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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:42:29 +0530
London - David Chipperfield has become a pre-modern architect.
The Museum of Modern Literature at the German Literature Archive in the
small town of Marbach am Neckar is a neo-Palladian temple, masquerading
as an essay in austere minimalism. It revels in a thinly-concealed
eclecticism of which James Stirling (architect of the Neue Staatsgalerie
in nearby Stuttgart) would have been proud.
In fact, the pre-modern designation is borrowed from arch-postmodernist
Robert Stern, who used it to describe himself while he was a professor
at Columbia University in the 1980s. Although the minimalist left side
of Chipperfield's architect brain might be horrified at the comparison,
there is much to recommend it. Stern's buildings are a freak-show of
pastiche postmodernism and quasi-contemporary styles. But Stern was a
prolific teacher, a critic of the architecture made in his own country
and a committedly high-brow figure. This description could easily fit
David Chipperfield.
cont'd....
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