Posted by Richard Haut on February 03, 2002 at 16:43:46:In Reply to: Or . . . posted by Paul Malo on February 03, 2002 at 16:22:42:
The Secession Gallery compared to a drawing of a boiler at the back of a building in a cartoon ?No wonder students have to turn to comic books for "ideas".
There was some discussion about Art Deco a while ago and being surprised at the lack of written material I have been looking into sources here in Nice. What I find curious about this casual interest (it can hardly be called "research") is not just the information uncovered on, say, the palais de la Medierranée designed by Charles and Marcel Dalmas in 1930, but the ancillary information. I am not an architect but I am well aware that architects find ideas in precisely those unexpected areas - the scheme for redesigning the promenade des Anglais also in 1930, the new streetlight designs, glasswork by Labouret, photographs by Lartigue, mosaics, friezes, sculptures, other buildings, other architects and designers.
If architectural students are not encouraged and guided to find out this type of information for themselves (and equivalents exist in virtually every city), then I can only wonder at the nature of the teaching.
Perhaps the impression that the "inspiration" for students is only to come from the rehash of a rehash of a rehash of three or four modernists is no illusion. Architectural nihilism may already be a reality.
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