Anyways - what is the "sheep's clothing" that corporate-Western-evil-nasty-bad-stuff hides in, in your view? Is it the guise of bringing aid to countries who are developing? Contracts of goods meant to help, that leave and imprint in architecture of the mass produced buildings made for mass production? If so, how is your study meant to help? Is it? One notion, if you have access - these tear-downs and reconstructions going on in China, if you can get plans to one of them, could you propose an alternative of a more traditional, Chinese-focused design?
Your graphic is somewhat flat. It reads more like a polemical/rhetorical collection of images in the same frame rather a spatial or layered montage. Do we glean anything new when we look at it a second time? Your 1+3+9 statement has a similar flatness. While you have identified a great problem (perhaps one of the great problems of our era), I don't see a proposed method of solution. Also, I suggest that you consider a smaller purview (i.e. identify a single building/project as your contribution to stemming the tide of global sameness). Finally, I would caution agaainst overly-romanticizing a local culture. No culture in history ever stays locked. All culture (and subsequently history, as a reflectant of culture) evolves as it reacts to new input. What I find truly interesting (and seriously challenging) in your proposal is the possibility of creating a Chinesese architecture that speaks not only to its place, but also its time.
Yifei -
ReplyDeleteLove the graphic. That wolf is evil.
Anyways - what is the "sheep's clothing" that corporate-Western-evil-nasty-bad-stuff hides in, in your view? Is it the guise of bringing aid to countries who are developing? Contracts of goods meant to help, that leave and imprint in architecture of the mass produced buildings made for mass production? If so, how is your study meant to help? Is it? One notion, if you have access - these tear-downs and reconstructions going on in China, if you can get plans to one of them, could you propose an alternative of a more traditional, Chinese-focused design?
Yifei,
ReplyDeleteYour graphic is somewhat flat. It reads more like a polemical/rhetorical collection of images in the same frame rather a spatial or layered montage. Do we glean anything new when we look at it a second time?
Your 1+3+9 statement has a similar flatness. While you have identified a great problem (perhaps one of the great problems of our era), I don't see a proposed method of solution. Also, I suggest that you consider a smaller purview (i.e. identify a single building/project as your contribution to stemming the tide of global sameness).
Finally, I would caution agaainst overly-romanticizing a local culture. No culture in history ever stays locked. All culture (and subsequently history, as a reflectant of culture) evolves as it reacts to new input. What I find truly interesting (and seriously challenging) in your proposal is the possibility of creating a Chinesese architecture that speaks not only to its place, but also its time.