| A must-read for Indian administrators and controllers
| of the profession who also want to dabble in matters
| intense and academic. A razor-sharp line we must respect;
| else we'll all end-up sounding like this...
|
. From the Editors: Line and the Necessity of Debate
By John Loomis (guest editor), Yosh Asato, Mallory Cusenbery, and John
Parman
Why publish an issue on criticism? Because having a healthy and informed
debate about issues and projects that affect the quality and urbanity of
San Francisco is a necessity. And also because AIA SF, the largest
organization of architects in the Bay Area, has sought to play a role in
fostering that critical dialogue since LINE's founding.
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http://www.linemag.org/_line/article_template1.php?a_id=168
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| American, Sincere, Heartfelt
| (and reminds us of all those passages from
| Moby Dick -- "Paris no good, Nantucket is the best!")
|
Italy and France: Criticism in Decline
By Pierluigi Serraino
...
The model of professional as critic is not so unfamiliar in the U.S.,
although architecture as a public critical process might be in its
infancy here. Practitioners in other art forms, such as director Martin
Scorsese and photographer Victor Burgin, have operated as both
professional and critic at various times in their careers. They have
contributed to raising the quality of their production and that of
others through constructive argumentation. Architects can certainly
follow in their footsteps, even without the political motives that
informed the positions of their predecessors. It might yield
surprisingly effective results to the benefit of all parties involved.
cont'd...
http://www.linemag.org/_line/article_template1.php?a_id=170
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