Word: architecturee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Prevailing fashions in architecture, being fashions, tend to change course at just the moment they become mainstream doctrine. The effect (although not the intention, usually) is to make outsiders and stylistic slow learners scramble to catch up. Thus today, as the giant architectural firms have begun routinely gussying up their...
The mid-'80s shift in the consensus among cognoscenti has just been made ^ especially clear. This is the season of "40 Under 40," architecture's cliquish, roughly once-a-decade (1941, 1966, 1976 and this year) initiation rite, in which several dozen younger Americans were declared the best and the...
The new roster is authentically eclectic. The oddities are, if nothing else, evidence of the Establishment's endearing tolerance for the quixotic. Elizabeth Diller's and Daniel Libeskind's wooden sculptures are provocative and perverse and may (possibly) be interesting art, but how much do they have to do with...
A similar status is ensured for Rifat Ozbek. He is, quite literally, a young Turk, 32 years old and born in Istanbul. He studied architecture for two years at the University of Liverpool, but dropped out after construction technicalities began to overwhelm his design inspiration. Fashion offered a fresher, faster...
Gigli's eye, whatever it is checking out, is distinctly on target. If his label gives potential pronunciation difficulty (Row-may-o Gee-lee would be a reasonably safe try), the clothes, once worn, are instantly understandable. They indulge the body, bestowing a kind of inward elegance that the designer...