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jurovi
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 Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject: Who is the best architect in the world? |
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I would like to hear the opinions of as many people as possible. What is in your opinion the best architect in the world? Antonio Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Ralph Erskine, Alvaro Siza, Herzog & de Meuron...I would like to know who is the best architect in the world, and his masterpiece, in your opinion. Here goes mine. In my opinion the best architech in the world is Antonio Gaudi and his masterpiece is the cathedral
La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. |
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elisa kouloumenta
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it would be very naive to answer to that question. What means best architect? who can judge that? Under what conditions? which period, and how can we ever compare pieces of art through different periods, places and conditions? what does Gaudi has to do with Herzog &Meuron?
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jarviss_m
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maybe rephrase your question "who is your favorite architect and why"
i don't have one yet
hehe
i'm a fan of architecture and place....and i guess i can be a fan of architects who respect the project's site..not only in a contextual sense, but also an environmental sense.
i don't buy onto the hero-worship of a famous architect who builds the same building all over the world...and gets praise for it.
confusing to me
good luck tho
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P.C.
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| I agrea very much --- there are so much difference what "architects do and if each architect in the world is supposed to be throwing sketches there would be a mountain of unbuild projects . Now it is not to blame you architects or wannabe architects ,,,, and I cirtainly apriciate Gaudi but, I think it is important to remember how old our Hero's are. How many years it have been sinse they put up their masterpieces and put that in perspective with today's challanges , today's tools, and ask ourself if there realy would be a place for today's Gaudi today's FLW. today's Le.Corb. -------- reson I say so is that I particular do not find one single of today's Stararchitects worthy the glory and yet , even how edgy and cold unhuman, they atleast claim to be using today's tools -- even when you look close you alway's notis that it is often bragging or with yestoday's perception and today's technology as only support for an outdated perception --- where I want to go is, that atleast the old masters knew their crafts, where today the tools are there mainly to distance you from the structurs , so why is it these old masters are still apriciated when today we enhance tools beyond most peoples emagination , how long will it be before we Kill The Brick and realise the new tools as just as honest as the old brick. |
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Landy
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| everyone that joins the forum. Ha! |
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mx2
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| Posted: Thu Feb 15, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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"best" is far too subjective...and favorite is twice as subjective, as it could be for such a wide variety of reasons that ultimately it's just chit chat...
I like some architects for some reasons and other for other reasons...I can't say I have a single favorite, honestly...but I admire all prcaticing architects who welcome a good challenge and execute a beautiful product in the midts of fighting uphill battles...the bigger the challenges (with good architectural responses), the more I admire them...
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*Science of Architecture: The calculated use of technical skill and knowledge in the construction of a functional building. |
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Tin Bobbin
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As somebody with an appreciation of shiny steel things I'd have to doff my cap to Frank Gehry.
Aesthetically, he might not be everyone's cup of Dahjeeling, but I recently wasted my time wittering about some great steel buildings of which Frank Gehry's featured rather prominently.
Not all us blue collar types are utter heathens, y'know.
Then again.....  |
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P.C.
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| T.B. Yes -- but for me it is about having detail control over the lattrice holding the sheets. If the hollow spaxes are just there and unused more or less, I think I can critic, that there is not tools to exactly form and shape the very framework into hollow soaces, floors at various levels build-in furniture a wonder ---- I say this is the important thing about it, if the spetacular display even offer the rooms you could emagine, or if the whole fiddle is to complicated to dull thought , to Deliver something not a lookalike. |
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partizanka99
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My favourite architect – Konstantin Melnikov (1908 – 1974). One of his masterpieces is own private house.
Melnikov was not the typical Russian avant-garde architect; he was constructing many buildings, not just drawing them. Melnikov even built his own private house with studio in Moscow (1927-1929). This highly original design consists of two interlocking upright cylinders with numerous elongated hexagonal windows and a large front wall of glass. The house was built with traditional Russian materials (stuccoed brick for exterior walls and wood for floors) used structurally in inventive ways.
