Charlie Rose - The Future of Architecture

Impresioniste Says:

Jun 23, 2008 - They are famous, rich,etc. But their architecture is not good. I know people will laught me but it is thrue.There is no aesthetical relationships in their buildings. They are ugly, not proportioned, not elegant, not perfectioned, not critic architecture. Their architecture is like fast food.The most important thing about the future of architecture is to be critic whit this people, like always, to be critic with the recent past and the actual time, to understand it and belong to it: zeitgeist

hiccupingminor Says:

Jun 24, 2008 - Beautifully put.

marianstefan1 Says:

Jul 8, 2008 - Nice interview charlie is kinda multidisciplinary guy ... Or ?

JackRussellTerrier2 Says:

Jul 14, 2008 - As open space continues to be eaten up by sprawling development the question present it's self: Do his buildings help preserve open space?

georgewu5 Says:

Jul 22, 2008 - J: You have the answer there already! Now we have to build over the highways to save the green space!---dancewu(dot)net

georgewu5 Says:

Jul 22, 2008 - If you wanted to be "Disturbed"or "Challenged",you could go to Sichuan,China,the region I lived during the WW in 1944. You could see thousands and thousands of otherwise normal,functional buildings after the earthquake! They are NOW trying to re-construct the area to be like what it used to look like before the earthquake, definitely NOT GOING TO BE like this Eisenman building--(the future of architecture?!!!)---- I am sure about it!---dancewu(dot)net

georgewu5 Says:

Jul 22, 2008 - scottishlowoflow: I admired Le Corbusier so much even now I am STILL in the middle of his book "Toward An Architecture" to learn more about the two genius I admired very much, the other is Wright whose Falling-Water told me: " That is ARCHITECTURE!" which started me to study architecture! Too bad there are just too many talkers; not enough real talent!---dancewu(dot)net

georgewu5 Says:

Jul 23, 2008 - Genius: Le Corbusier; Wright./ Successor: Holl./Theorist:Kahn;Eisenman;Venturi; Johnson;Graves;Foster;Hadid;/Elegance:Pei;Mier;/Utilitarianism:Mies;Bunshaft;.......dancewu(dot)net

BuckYooper Says:

Aug 3, 2008 - I'm not trying to be dumb and may be dumb, but do u mean that peter eisman is cliche by avoiding the cliche or do you mean something else?

georgewu5 Says:

Aug 4, 2008 - If SWASTIKA is a cliche to the great architects Le corbusier, Wright, Mies, Pei, Rudolph, Yamasaki,and Holl, then Eisenman has been trying all his not to do the SWASTIKA. But I called SWASTIKA a CHINESE SQUARE or a Buddhist symbol, not a Nazi sign, therefore I, and all the great architects have no trouble using it! SWASTIKA was a great design tool, I found that out since I was in college in 1958. Avoiding it because people thought it was related to Nazi missed the boat entirely!--dancewu(dot)net

CosmoHunter24 Says:

Aug 7, 2008 - He looks a bit like John McCain, lol.

learnrv Says:

Aug 13, 2008 - that was what i meant =) this building is not a series of profound questions (or whatever) leveled towards architectural axioms... it is the result of an average man terrified of 'blending in'...

georgewu5 Says:

Aug 14, 2008 - l: You put it more beautifully than any one there in the panel! You are courageous! You should have been in that panel!--- to speak your mind! Others have different motif to go all the way out there! To suuport a "friend" or whatever. If professionals did not speak out, and the public did not know better, therefore, we have such a mediocre world for so long since Corbusier and Wright! Pei said it once that"No controversy; no architecture", but he has been so quiet recently!---dancewu(dot)net

learnrv Says:

Aug 15, 2008 - that is right; we cannot anymore waste the space above roads between skyscrapers...

georgewu5 Says:

Aug 15, 2008 - l: First of all,the architects should do our homework, working closely with the intelligent structural engineers,utilizing the long neglected air space over the highways and between tall buildings,etc. Secondly, the public has to be educated of the danger of the existing fire codes are not sufficient, like a time bomb to go off and demands more fire safety protection! Yes! WTC would have to come down by the thousands of gallons of fuel anyway; but not necessary the 2,700 people!--dancewu(dot)net

georgewu5 Says:

Aug 16, 2008 - e:What is the purpose to twist the ass of the functional supports?! In and out of a surface just cost more time, material,and labor to build!It did not add a bit to the function of that structural support! Then why did it? Wrinkled the architectural surfaces here and there just to pretend as the decoration of the past simply does not make sense to me! Without twisting the ass here and there, the building can still stand up.Adding all those "decoration"just did not make it to function any better!

georgewu5 Says:

Aug 22, 2008 - JackRussellTerrier2: "help preserve open space?" Three drawings in my web-site "dancewu(dot)net" of three different ways to preserve open space. 1/ GREAT WALL VILLAGE: Triangular housing over highways and railroads to Tibet in China. 2/single loaded corridor housing flanked highways in China. 3/World Trade Center II on Hudson river outside the WTC former site with 8 sky-bridges connecting 4 towers in case of another 9/11.I hope each scheme would help to preserve open space.---dancewu(dot)net

richardtraylor Says:

Aug 22, 2008 - Read "Choosing a Skyline:How intelligently are we recognizing urban context as a feature of environmental responsibility?" by Nicholas J. Slabbert -- it's available online on the "Virtual Adjacency" website. (You can also look it up in the British Library's list of online articles by N.J. Slabbert.)

LandosMomma Says:

Aug 31, 2008 - I think that this instills a great insight into architecture.. I love seeing "intelligent" people debate with eacother.. some of these people are just arguing to argue.. and some are only declaring points with questions.. in other words :I just want to hear myself talk, and I have no idea where I am going with this".. I found this as a result of potential persuit of future in architecture.

hosweetim89 Says:

Sep 15, 2008 - It's like hearing a conversation with ascended beings. Everything just falls in place.

hosweetim89 Says:

Sep 15, 2008 - I think its safe to assume that the future would be the introduction of Green Buildings. As people are now more concerned about the planet's health there is more emphasis on plants and energy consumption. I look forward to seeing buildings with some kind of unique form that blends in nature with structural design.

georgewu5 Says:

Sep 15, 2008 - hosweetim89: if you go to my web-site, you will see the future of the housing will be like the Great wall of China, "Great Wall Village" I called it, to be built over the million miles of existing highways with sound and fume insulation....To save green space!--- dancewu(dot)net

rageofsalvation Says:

Sep 19, 2008 - Such a brilliant knowledge.Just what i needed to know.Thank you Charlie Rose!

georgewu5 Says:

Sep 20, 2008 - learnv: Le Cobusier's " Toward An Architecture" "...Auguste Perret's Tower-city (1922)sketched but not planned bridges link the towers to one another.(P.126)--- "for what purpose?"--- The reporter of L'Intransigeant argued. But there was no 9/11 then. Now, it is about time to look into what they thought about and did not have been examined yet.Instead of wasting the resources to build rotating towers,etc., why don't we do something wonderful to the world, save the green space....dancewu(dot)net

tomfoxbenton1986 Says:

Nov 18, 2008 - Peter Eisenman is full of nonsense. He is a terrible influence on architecture. You wouldn't ignore history 'the reservoir of human experience' when designing art for human experience, unless you are an arrogant prat. His egotistical chat about creating purely spacial experience, has created an architecture that is actually silent. Whatever space and time mean, place and occasion mean more. please take not Eisenman