10(+) MORE architects i have been thinking about

YAY PRITZKER

http://mamariapapoila.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/peter_zumthor1.jpg

Nice. I'm pretty sure his chapel was put up somewhere else here(perhaps it was on the other thread) but here's another view of it anyway...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3265/3122721913_bcb11d573d.jpg

Lots of detail on it on the flickr page from whence it came. The photographer,seier+seier+seier, has a big set of architecture photos worth seeing.

Yeah, Seier is the man! Great photos, really selective with what he posts, and obviously a thoughtful writer. Definitely learned a lot from him.

At this point AFAICT the Pritzker is a kind of honorary award for living long enough and doing at least two or three buildings nobody dislikes. It helps that Zumthor lives in a hermit hut in the middle of the Alps (or something to that effect) and hasn't made any enemies. I don't mean to diminish him because I love his buildings - but it's interesting to ask who HASN'T gotten it by now that arguably "should" have... if I ever remember my Archinect login info maybe I'll take it over there though.

^otm

My reaction on hearing who won the Pritzker every year is usually "What? They didn't already have one?"

sure that's partly it but i'm such a staunch fan of zumthor. i really do think he's the best in the world!

plus he was the first architect posted on the 10+ architects thread and that was surely taken into consideration by the panel when they made the decision.

well yeah I mean Zumthor A+ good job well deserved glad it wasn't Pelli etc. etc.

Agreed with all the above.

So perhaps an interesting question would be: who DOESN'T have one yet? The list to date:

1979 Philip Johnson (1906–2005)
1980 Luis Barragán (1902–1988)
1981 Sir James Stirling (1924–1992)
1982 Kevin Roche
1983 Ieoh Ming Pei
1984 Richard Meier
1985 Hans Hollein
1986 Gottfried Böhm
1987 Kenzo Tange (1913–2005)
1988* Gordon Bunshaft (1909–1990)
1988* Oscar Niemeyer
1989 Frank Gehry
1990 Aldo Rossi (1931–1997)
1991 Robert Venturi
1992 Álvaro Siza Vieira
1993 Fumihiko Maki
1994 Christian de Portzamparc
1995 Tadao Ando
1996 Rafael Moneo
1997 Sverre Fehn
1998 Renzo Piano
1999 Lord Norman Foster
2000 Rem Koolhaas
2001 Herzog & de Meuron
2002 Glenn Murcutt
2003 Jørn Utzon (1918-2008)
2004 Zaha Hadid
2005 Thom Mayne
2006 Paulo Mendes da Rocha
2007 Lord Richard Rogers
2008 Jean Nouvel
2009 Peter Zumthor

(Not sure what's up with the two winners in '88 - it's a Wikipedia footnote that doesn't go anywhere.)

Of all these the only complete ???s to me are Portzamparc, Mayne and Murcutt - they just seem a little out of their league, but that might just be my personal taste.

Who's missing? Eisenman obv, but the sense I get is that he's made too many enemies. My friend Evan is betting on Steven Holl...

good bets in the next 10 years:

Ito
Botta
Ban
Diller & Scofidio
Maki
Calatrava

btw today it was announced today that the group led by Adjaye won the Smithsonian African American Museum competition! Official group is Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup which is too many collaborators to ensure a good project.

Still, glad they beat out the others and excited about the building

http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2009/04/14/PH2009041401230.jpg

maybe Predock also for upcoming Pritzker

also adjaye? maybe in ten years.

morphosis?

I'm really thrilled by Adjaye's work but he's at a really critical point in his career where he's got more on the boards than he's built in total - can he keep up the quality control and the material/light sensitivity that have made him so good so far or it he growing much too fast? If he comes out of the next three or so years without a dropoff in quality he's a lock for pretty much every award there is.

i can't see him going all zaha.

don't insult zaha she's a very good painter.

changing the subject... this thing is unbelievably hideous:

http://www.spaceinvading.com/bookmarklet/Images/02040912387166573395621835_c7680bfa1a_b.jpg

i knid of didn't want to sully the thread with it but wtf?

Oh god I don't want to see/talk about that thing. There was a time when I wanted Ito to break out of his neat white geometric solid/void facade thing, but be careful what you wish for...

wtf is that?

it looks like an office building that got drunk at the christmas party and is trying to do a mean impression of Torre Agbar because it's jealous.

it looks like a red plastercast

cozwn: http://www.spaceinvading.com/index/page/9

I DIED - i'm guessing that ice-cold bar thing upthread that you hated so much has been usurped as an unfavourite?

