Posted on 05/10/2006 by fish • Permalink • Comment (0 so far)
hey, have you guys seen this piece?
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/architectural-criticism.html
“As it is, one critic writes for approval by another critic, who writes for another critic, who writes for some editor somewhere, or for the head of a department, and no one wants to step out of line. You want to talk about a videogame, or a Tim Burton film, or castles as described in the books of J.K. Rowling – but nope: it’s all Zaha, all the time.”
… makes me feel a bit chummpish for going on about a starchitect, even a very nice one, but I do share the author’s general opinion about the state of things in architectural criticism.
-fish