History in the Making
Rem
must know he's pulling one over on the world's richest idiots. Before you and I are old and gray, people are going to be shaking their heads at these poorly-made, flash-in-the-pan experiments that subvert norms without providing anything in the way of improvement. It'll be a lot like the backlash against Brutalism, I suspect. Interesting forever, but simply not a
good idea at any time. And don't think it's conservatism that's making me say this. Texas shouldn't need to build vertically, and library stacks are not easier to use when they're distributed along a
giant corkscrew. Even Le Corbusier knew enough to punch holes in the walls of his infinite museum. Oh, and don't forget that Corb never tried to build his diagram.
Star-Telegram | 06/13/2004 | Brilliant, Big D!A red opera house? A vertical theater? It was all so strange -- and brilliant, too.
Maybe Rem Koolhaas is a secret Star Trek fan. The visionary Dutch architect's blocky, unconventional design for the Wyly Theatre owes a tip of the hat to the cubelike spaceship of the Borg, the Next Generation crew's pitiless opponents.
* Ray, 6/16/2004 04:35:33 PM