Botta = missed his chance I think - last ten years have not been sympathetic to this kind of stuff

Ban = agreed, total lock

Diller & Scofidio = after a few more buildings, yeah

Maki = already got one

Calatrava = oh god please no

Predock = plausible but not adding much

Morphosis = Thom Mayne, already got one

I DIED - i'm guessing that ice-cold bar thing upthread that you hated so much has been usurped as an unfavourite?

nope! I think my intense hatred of that wine bar is based on the fact that I do a lot of bar/restaurant/nightclub design, so I know damn well I can do and have done better than that. When I look at even the ugliest 30 story building I think "well, it got built, it's standing up and it's probably waterproof, got me beat".

I agree that Holl is almost certainly getting a Pritzker in the next few years.

"well, it got built, it's standing up and it's probably waterproof, got me beat".

qft.

When I look at even the ugliest 30 story building I think "well, it got built, it's standing up and it's probably waterproof, got me beat".

I really should print this out and pin it up at my desk as a reminder to be humble..

c'mon, it's not like he did it himself.

can someone explain all the massive ooohing and aaahing that goes on whenever someone builds a catilevered stair? sometimes it seems like the only reason a design gets any attention. it doesn't always look bad, sometimes the more blocky ones look very good but when i see something like this

http://materialicious.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/17/samalot_4.jpg

i find it not only unsafe-seeming but actually fairly ugly too. also i kind of wonder to what end the trick is being performed in the first place. it just seems so one-note and joyless to me.

oops - like this:

http://www.stairporn.org/images/2008/08/17/samalot_4.jpg

OOOOH:

http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/650127592_em2n-022-lie-070720-047023-cg-0720-047035-hannes-henz.jpg

http://www.archdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/1961022048_em2n-022-lie-070720-046546-cg-0720-04655830-hannes-henz.jpg

incredible

Yeah that stair is sexy as hell. The room, of course, is playing a big part in that - not so bad to be surrounded by a striated wall cove lit from top and bottom.

I would love a video compilation of the first time people with new badass cantilevered stairs in their house have to carry something heavy on them or try to navigate them while drunk.

omg

http://www.spaceinvading.com/bookmarklet/Images/30040912411331892017396872_selgascanooffice2381.jpg
http://www.spaceinvading.com/bookmarklet/Images/30040912411331901035034548_selgascanooffice2507.jpg
http://www.spaceinvading.com/bookmarklet/Images/3004091241133192339777624_selgascanooffice2885.jpg

i'm in love again. and i can't rise above it. i'm in love again. and i love, love, love it.

!!!!

just imagine... working there!

http://www.archdaily.com/21049/selgas-cano-architecture-office-by-iwan-baan/

So, I been a-travelin' again. As always, continuing coverage at my Flickr, and links below take you to lengthy babble by me...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3647/3491589926_62d4dea3d4.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3304/3491547738_b1e76c3630.jpg

Future Systems - Metropolis Tower

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3301/3495061524_bc508c3ea3.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3623/3494992794_8e30934402.jpg

PLOT (now BIG and JDS) - VM-Husene

(More and better to come! A lot of this batch are kind of dingy and gray - Copenhagen weather turns on a dime, so I have tons of gorgeous photos of buildings I wasn't in love with, and then by the time I got to the real treats the clouds had swung overhead.)

love this! http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3302/3494169041_a1f622eb9f.jpg?v=0p9

Ouroussoff brings the hammer down on the latest version of Calatrava's WTC transit hub:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/11/arts/design/11calatrava.html

God I loathe Calatrava, honestly, one of my least favorite architects. Instinctive challops to some degree, but also I just have never been stirred by the soaring poetry of big white strutty things. It just doesn't do anything for me, and it's always the same damn thing. That said, I wouldn't wish the WTC quagmire on my worst enemy - see the very accessible popular-press book Sixteen Acres for a painfully thorough discussion of that...

Oh, and

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/3514820228_03f34d05f5.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3539/3514982637_679d55fa30.jpg

Sigurd Lewerentz, St. Petri Church in Klippan, 1962-1966

My exterior photos are mostly kind of cruddy, the light was coming and going and I'm still getting used to this camera. Seier and jmtp both have really nice ones though.

(xpost) I'm the same way - with the complexity of the site and Calatrava's tendency toward simple solutions and poor grasp of circulation mechanics (hello Milwaukee!) it seems like the transportation hub would have been much better suited to an SOM or OMA.

OMA would have been amazing - they stayed the fuck away from Ground Zero, though; the author of that book speculates that it's because Rem knew a no-win scenario when he saw one.

If the competition were happening now I suspect a few of the form/blob/"flows" types might be big enough names to take it on - FOA post-Yokohama for example, or UN Studio (inevitably with SOM or somebody else who really knows train stations). Might have still ended up a signature piece with too many cooks in the kitchen... but there is a whole school of architecture that has been trying to reckon with paths/vectors, motion in form, blah blah, it would have been an interesting moment for them. For better or worse. Instead, oh boy, another Calatrava building...

http://blog.archpaper.com/wordpress/2009/05/11/hadid-opera-house-burns/

lol china?

result!

maybe they have a starsonist