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progressive reactionary skip to main skip to sidebar 18 november 2009 preserving entropy from the new york times the dia foundation s oxymoronic futile and yet nonetheless commendable effort to preserve smithson s spiral jetty gotta love it promulgated by progressive reactionary on 11 18 2009 08 30 00 pm 36 reactions topics art preservation 28 june 2009 afterparty p s 1 stopped by the opening of mos s outdoor installation afterparty at p s 1 this afternoon i must admit my expectations are not typically stratospheric for these things since the limited budget for the annual young architects program really precludes anything too ambitious and frankly the projects of the last few years have been kind of redundant in the sense that there are only so many ways to skin a cat or in the case of p s 1 provide shade and seating for the throngs of dancing hipsters who show up to the weekly warm up parties so with that said i was content today to enjoy the nice weather and check out a few of the new shows up at the museum when i arrived at p s 1 however i was pleasantly surprised by mos s towering furry cones rising above the concrete wall perimeter the aesthetic of the dark brown thatched structures which from afar resemble hairy beasts and up close look dirty and unfinished is a kind of raw ugliness that is refreshing both in the context of the p s 1 summer pavilions and in the broader contemporary architecture scene at a time when the architectural ideal always seems to be some combination of uber smoothness total transparency and formal acrobatics here is a project that with its gauche shaggy towers chews up those qualities and spits them out right back at you the project s title afterparty is presumably intended to somehow set up a dialog between the design and the post boom climate that architecture and the city at large finds itself in i m not sure how exactly this rhetoric pans out but one way of interpreting the project is as an aesthetic critique of boom era architecture and in that respect it s remarkable there are plenty of flaws particularly a weak attempt to tap into some kind of primitive imaginary with the architects reference to bedouin tents as well as the passive cooling effect rhetoric which this patron did not experience but overall mos led by michael meredith and hilary sample can be forgiven for over reaching here and there it s a successful project and even more so for pulling off such a feat in such an off year i suppose there were unemployed students aplenty though available to help build the thing a postscript it was also entertaining to eavesdrop on people s reactions to the piece overheard phrases included snuffleupagus planet of the apes flintstones hairy chests promulgated by progressive reactionary on 6 28 2009 09 27 00 pm 17 reactions topics architecture new york reviews 07 may 2009 the architecture of the credit crunch another day of bizarre weather here in new york as the thunderstorms cleared for a second time i just snapped this photo looking down barclay street at the new goldman sachs building that s almost done it is to put it mildly unimpressive did the credit crunch render the storied investment bank unable to procure a decent curtain wall particularly in comparison to the unexpectedly gorgeous 7 world trade visible to the left the bank s new building looks especially shoddy promulgated by progressive reactionary on 5 07 2009 07 49 00 pm 27 reactions topics architecture new york 21 april 2009 the twits progressive reactionary can now be found on twitter better late than never let s see how long this lasts promulgated by progressive reactionary on 4 21 2009 09 45 00 pm 10 reactions 15 april 2009 strange times image china radio international via ny times just when you think things could not get more surreal with republicans staging teabagging parties across the nation and pirates once again ruling the high seas you come across a news story like this dolphins saving a chinese freighter from pirates promulgated by progressive reactionary on 4 15 2009 04 54 00 pm 22 reactions 11 april 2009 creatures on the beach image strandbeest com i came across this ted talk by dutch artist theo jansen who makes these fantastic kinetic sculptures called strandbeests they are stunning and apparently analog computing systems that exhibit behaviors that we would normally associate with living organisms not handmade assemblages of plastic piping jansen s simple manifesto as expressed on his website imagines a kind of future utopia of these creatures in perpetual motion along the coastline a curious amalgam of futuristic and pre modern ideas of life and culture since 1990 i have been occupied creating new forms of life not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic material of this new nature i make skeletons that are able to walk on the wind so they don t have to eat over time these skeletons have become increasingly better at surviving the elements such as storms and water and eventually i want to put these animals out in herds on the beaches so they will live their own lives theo jansen strandbeest com well worth a look ted talk theo jansen the art of creating creatures promulgated by progressive reactionary on 4 11 2009 04 33 00 pm 11 reactions topics art 09 february 2009 surreal orhan ayyuce calls this the day the iconic building died should be interesting to see how koolhaas spins this one update 11 20pm est from surreal to the sublime and back again more