“Is it interesting to do that has already discovered?”
“Is it interesting to do that has already done?”
“I consider some dogma is my enemy in my creative activity”
“To convert impossible into possible is impudence of architect” |
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Nold Egenter
Joined: 31 Dec 2005
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Location: Zurich Switzerland
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| Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject: THE BEST ARCHITECT IN THE WORLD |
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Ciao. Good to see you! Nearly spring.
--Yes. nice weather. Have you seen the jurovi post in the architectue forum?
No, why?
--I have difficulties to imagine this person. Like someone who thinks he got his baby by the stork.
What has this to do with architecure?
--Here, I have noted his post.
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"I would like to hear the opinions of as many people as possible. What is in your opinion the best architect in the world? Antonio Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Santiago Calatrava, Frank Gehry, Ralph Erskine, Alvaro Siza, Herzog & de Meuron...I would like to know who is the best architect in the world, and his masterpiece, in your opinion. Here goes mine. In my opinion the best architech in the world is Antonio Gaudi and his masterpiece is the cathedral La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona."
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But, this is a very interesting question!
--You think because it shows a lot?
Yes. It shows some sort of fixation in the field.
--Maybe you are right. For me it sounds like fashion. You know the style. It can change every year, but Armani is Armani, or Coco Chanel is Coco Chanel.
But here too, choice is involved. Imagine someone who is sick, sickness K.
Even if he were rich like hell, would he ask: who ist the best doctor in the world?
--Certainly not. He would say, who is the best specialist for sickness K? In my city, or, if he is rich, he might fly somewhere else, consequently; who is the best specialist for sickness K in the world?
Exactly. And, again, maybe this is not enough. Because, maybe, there are different methods of treatment x or y or z.
--So the question would be: who is the is the best specialist for x (or y, or z) in a limited region or in the world?
In the field of medecine the way the question is answered might decide about my life or death, so we think quite a lot before we give an answer and take consequences.
--You are right. In architecture most people think: just a matter of design, no problem. But, maybe we take architecture too easily on our shoulders. Its consequences are much more heavy than we might think.
But let us continue the discussion. Maybe someone says: In my view Gaudi had two basic elements
1) his technique to let his construction follow parabolic forces and
2) catalonian tradition for many of his surfaces
--I understand what you mean: I can imagine someone who says: Gaudi's parabolic forces are bricolage. He became famous because many architects had the problem to integrate statics into their buildings. And he had done it in a very original way with his inversed string models.
I can also imagine someone who says: the way he used exterior form might be nice for ceramics, but not for architecture, it looks like chocolate cream style.
--Conclusion: Gaudi had no deeper understanding for the essential forces of architecture.
But I like his catalonian chocolate cream style!
--Bravo. At least we have a discussion.
I agree, but sincerely, I don't like his towers. They always remind me of verticalised Maillart bridges.
--Brrr, you must be mad. Maillart bridges?
Exactly. They reflect the same thought process to find the form.
--But let us switch to another example close by. Similarly we can discuss Mies van der Rohes Barcelona pavillon: was he "the the best architect in the world?"
I think we can also say, there are two main characteristics. Mies had studied details of traditional wood construction and transformed their constructive logics into steel. Second, he was an ardent interpreter of new ways of interpreting space as some sort of 'fluid space'.
--I agree. Doubtless, his way of using steel was very important. It was fairly revolutionary and to a great extent characterised urban skylines with curtain wall slabs. However, whether these anonymous geometrical chocolate plates are the right element to define our vital environment, our need for orientation in the sense of 'toposemantic' signs is another question.
And the same can be said of his new definition of fluid space. It was of great influence on architecture, but at the same time diffused an anonymous type of space like in airports and the like. If I would have to live in such a space, I would have bad dreams of windchannels...brrrr!
--We would not say that the Barcelona pavillon of Mies van der Rohe ist the best architecture of the world?
