Firstly, I have no idea what architecture criticism is exactly about.Apologies, if i'm making no pint from my argument. After going through each reading what echoed me the most was the article by Mathew Johnson "Architecture Doesn't Need Rebuilding, It Needs More Thoughtful Critics"
I think it is pity and arrogant that how modern architecture has lost its way and undergoing a radical transformation. Large number of architects in this country who are either trying to be Starchitects or to follow the lowest common denominator of populist sentiments. I would agree that they are all concerned with environment and social issues, space, materials an detailing and even fulfilling clients need by offering creative solutions that are unique. But the question is, at what point does architecture's potential to improve human life became lost because of its inability to connect with the actual human?
I think some of them are sensitive and take each building on their merits, without being dogmatic or reactionary. But perhaps part of the problem is whilst we do indeed still have all the old failing of architecture to content with - arrogance , ignorance etc., unconnected from the past, neighborhoods, public. To this i think because our profession is in the race to invent something unique and showy; the critics only points out the fact which are in that deli-ma
"the critique they offer is that contemporary architecture has become(or always was?) insensitive to user, to site conditions, to history - hardly a novel view". Architecture lives on acting a role in the life of the city and its citizen long after the original players are gone. i feel like they are making critiques in terms of money, design, sustainability but missing that makes a connection with the social and cultural context, past, neighborhoods and public. As written in "Architecture,Power and Identities: Surveying the Field" the architecture profession as being both configured by social power relations and a resource for their consolidation of legitimation. Bourdieu's work makes the point by linking the cultural and social values, which i think are the supporting elements of architectural practice.
I think it is pity and arrogant that how modern architecture has lost its way and undergoing a radical transformation. Large number of architects in this country who are either trying to be Starchitects or to follow the lowest common denominator of populist sentiments. I would agree that they are all concerned with environment and social issues, space, materials an detailing and even fulfilling clients need by offering creative solutions that are unique. But the question is, at what point does architecture's potential to improve human life became lost because of its inability to connect with the actual human?
I think some of them are sensitive and take each building on their merits, without being dogmatic or reactionary. But perhaps part of the problem is whilst we do indeed still have all the old failing of architecture to content with - arrogance , ignorance etc., unconnected from the past, neighborhoods, public. To this i think because our profession is in the race to invent something unique and showy; the critics only points out the fact which are in that deli-ma
"the critique they offer is that contemporary architecture has become(or always was?) insensitive to user, to site conditions, to history - hardly a novel view". Architecture lives on acting a role in the life of the city and its citizen long after the original players are gone. i feel like they are making critiques in terms of money, design, sustainability but missing that makes a connection with the social and cultural context, past, neighborhoods and public. As written in "Architecture,Power and Identities: Surveying the Field" the architecture profession as being both configured by social power relations and a resource for their consolidation of legitimation. Bourdieu's work makes the point by linking the cultural and social values, which i think are the supporting elements of architectural practice.
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