photos courtesy of fuzheado s flickr site one wonders if this won t go down as a pruitt igoe moment for the excesses of contemporary architecture promulgated by progressive reactionary on 2 09 2009 09 52 00 pm 6 reactions topics architecture china koolhaas 03 january 2009 towards a critique of sustainability from the latest issue of volume a decent critique of that ever elusive term sustainability the very word emptied of meaning through overuse increasingly dominates architectural design and discourse and frankly it drives me crazy people use it all the time without really knowing what they are talking about i always ask sustainable of what too often the word becomes appropriated as a band aid cure all additive that can be applied as environmental ecological veneer to an architectural project like icing on a cake but the word has become such a all encompassing buzzword a signifier onto which so many different aspirations and agendas have been projected that it doesn t really mean anything anymore panayiota pyla s article in volume starts to address these concerns and formulate a real critique of sustainability pyla focuses on the the historical underpinnings of the contemporary sustainability movement from rachel carson s silent spring to the un environmental conferences of the 1970 s and how these precedents can inform the potential pitfalls that we face by investing such uncritical faith in the s word the crux of pyla s argument perhaps the key issue here is to be vigilantly aware that as a concept and as a practice sustainability is constantly running the danger of turning into a totalizing doctrine that subsumes critical thinking and another key section maybe it is good that sustainability does not have a fixed or coherent definition maybe it should never have one because if the technical questions of energy efficiency or the technocratic questions of efficient resource use or even the questions of socioeconomic management end up constituting the definition of sustainability in architecture this will threaten to reduce design to a series of small decisions on materials energy or feasibility that will ultimately have less to do with design and more with management or with political correctness apropos of the flawed leed rating system which constitutes the mainstream standard of sustainable design in this country these are some wise words worth a read via archinect promulgated by progressive reactionary on 1 03 2009 02 21 00 pm 4 reactions topics architecture criticism sustainability 02 january 2009 a new year it s a difficult thing in the midst of two wars a burgeoning economic disaster an escalating conflict in gaza and countless other calamities worldwide to identify things to look forward to in 2009 but if there s one thing that 2008 taught us it s that hopes are not always left unfulfilled even in the face of seemingly insurmountable adversity we forget this lesson at our peril as this new year unfolds at some point over the holidays in between reading about the rick warren nonsense and the impossibly delusional phenomenon that is rod blagojevich i was hit by a simple yet profound realization that the status quo in this country has shifted let me be clear i do not intend to enter the fray of meaningless arguments over whether we live in a center left or center right country the center is and remains the center i dare not speak of a political realignment for i know how fleeting these moments can truly be see karl rove 2004 what i m talking about is a deeper shift in the cultural psyche of a nation a shift in people s expectations tolerances aspirations and ambitions for what is possible sure obama and the incoming administration as do all governments by definition represent the status quo but to put it simply it s a different and better status quo than that which governed us a year ago and that alone merits quiet celebration even in these uncertain times here s to a hopeful 2009 and stay tuned to this progressive reactionary as we persist in questioning challenging and continuously re imagining our new status quo promulgated by progressive reactionary on 1 02 2009 03 19 00 pm 1 reactions topics polemics politics 21 december 2008 ground zero from above at a party on the top floor of 7 world trade center a few weeks back i managed to snap a photo of the massive construction site below seeing the state of affairs laid out before my eyes some fifty stories below i thought to myself wow we ve come a long way but boy do we have a lot of work yet to do i ll leave you with that as i escape to the dark woods of the the northern wilderness for the holidays see you all in 2009 here s hoping it s a good one pr promulgated by progressive reactionary on 12 21 2008 06 28 00 pm 16 reactions topics architecture new york older posts home subscribe to posts atom premise towards a progressive reaction on hope about me progressive reactionary email me progressivereactionary at gmail com view my complete profile syndication posts atom posts all comments atom all comments topics 911 7 america 8 architecture 79 art 2 balkans 1 blogs 10 boeri 1 borders 4 brooklyn 1 china 1 columbia 2 communism 1 criticism 19 dubai 2 eames 1 economics 3 eisenman 2 exhibitions 4 fabrication 1 fat 3 foa 2 form 5 foster 1 frampton 1 gehry 2 geography 1 globalization 1 goldberger 3 gulf region 6 herzog demeuron 1 history 3 iconography 4 iraq 1 israel palestine 1 johnson 2 katrina 7 koolhaas 2 landscape 2 las vegas 1 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