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yohei72 (August 23, 2008 at 2:08 pm)

If you're going to attempt rhyming homophobia, at least spell it right. I wonder why borderline illiteracy is so often associated with such bigotry... Oh, wait, I don't.

loui5friend (August 19, 2008 at 12:11 am)

There's a saying you should think about:

Those who can, do.
Those who can't, criticise.

yohei72 (August 23, 2008 at 2:03 pm)

Are only architects allowed to criticize architects? Or are only their fans allowed to comment on them? Do you object to the many positive comments, most of them presumably from people who "don't do"?

Artists, especially architects, put their work in the public eye, and often with public dollars. The public is entitled, indeed obliged, to comment, and not just bow.

Perhaps YOU should think a little more before regurgitating cliched non-responses that amount to "Stay in your place, peasant."

woaisansan (August 23, 2008 at 7:36 pm)

I that it fortunate that you have yours and I have mine. I don't like any of the buildings you've listed either but I still acknowledge them as part of culture. You certainly have the right to judge the architecture itself, but you do not have the right to judge the opinions of others.

woaisansan (August 23, 2008 at 7:37 pm)

The fact is that you have no idea how the public will look back and see these buildings in 100 years and it is on that basis that I said your thinking was rigid and small. There is much to learn about architecture from everyone and everything and every project.

woaisansan (August 23, 2008 at 8:26 pm)

Although to be fair, given some thought, it is not that simple. Recently it has solely become the architect's responsibility to LEARN about architecture and that is a problem. It's so easy to criticize the things happening in Dubai and China but it was not so long ago that Chicago and New York were being criticized in the exact same way, and now they are cultural icons and swarming with preservationists. Architecture reflects society and the only way to change anything is to have perspective.

cohenleeor (July 16, 2008 at 2:37 am)

sad one of his last projects was the first gay church good contribution to gods earth

Impresioniste (June 23, 2008 at 2:52 pm)

In future, only his architecture will talk for they. Not tv, not newspaper, not prices, not polithicians, etc. And their works is very bad compared to Mies, Lecorbusier, Miguel Angel, etc.
And then we will laugh.

woaisansan (June 11, 2008 at 10:52 am)

even hardcore modernists don't appreciate such small, rigid thinking.

yohei72 (August 23, 2008 at 2:05 pm)

One person's "small, rigid thinking" is another person's... oh, I don't know... "standards." You've got yours and I've got mine. Unfortunately, yours seem to be the ones largely dominating architecture for decades. That "Bird's Nest" atrocity at the Beijing Olympics comes to mind as just one of the latest examples.