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Have a look at heatherwick's buildings. Tell me what you think.

Nobody does architectural criticism anymore. In the industry it is all breathless, feint praise. Like the Hollywood cliché.

I for one, enjoy hearing someone's critical thinking about the architecture underneath the skin of a building. As in, the systems and processes that structure space and movement and interaction and emotion and society. What is the fucking point of architecture if all it does is pretty.




> I for one, enjoy hearing someone's critical thinking about the architecture underneath the skin of a building. As in, the systems and processes that structure space and movement and interaction and emotion and society

The article contains none of that. As another commenter perfectly described: this piece doesn't seem to make any coherent argument. Nowhere does she explain why she dislikes it aesthetically.


Aesthetics is not architecture! Not sure how much clearer i can be.

Talking about architectural aesthetics is like discussing the success of Amazon or Google by way of the colour palette of their website.

The articles argument is about the underlying processes which spawned and support the building. It is one valid criticism.




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