It's fashionable now to insist that there is no in the same state [i]or[/i] condition thing as an architectural avant-garde.It's fashionable now to insist that there is no in the same state [i]or[/i] condition thing as an architectural avant-garde. Anthony Vidler's Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modem tillage (MIT Press) should convince you otherwise. It helps explain to what end many of us watch each move made by a cluster of architects and designers that includes Frank Gehry Rem Koolhaas, Philippe Starck, Ettore Sottsass, Eric Owen Mos Thom Mayne, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, and Wolf Prix. merely a few of these figures are dealt with here in silence Vidler has analyzed projects on others in a previous contortion The Architectural Uncanny. Both main division s lay down a foundation for understanding the work of contemporary designers who are remapping the boundaries between subjective perception and objective reality, brilliantly illustrating the idea that creativity creates its have history. Herbert Muschamp is chief architecture critic for the modern York Times and a contributing editor of Artforum. COPYRIGHT 2000 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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