Posted by Manuel Oliveros on September 30, 2000 at 14:13:25:In Reply to: Why nobody follows Foster solutions? posted by Paolo Galarrita on September 30, 2000 at 08:05:39:
I think even foster, far less flowery than one Rogers, is too much for the far more rattonal and constructive spirit of the States. The liberties seen in the big buildings in Europe (nor to say Japan) find to some extent difficulties of expression in the US, that for the cases rely more on sheer size and repetition, as pertains to its presnt status of objective power that is.
Foster being no doubt some very worthy architect, he has had to come to terms even more than his first works suggested with the engineering aspects related to the big works he has had to undertake.
I have sacarce doubt of that this is some general situation and environment issues will be dealt more and more with technology. However, some of the stances seen in architecture about the way of making buildings and their inner environment, even in foster, I see quite vauous of meaningful content. This is surely one shared thought by many architects taht face many issues that make such issues quite moot when compared with others at hand.
In short, I think the particular solutions by Foster are not being seen, say, as relevant as those of Le Corbusier's pilotis to be acknowledged worthy of general application; so they are discarded.
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