Definitely not! It became some sort of a symbol, which in the meantime has become highly problematic.
--Rather deceiving, our discussion!
Now I have it! Frank Gehry is the best architect in the world. His hotel in the Rioja region is the best architecture of the world.
--You must be sick! I have seen all the pictures here on the architecture forum. Inside it is a very conventional even conservative suite hotel international style. In the landscape it reminds me of Kim Jong-Il's golden statue in PyongYang. No respect of the environment, no sense for the culture of the region, just planting his own elaborate 'creation' into the countryside: here am I. The particular Gehry-"decorations" of the building look like an airplane crash of early times. Remember Loos: ornament is crime! Gehry also shows his limits. What could be tolerated as accentuating an urban point in Bilbao, now becomes somehow a notorious repetition in these peaceful vinelands.
I understand, you want to get me on the palms.
--Not at all, I just express what I think. Absolutely legitimate.
It was you who started with this best egg of the world problem!
--That is the problem, it is not an egg. It is done something by some human being which implies characteristics which can be discussed, liked, adored, judged, evalued, disliked, abhorred. And to define this relation we need not only a holy picture and a prayerbook to utter some pious sighs. At the contrary. We have to look at it from all possible sides and to think, to weigh arguments, to reason etc. etc. etc.
Ok, Ok, I agree. Come on, dont get mad. You are right. Architecture is not an egg just put into the landscape by some stylish peacock. It produces a dialogue, .....
--A very complex dialogue, with humans, with their culture, with their history, with forms of this history, with all what these humans have in their heads as archetypes etc. etc.
Otherwise...I know, ......your theory of architecture as a cultural 'uprooting machine'.. Come on, lets have a drink. There is a nice coffee shop around the corner.
--Wow, maybe I am getting crazy! See that stork up there? Has a band in its beak. Flies a baby to some place. Must become an architect. I am sure! It is an architect. Will build the most marvellous place of the world. Not just simply Las Vegas or New York but very long name: Antonio-Gaudi-Frank-Lloyd-Wright-Santiago-Calatrava-Frank-Gehry-Ralph- Erskine-Alvaro-Siza-Herzog-&-de-Meuron...CITY. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE OF THE WORLD.
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solidred
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I'm going to step sideways from the question as well.
The finest work of architecture I know personally is the collection of cathedrals in the Isle de France.
A work of common endeavour, even the hand-carved details, in their thousands, speak along similar lines. Broadly pious, perhaps, but no shortage of humour in the gargoyles. These guys weren't addressing just technical purposes: they were in the midst of a conversation with God which even a near aetheist like me has to admit gave them a richness of purpose, the likes of which is rarely found these days. And earthly passion and hot-blooded competitive spirit too, lest we forget! Of course, the menace of politico-theocratic power lurks there; oppression, which we're well rid of. Except that what we've replaced it with is a shallow, miserable consumerism and a delight in ogling celebrities of little worth and celebrity architecture of little depth: if I'm going to focus on an icon, I think I can do better than a magazine cover.
Machine age? so last century. Post-Modernism? Cynicism incarnate: let's do more than articulate / celebrate existential vacuity. Veil ourselves in the modesty of Rogers / Piano / Foster craftsmanship? Afraid my ego's too big, though it's not exactly too late to mature into it... Nah, there's something more. Just a question of more thought, shared with more people. |
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phoenix.8811
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| Well... for me the best Architect is the God. He created the whole Universe. Now who can be better than that. If you ask me about the best architect of the world than it could just not be said because there are many architects who are better in every point of their way of designing. But according to me the world best architect is Sir Norman Foster. Thanking you. God Bless... |
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okiniili
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Who is my favorite architect?
I prefer Japanese architects.TOYO ITO,SEJIMA,NISHIZAWA...
Their architectures look light,transparent and pure.
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My favorite architect is me and my best work is one I have not created yet.
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