."
(Marlon Blackwell Architects)
OK, let's try to break it down:
"..is the result of a studied relationship between building, land and site-art with an infinite point of view."
–an infinite point of view? What?
"Our ongoing ambition is to craft a logic of ideas and physical works that may open the repressed raw power of environment, art, and architecture through a re-thinking and re-making of where we already are."
–I know where you are. Somewhere between la-la land and the wrong end of bad acid trip. Fuck off. Hippie.
"Here, the questions posed are born from within the found condition — an immanent response, imbued with convincing meaning and significance.."
–I find nothing convincing about that meaning, in fact I have trouble understanding what the fuck the meaning is in the first place, imbued or otherwise.
Architectural bullshit, #1
Architects are generally pathetic, attention-seeking and self-centred failed artists. They talk so much shit, such endless streams of bullshit that one has to wonder whether all that expensive education shouldn't include a course or two in grasping reality.
Here's an example from Sean Godsell Architects:
"There is invested in this building a strong sense of childhood that begins with the anticipation of travel and promotes the sense of reward that comes at the conclusion of a journey. The verandah exists in this house in an abstracted form."
(Translation: "I built a house. In the greater scheme of things, it is nothing special. It is just a house, for fucks sake. But hopefully my erratic verbal diarrhoea will confuse the world into believing otherwise. After all, I am an architect, and as such, highly educated AND creative. And worthy of special praise.")
How can a strong sense of childhood that begins with the anticipation of travel and promotes the sense of reward that comes at the conclusion of a journey be invested in a building? What does that even mean in this context? Also, I much prefer my verandah in the concrete form. A verandah is a fucking verandah, for god's sake.
Here's an example from Sean Godsell Architects:
"There is invested in this building a strong sense of childhood that begins with the anticipation of travel and promotes the sense of reward that comes at the conclusion of a journey. The verandah exists in this house in an abstracted form."
(Translation: "I built a house. In the greater scheme of things, it is nothing special. It is just a house, for fucks sake. But hopefully my erratic verbal diarrhoea will confuse the world into believing otherwise. After all, I am an architect, and as such, highly educated AND creative. And worthy of special praise.")
How can a strong sense of childhood that begins with the anticipation of travel and promotes the sense of reward that comes at the conclusion of a journey be invested in a building? What does that even mean in this context? Also, I much prefer my verandah in the concrete form. A verandah is a fucking verandah, for god's sake.
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