Jeff Shannon wrote:
My wife, who's a commercila property manager, holds that many of the worst architectural excesses were designed as monuments to the architect rather that to fulfil the operational needs of the occupier.Alex Martelli wrote:
Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Then again, millenia past didn't have Frank Gehry (i.e., the Perl of modern architecture).
Uhm -- I count the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao among the _successes_ of
modern architecture...
I'll give you the Bilbao Guggenheim, which (at least in the exterior pictures I can find) is a very attractive building, but here in Seattle we must deal with the giant eyesore that is Gehry's Experience Music Project, which (at least to my eyes) looks like a monstrous pile of architectural rubbish. I can appreciate Gehry's attempts to get away from the tyranny of the straight line, and even with the EMP there's certain details which turned out well, but the overall effect is that of an overturned garbage pail.
Come to think, I can remember at least one shitty piece of software that was designed on the same principles, but thankfully it's now over seven years since I worked in *that* environment.
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