Tag Archives: i.m. pei

in the service of the mythic

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Dave

Louis Kahn was demonstrably one of the few well known artists on the architectural scene in America who arrived at the moment when America was hungry for a new departure away from the paths laid down and the stature conscious … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged albert speer, Frank Lloyd Wright, i.m. pei, Inga Saffron, Louis Kahn architecture, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mies van der Rohe, moshe safdie, Robert A.M. Steiner | Leave a comment

pursuit of the bold silhouette

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Dave

The pursuit of the bold silhouette has led many architects astray. So many mature architects have been tempted, as Frank Lloyd Wright was tempted in his later days, to invent dazzlingly photogenic shells, often achieving sculptural effects by neglecting the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Denise Scott Brown, Frank Lloyd Wright, i.m. pei, Jonas Salk, Louis Kahn architecture, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Mary Ann Sullivan, Robert Adams architect, robert venturi, Salk Institute for Biology | Leave a comment

roadside architecture: sweeping out the old twerps

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) i say – “fuck frank gehry and philip johnson and rem khoolhaus, etc. etc. ad naseum.” i say those guys are total ass clowns wasting everybody’s time and dime on their masturbatory fantasies of power. … Continue reading →