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From: Lebbeus Woods <medo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Sat, 25 Feb 1995 13:57:25 -0500
my dear Sucher,
You are too willing to jump into things about which you
obviously know (and try, disarmingly, to admit) very little.
Frankly, your cheerful ignorance doesn't inspire me to educate
you about the 'facts' you think you've alluded to re: the
Rogers + Piano Pompidou building. Try doing a little homework
before you spout off.
Woods
Responding to msg by dsucher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Sucher) on
>On 24 Feb 1995 J56EXW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>"You may be interested to know that Richard Rodgers
>(frequently cited a s one of Prince Charles' opponents
>is currently giving the 1995 Reith Lectu res on BBC
>Radio 4. For those of you not resident in the UK, this
>is a presti... It is also interesting that in fact
>Richard Rodgers' main argument so far has been in
>support of promoting "community and neighbourliness".
>Prince Charles and Richard Rodgers have a lot more in
>common than the Prince of Wales would probably like to
>think."
>
>Well I'm not really familiar with how Rodgers works
>meet the sidewalk (my mental sieve when it comes to
>buildings and a simple one) but I think it's important
>to ackowledge that there is a difference between
>'style' and 'morphology'...to get in some nice 50 cent
>words.
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>The most outrageous deconstructivist 'style'
>_might_(showy as it is) still adhere to basic
>urbanistic rules. Sheet metal/concrete block/plastics
>etc. etc. might be used in an manner 'outrageous enough
>to warm the heart of any undergraduate and STILL be
>done in a manner supportive of cities. We have an
>example of that here in Seattle: the Gravity
>Bar...very cool...very trendy...very self-consciously
>'wild' but also very nice because it follows the rules
>of form that Windsor promotes.
>
>Does Rodgers do the same? All I've seen in his Pompidou
>Centre (right architect?) and the plaza side is nice
>but the street side is one of the most hideous and
>silly street-walls I ever seen. The proof, of course,
>is in the numbers: NO people hanging about the
>street-side.
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>David Sucher