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As an aspiring critic of art and architecture, I sometimes get nostalgic for the early 19th century. It seems like my job would have been easier then. I can picture myself strolling through the galleries looking at pictures of voluptuous naked ladies and comparing them to socially prevalent norms of...
Contemporary critics have long since grasped this problem with the formalist approach, and have begun to focus more on the ways in which the work itself actively constructs meaning rather than falling into the pre-formalist and formalist traps of proposing that meaning exists in abstract externalities foreign to the...
Last summer I visited one of Frank Gehry’s recent buildings, the Disney Concert Hall, in Los Angeles. Gehry is a superlative example of an architect who has stopped worrying about meaning. His buildings are sculptural and spectacular, meant to be experienced rather than interpreted. Built in the...
I was furious. I was a big fan of traditional Harvard architecture and already being out of the Yard freshman year in Greenough, I was so mad to be in Mather. But then it took me three months and I was bleeding concrete.
For good measure, there's also the sheer beauty of the architecture at Kotohira-gu. Alongside the dozens of historic wooden shrines, one new addition is a stunning mountaintop building that houses offices as well as a reception area for religious ceremonies?an ultramodern edifice of rusted iron and glass...