I posted a rebuttal to my recent piece on ffffound, over at Scintillating Bullshit, my personal blog. I thought I’d point it out here, as it has engendered a rather interesting discussion of the popular sites’ dark side.

Also, happy belated new year to all!

-fish

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