Architekt und Architekturhistoriker
In discussions about architecture, individual qualities are often elevated to the status of ultimate criteria. One generation celebrates structural expression, another sustainability. Some architects prioritise flexibility, others beauty, economy, material honesty, social inclusion, or energy performance. Each of these concerns is legitimate. Yet architecture rarely succeeds because it excels in only one of them.Watching major …
Weiterlesen "Complex Value and the Architecture of Integration"
In recent decades architecture has increasingly been described as a service. The language of the discipline has shifted accordingly: efficiency, performance indicators, delivery models, stakeholder management. Architects are often asked to demonstrate that their work behaves like other professional services—predictable, measurable, and optimized.This description is not entirely wrong. Architecture certainly contains service elements. Buildings must …
Weiterlesen "Complex Value: Why Architecture is more than a Service"
Jüngst hat sich die ‚Königin der Kurven‘ in London ein schillerndes Denkmal ihrer schicken Designarchitektur gesetzt, das auf den klangvollen Namen ‚Serpentine Sackler Gallery‘ hört. Die futuristisch anmutende, mit viel Anwenderfleiß aus den Computern gehämmerte Formverliebtheit, die jede Grundgesetzmäßigkeit architektonischer Erfahrung auf den Kopf zu stellen sucht, scheint hier eine neuerliche Hochleistung erreicht zu haben. …
Luigi Monzo 