Tag / Academic
The Big Idea
“In Los Angeles, Eric Owen Moss, Morphosis, RoTo, Daniel Libeskind during his life in L.A. and after, and Michele Saee, prominent among the many, presented architectural strategies that, if not in fact poststructuralist, appeared when annotated by its authors as spatial and literary metaphors of poststructuralism.” Johnson, Scott. The Big Idea: Criticality…
Sci-Arc Gallery: “I Broke the Glass” Installation
“In the SCI-Arc installation, as well as in the Publicis building, the steel structure is a force of momentum, rising towards the sky with a kinetic spiral structure. Partially veiled with the shifting and overlap of the curved laminated glass panels, the entire surface achieves a quality of both depth and lightness reflecting…
Heteropolis by Charles Jencks
“One of the great strengths of the L.A. School and hetero-architecture in general is its ability to work with and against the existing context at the same time. Virtually all the best work of Morphosis, Israel, Moss, Saee and company is a conversion – typically of a warehouse. Some architects are at their best…