A conversation with Architects Liz Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro

with Ricardo Scofidio, Elizabeth Diller and Charles Renfro
in Art & Design
on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 * * * * *

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A conversation with Architects Liz Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro

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    1. ilgarauchut  07/02/2009 03:54 AM Report

      Everything I wanted to know about them and more.

    2. nmfjordan  04/29/2009 10:30 AM Report

      Oops - My Huxtable comments showed up here. As for D/S/R...They proved that sometimes putting ones head in the clouds can result in some spiffy new ideas - such as resulted in their subsequent work in Boston! I say: those planes in Diller's hair should lead to something in the future! Hang in there Renfro: Maybe you will be able to add to the triologue next time...

    3. nmfjordan  04/29/2009 10:23 AM Report

      I found Ada Huxtable intellectually accessible, refreshing, and certainly enlightening Historians and critics stand outside and observe only - a nice position to be in. But, nevertheless, she was not gritty and pokey and chiding but rather cast some real light and love on architectural theory and practice. Hurray to her and to Charlie for his inimitable way of bringing out the best in his guests.

    4. winter  04/06/2009 12:58 AM Report

      I must have missed the history lesson that had the Sequoias, and the herds and flocks of Africa rendered

      on Autocad.

    5. doodahdaze  04/03/2009 08:02 AM Report

      winter, man is born out of nature, so man IS nature and everything born out of man IS nature. So your comment is unintelligible and redundant to reality.

    6. doodahdaze  04/03/2009 07:54 AM Report

      indyrmitch, commenting on the comments;... how "original". <wink>

    7. winter  04/03/2009 12:45 AM Report

      Seen the documentary Planet Earth? Architecture can't compare. Man's feeble attempt at Creation falls laughably short next to Natures. Listening to Huxtable tonight, I see where the self import of long winded rhetorical alchemy for transforming sows ears is done. Painfull

    8. indyrmitch  04/02/2009 09:15 PM Report

      I like all of the comments, but liked the "show" more ! Sometimes, it's hard to recreate the splendor of new discovery and perspective that others bring us. Some, just get jaded over time to what's new and invigorating !

    9. doodahdaze  04/02/2009 08:26 AM Report

      To make "form follows function following utility" cheap yet attractive and environmentally-friendly; one has to condition the mind that those aren't weeds on your roof; it's a rain garden. Come on people get with it!... Frank Loyd Wright was a true innovator and revolutionizer, even though everything he built, leaked, was over-budget, and ignored building codes when they interfered with plans. But you have to be REAL old to get away with that.

    10. rootandstar  04/01/2009 10:47 PM Report

      just fyi, the blur building was done several years ago in 2002...

      also, i disagree about your comments re: function/art. you need thinkers like these to move the discipline forward and to create structures that encourage the average person/passerby to step back and appreciate their environments. i found them very insightful and thought-provoking.

    11. winter  04/01/2009 06:47 PM Report

      I hope taxpayers didn't pay for that cloud thing. Whatever or whoever funded it certainly could have done more good, esp. in this economy, donating to some ...worthy cause of their choosing. I can enjoy art but we don't have money for that sort of self indulgence -- not now. Right now there are people who are going to have to live on bread alone. If you're an architecture grad with your sights set on public funding -- hands off.

    12. carlottalein  04/01/2009 04:29 PM Report

      engage the building? that says it all...they forgot to bring a translator.

      the Germans have a word for it....it's Geck.

      Who sees function in this??

    13. REMant  04/01/2009 11:04 AM Report

      I think form follows function which follows utility, and that's about all of it. Architecture is not art. I wish I'd known 50 yrs ago it was possible to be an architect without building anything. Might have changed my whole life. The Lincoln Center plinth business was fairly typical for its time. The South Bank Centre in London was the same. The kind of thing Jane Jacobs complained about. The new lobby for Alice Tully is much the same as IU's Musical Arts Center, which opened in 1972. I do wish tho someone would design really feasible, environmentally friendly, economic, do-it-yourself, pre-fabricated-type houses. That would really be significant.

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