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Tag: Starchitect fails

David Adjaye and the dangers of hero worship

September 16, 2023 chriscosper

Until this summer, David Adjaye represented one of the most positive stories in the international architectural community: a Ghanian/British architect…

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Alison-Mayne House: sustainable or not?

July 7, 2023 chriscosper

It’s hard to tell, given the lack of hard data and allusions to the Almighty…. Is the Alison-Mayne House, designed…

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Filed under: architecture, climate change, Starchitect fails

A sharp piece of criticism from Ryan Scavnicky

July 3, 2023 chriscosper

Every 1,400-word essay should be so dense with meaning. Ryan Scavnicky, the founder of Extra Office and a teacher of…

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The Metaverse: an ideal home for the Starchitects?

April 17, 2022 chriscosper

Sometimes everything just works out. We have entered a period when the consequences of global climate change are glaringly apparent,…

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More bad PR for BIG

September 4, 2021 chriscosper

The firm that gave us “mega sustainable” architecture now gives us “hedonistic sustainability.” Rather than playing word games, perhaps BIG…

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Back to the Past

August 8, 2021 chriscosper

Nostalgia was once considered a medical condition that required treatment. As a society—and a profession—we may want to revisit that…

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Filed under: architectural education, climate change, Starchitect fails

Designing and constructing buildings is hard

June 5, 2021 chriscosper

Architects are often criticized for designing buildings that do not work well, and construction firms are often criticized for their…

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Bjarke Ingels Group’s latest proposal: actually sustainable or “is that just PR?”

May 23, 2021 chriscosper

It’s shelf shading. Adaptive louvers will reduce heat gain by 52%…. Meanwhile, every image also suggests the building is a…

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Sexism: yet another negative legacy of the Starchitect system

March 28, 2021 chriscosper

One of the many negative legacies of the so-called Starchitect system is the relegation of many women architects/designers to a…

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Twenty years in, the Pritzker Prize joins the 21st century

March 21, 2021 chriscosper

First the AIA Gold Medal and now the Pritzker prize? After years of bestowing praise on the practitioners of sillytecture,…

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