+
From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
+
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:18:49 +0530
Architexturez-IN wrote:
IT’S hard to pinpoint when the “starchitect” became an object of
ridicule. The term is a favorite of churlish commentators, who use it to
mock architects whose increasingly flamboyant buildings, in their minds,
are more about fashion and money than function.
....
In Defense of 'Starchitects' and Stern
Two interesting pieces in Sunday’s New York Times. One describes how
Robert A.M. Stern has opened Yale University’s School of Architecture to
all kinds of design aesthetics, creating “a vibrant nexus of ideas and
debate,” even as his own firm’s work remains relentlessly traditional.
The other looks at criticism of so-called “starchitects” and finds it
“churlish.” And also — in the case of John Silber, the former Boston
University president whose new book is called Architecture of the
Absurd: How “Genius” Disfigured a Practical Art — “glib.”
cont'd....
http://chronicle.com/blogs/architecture/1218/in-defense-of-starchitects-and-stern