Teachers and young architects desperately need to change the path of architecture. Focus less on investors and more on the people. Focus more on whats logical and makes sense rather than whats flashy and fancy. Shigeru Ban is a great example for that. Through working smart and truly caring he established his own style, managed to help society and still got the chance to build extraordinary projects for "privileged people" in a more efficient way, still helping the planet. He won the highest price you can get in architecture and is honest enough not to want to be considered environmental architect... Not because he doesn't care but because he knows how much more is possible and because so many architects claim to be that by doing green washing and only doing PR on their work than actually doing work that could truly be considered good, innovative, environmental.
Happy New Year of love for architects achievements, wish you everybody have a lot of projects to work on, Mother Earth's suffering, we have to get focused in smart investments and environmental projects, untill every structure and urban area will work like a tree, eating the smog and release good healthy oxygen instead. Please ask more water architectures as anti fire disasters natural barricades and bring more water access in the desert, ocean's water can help us a lot. If we care to fight back global warming our planet must look like a Brasilian jungle and.. that's a vision I love a lot, you can bet on it, I am the biggest supporter of yours guys, long live thousand years more architects lovers❤🎉❤ Happy New Year everybody
Almost every time I see a new building, I am disappointed. Everything looks like it’s meant to be temporary. If it is meant to be temporary, it should be made of renewable materials. Why use foam, metal studs, and drywall and plastic on a fast food restaurant, or an apartment complex that will probably be torn down and rebuilt in ten to fifteen years? And if it’s something meant to be semi permanent, then build it solidly, and able to withstand any hazards it may face in its area. Stone may cost more, but if it’s built right and given proper maintenance, it will last forever. And it won’t be garbage in a landfill if it does come down.
Well said. It should be obvious and not worth mentioning, but it's really a challenge for the whole practice of this era to learn proper use of materials again
It’s an uniformed misunderstanding of modernism. They just see the success of reduction and misinterpreted it. It is successful because it sells to people with the same misunderstanding. People are culturally not very well educated and think they „want“ this boring ugly architecture. It’s the same with music, restaurants or bars…
yeah this profession is disgusting, why would you expect it doing any good to the society when the offices themselves exploiting their very own people “by nature”.
Most known architects should have become abstract artists instead of ruining the landscape of cities. An important part of art is that the viewer decides when to look at it. Buildings are different, everyone has to see them. That's why common taste is very important in building but irrelevant in abstract art.
@@tomthomson7367 Des milliers de gens regardent une maison 2 minutes alors qu’une famille vit dans sa maison des milliers d’heure. Bien sûr il ne faut pas du tout négliger l’impact d’un bâtiment sur le site, mais beaucoup d’architectes négligent l’usage d’un bâtiment. Essayons de concilier les 2 ! Meilleurs vœux.
Teachers and young architects desperately need to change the path of architecture. Focus less on investors and more on the people. Focus more on whats logical and makes sense rather than whats flashy and fancy. Shigeru Ban is a great example for that. Through working smart and truly caring he established his own style, managed to help society and still got the chance to build extraordinary projects for "privileged people" in a more efficient way, still helping the planet. He won the highest price you can get in architecture and is honest enough not to want to be considered environmental architect... Not because he doesn't care but because he knows how much more is possible and because so many architects claim to be that by doing green washing and only doing PR on their work than actually doing work that could truly be considered good, innovative, environmental.
Happy New Year of love for architects achievements, wish you everybody have a lot of projects to work on, Mother Earth's suffering, we have to get focused in smart investments and environmental projects, untill every structure and urban area will work like a tree, eating the smog and release good healthy oxygen instead. Please ask more water architectures as anti fire disasters natural barricades and bring more water access in the desert, ocean's water can help us a lot. If we care to fight back global warming our planet must look like a Brasilian jungle and.. that's a vision I love a lot, you can bet on it, I am the biggest supporter of yours guys, long live thousand years more architects lovers❤🎉❤ Happy New Year everybody
Almost every time I see a new building, I am disappointed. Everything looks like it’s meant to be temporary. If it is meant to be temporary, it should be made of renewable materials. Why use foam, metal studs, and drywall and plastic on a fast food restaurant, or an apartment complex that will probably be torn down and rebuilt in ten to fifteen years? And if it’s something meant to be semi permanent, then build it solidly, and able to withstand any hazards it may face in its area. Stone may cost more, but if it’s built right and given proper maintenance, it will last forever. And it won’t be garbage in a landfill if it does come down.
Well said. It should be obvious and not worth mentioning, but it's really a challenge for the whole practice of this era to learn proper use of materials again
It’s an uniformed misunderstanding of modernism. They just see the success of reduction and misinterpreted it. It is successful because it sells to people with the same misunderstanding. People are culturally not very well educated and think they „want“ this boring ugly architecture. It’s the same with music, restaurants or bars…
Inspiring work
yeah this profession is disgusting, why would you expect it doing any good to the society when the offices themselves exploiting their very own people “by nature”.
Very good opion
Most known architects should have become abstract artists instead of ruining the landscape of cities.
An important part of art is that the viewer decides when to look at it. Buildings are different, everyone has to see them. That's why common taste is very important in building but irrelevant in abstract art.
Je doute que partout dans le monde, on trouve du papier recyclé, au milieu de nulle part, il y a plutôt de la pierre, du bois ou de l'argile.
and in Miami . . .
Perhaps we should learn that the inner house is more important than the outer house
Thats wrong.
Much more people pass by and only see the outer house
@@tomthomson7367 really !?!
@@tomthomson7367 Des milliers de gens regardent une maison 2 minutes alors qu’une famille vit dans sa maison des milliers d’heure. Bien sûr il ne faut pas du tout négliger l’impact d’un bâtiment sur le site, mais beaucoup d’architectes négligent l’usage d’un bâtiment.
Essayons de concilier les 2 !
Meilleurs vœux.
I can understand why a majority of architects resort to working for elites. It is not an easy way to make a living, doing architecture.
Ban is a Korean surname...is Shigeru Ban Korean -Japanese?
Most architects have too big of an ego.