tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post747375762108670746..comments2024-03-27T06:20:06.991+00:00Comments on fantastic journal: Still Got Love For the StreetsCharles Hollandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08749776401395551607noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-48329779250128753062010-02-24T11:13:58.732+00:002010-02-24T11:13:58.732+00:00Hello,
I'd appreciate if you can give me some...Hello,<br /><br />I'd appreciate if you can give me some feedback on our site: www.regencyshop.com<br /><br />I realize that you are home decor-modern design connoisseur :) I'd like to hear your opinion/feedback on our products. Also, it'd be swell if you can place our Le Corbusier link on your blog.<br /><br />Thank you,<br /><br />NancyUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06828477319246398165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-15814546885724894282008-04-07T15:12:00.000+00:002008-04-07T15:12:00.000+00:00curious that someone like le corbusier did exactly...<EM>curious that someone like le corbusier did exactly the opposite in his houses from his urbanism</EM><BR/><BR/>Except for the Unites, maybe? There's a whole lot of far from straightforwardly functional things going on there, the sculpted roof gardens and what have you. A balance between his earlier obsessive-compulsive disorder and the houses' playfulness seems to be at work (although I know very little abt how this works in say, Chandigarh)owen hatherleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943115307136493045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-336850012501181382008-04-07T14:15:00.000+00:002008-04-07T14:15:00.000+00:00well i guess someone like Aldo Rossi would maintai...well i guess someone like Aldo Rossi would maintain that architecture should keep an enigmatic silence on issues of space/use/occupation and allow whatever happens to happen. in his case that mostly means standing moodily in empty piazzas. certainly the idea of space changing through its occupation is an under-developed one in architecture, mainly cos architects like to control and define space, not understand its role in changing over time.<BR/><BR/>this is preferable to some (oxymoronic) presciption for spontaneous acts of behaviour i feel though. both Koolhaas and Tschumi talked about these issues and used ideas of spatial redundancy to do so. its curious that someone like le corbusier did exactly the opposite in his houses from his urbanism. the houses are surreal and playful and anti-functional elements are included like the pointless duplication of stairs and ramp in the villa savoire. urbanisatically though its always been different where the will to represent a stable social order prevails. <BR/><BR/>i have the least faith in the digital axis though, mainly because it assumes a total control of spatial order by the architect which is never (quite rightly) the case meaning that something like FOA architects flowing, deterritorialised space ends up with barriers and doors and toilet signs and anti theft devices and, indeed rooms, added at the end. so that work seems happiest in the realm of the digital where formal freedom is easier to assume.<BR/><BR/>robert, that is interesting about the demolition. did he fence off the collonades of portland place as a consequence?Charles Hollandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08749776401395551607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-2082784487290420782008-04-07T10:57:00.000+00:002008-04-07T10:57:00.000+00:00I think architects have been struggling over this ...I think architects have been struggling over this question for at least twenty years now. It is obvious that a certain irregularity and inefficiency can be what makes a space a Space, but I don't think anybody has really come up with a satisfactory way it can be generated from within the architect's position (a subservient actor <I>within</I> the powerful network). You hear a lot of talk about planning for the unplanned, and there's currently a hope that digital/parametric design can somehow resist the <I>generic city,</I> but I'm not optimistic.<BR/>It's disheartening to know that if you do your job too well, the stakeholders can lose out...Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11658628800390775081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-77955433454185940852008-04-07T02:05:00.000+00:002008-04-07T02:05:00.000+00:00I wonder, being a dilettante, how easy it is to 'm...I wonder, being a dilettante, how easy it is to 'make' these spaces without it seeming horribly token and contrived. I like the way that little Georgian or Medieval enclaves were included in the (alas long since ruined) Pepys estate and the Barbican - but the word <EM>reservation</EM> can spring to mind. But yeah, I was getting at in the streets-in-sky post that the way that those two places and those like them had so many places to loiter and get lost in is both what makes them <EM>places</EM>, unlike yer standard few point blocks and a patch of land, or indeed the empty civic amenity with the accompanying achingly 'European' idea of public space. <BR/><BR/>This came up once in conversation with <A HREF="http://savagemessiahzine.com/" REL="nofollow">Savage Messiah</A> - who has loads of interesting stuff to say on this - that the walkways and such are what makes these places everything the rookeries were in the popular imagination previously. Of course it's also exactly the thing that folk get so upset about about these structures, all those places where one can escape the police, avoid detection...and knife each other over disrespect or whatever, I suppose.owen hatherleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06943115307136493045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3795208825742635713.post-9976510706744652402008-04-04T21:20:00.000+00:002008-04-04T21:20:00.000+00:00The Regent Street Quadrant was constructed by Nash...The Regent Street Quadrant was constructed by Nash with a Colonnade. <BR/><BR/>It was demolished in 1848 as a notorious haunt of prostitutes.<BR/><BR/>"The quadrant colonnades were ... from every point of view except architectual magnificence, a disaster. They were gloomy and dirty, the shops only attracted inferior trades; and as arcades in great cities always do, they became promenades for prostitutes." (Summerson, 1980 p135)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com