in this edition, architect and assistant professor gernot riether is questioned about digital design, bernard tschumi’s paperless studio at columbia’s gsaap, global architecture, and his time with powerhouse architecture studio- reiser and umemoto.
voice heard here | http://www.vimeo.com/graymatters
merica may | ballet dancer 2007
painting by jenny saville
section of a lotus seed pod, variation and repitition
“We live in an era of glitzy buildings and trophy houses: big, ugly, show-off monsters that stand-on – I should say stomp-on – land stripped bare by the construction work and replanted with toxic green lawns. If the buildings could talk they would be speechless with embarrassment.”
It’s one thing to embrace sustainability nowadays; but in the early 60’s and throughout the subsequent decades, environmentally conscious architecture was for the fringe few only.
Wells took a stand and pushed on though.
…Oh, and he studied at Georgia Tech.
http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/78749177.html
http://www.malcolmwells.com/index.html