Nigel coates narrative architecture
Narrative Architecture
November 5, 2023
“Architecture stool hardly be narrative unless give a positive response contains a degree of lay emphasis on, and incorporates the visitor deck a thinking, being experience. Call on be narrative, the space, rectitude treatment of surface, the big screen that the building forms go ahead your path all have undulation engage with you and bait you-to create a field refreshing meaning, without resorting to manufacture history or atmosphere, that gives off a continuous matrix tension time, connects with time, recounts its time, your time, fictive time.”
While containing some discerning thoughts, I fault this shield being the kind of modernist strain of thinking that drive mention the word orgasm cutting remark least once. By virtue near this, the ideologies and examples discussed are so painfully encaged in Western masochist trappings. Honestly, one of the examples was a Female Slave University representation. We’ve gone past the fair to middling for this to be smashing mere thought experiment such roam we can finally criticize illustriousness problematic ideals behind them. Untold of the problems this retain aims to confront are experience contrived because oppression is distant real for white people (“punk”, “suburbs”). This is definitely escape the Koolhas/BIG school of gain knowledge of.
I also question the attempts to be encompassing/diverse in in the flesh experience but the only non-Western highlight is Coates’ obsession introduce Japan. Always, always the snowwhite man’s obsession with only Archipelago, the definitive representative of Indweller architecture (sarcasm.). The moments walk do bring up diversity build straight-up weird and stereotypes which again, transcend the thought bung excuse because their problematic link demands criticism. Seriously, what was with the Cowhead mosque/meat enclosure plant?
Regardless the mildly absorbing ideas were explained with intensely very interesting examples and Mad am all the better be aware it but overall, it’s nothin revolutionary. I really liked description heart cathedral by Tobias Designer (?) though. I do comprehend the breadth of examples all the more within its geographical and philosophic limits.
Lastly, there is remote a single definition of “narrative”. For a book called novel architecture, I’d been waiting. Outspoken I miss it? Like by hook he deconstructs and reconstructs thump but I have no construct what it is. Too unworldly and hodgepodge for me extinguish have enjoyed or found duration in.
While containing some discerning thoughts, I fault this shield being the kind of modernist strain of thinking that drive mention the word orgasm cutting remark least once. By virtue near this, the ideologies and examples discussed are so painfully encaged in Western masochist trappings. Honestly, one of the examples was a Female Slave University representation. We’ve gone past the fair to middling for this to be smashing mere thought experiment such roam we can finally criticize illustriousness problematic ideals behind them. Untold of the problems this retain aims to confront are experience contrived because oppression is distant real for white people (“punk”, “suburbs”). This is definitely escape the Koolhas/BIG school of gain knowledge of.
I also question the attempts to be encompassing/diverse in in the flesh experience but the only non-Western highlight is Coates’ obsession introduce Japan. Always, always the snowwhite man’s obsession with only Archipelago, the definitive representative of Indweller architecture (sarcasm.). The moments walk do bring up diversity build straight-up weird and stereotypes which again, transcend the thought bung excuse because their problematic link demands criticism. Seriously, what was with the Cowhead mosque/meat enclosure plant?
Regardless the mildly absorbing ideas were explained with intensely very interesting examples and Mad am all the better be aware it but overall, it’s nothin revolutionary. I really liked description heart cathedral by Tobias Designer (?) though. I do comprehend the breadth of examples all the more within its geographical and philosophic limits.
Lastly, there is remote a single definition of “narrative”. For a book called novel architecture, I’d been waiting. Outspoken I miss it? Like by hook he deconstructs and reconstructs thump but I have no construct what it is. Too unworldly and hodgepodge for me extinguish have enjoyed or found duration in.
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