Comments on: Architecture and the Hippie Movement http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2008/08/26/architecture-and-the-hippie-movement/ The source on how we live, work and play Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:43:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: 21st Century Spirituality · Life stream of 2008-08-28 http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2008/08/26/architecture-and-the-hippie-movement/#comment-5344 21st Century Spirituality · Life stream of 2008-08-28 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:54:59 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/?p=2433#comment-5344 [...] Michel Bauwens: Creative Class » Blog Archive » Architecture and the Hippie Movement - Creative Cl... [...] [...] Michel Bauwens: Creative Class » Blog Archive » Architecture and the Hippie Movement - Creative Cl… [...]

]]> By: Brian http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2008/08/26/architecture-and-the-hippie-movement/#comment-5282 Brian Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:55 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/?p=2433#comment-5282 I concur with Wizo. Am I the only one who thinks that Gehry's and Koolhaas' buildings look like crap? Not only are they ugly, but they seem anti-urban to me, almost purposely so. I think this kind of architecture has nothing to do with the city or urban form, and instead is a "dilettantish and narcissistic pursuit, a chic component of the high art consumer culture...", as Jacobs and Appleyard put it. These buildings aren't visually arresting, they are terrible, and the architects who "design" them are frauds who hate cities. I concur with Wizo. Am I the only one who thinks that Gehry’s and Koolhaas’ buildings look like crap? Not only are they ugly, but they seem anti-urban to me, almost purposely so. I think this kind of architecture has nothing to do with the city or urban form, and instead is a “dilettantish and narcissistic pursuit, a chic component of the high art consumer culture…”, as Jacobs and Appleyard put it. These buildings aren’t visually arresting, they are terrible, and the architects who “design” them are frauds who hate cities.

]]> By: Wizo http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2008/08/26/architecture-and-the-hippie-movement/#comment-5278 Wizo Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:36:17 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/?p=2433#comment-5278 'organic' architecture is seen by many architects as sculpture, and not architecture. It has to function - serving its intended purpose. Gehry's buildings are known for disfunction: inability to hang a painting on a curved wall in an art gallery, sunlight concentrated in a concave face of the facade magnified and reflected into neighboring buildings, snow/ice falling on heads, etc. ‘organic’ architecture is seen by many architects as sculpture, and not architecture. It has to function - serving its intended purpose. Gehry’s buildings are known for disfunction: inability to hang a painting on a curved wall in an art gallery, sunlight concentrated in a concave face of the facade magnified and reflected into neighboring buildings, snow/ice falling on heads, etc.

]]> By: Patrick Adler http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2008/08/26/architecture-and-the-hippie-movement/#comment-5277 Patrick Adler Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:25:53 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/?p=2433#comment-5277 The Organic Architecture movement with its playfulness and focus on recycled materials, seems to have been picked up by the hippie movement. New Mexico has a ton of organic buildings like this one by Bart Prince. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/100813953_4555d3af9a.jpg?v=0 It also has a ton of hippies, communes, and hippie soft drink makers. The Organic Architecture movement with its playfulness and focus on recycled materials, seems to have been picked up by the hippie movement.

New Mexico has a ton of organic buildings like this one by Bart Prince.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/39/100813953_4555d3af9a.jpg?v=0

It also has a ton of hippies, communes, and hippie soft drink makers.

]]> By: Zoe B http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2008/08/26/architecture-and-the-hippie-movement/#comment-5274 Zoe B Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:27:59 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/?p=2433#comment-5274 San Francisco's hippie culture not only created the new, it re-valued the old. Hippies revived Art Nouveau style, you can see it in the classic concert posters and album covers. The houses of Haight-Ashbury made Victorian gingerbread cool again, albeit with non-traditional paint colors. Communes revived old handicrafts: candle-dipping, soap making, yogurt culturing, and so on. The Tassajara Bread Book taught a generation raised on Wonder Bread how to make their own bread. San Francisco’s hippie culture not only created the new, it re-valued the old. Hippies revived Art Nouveau style, you can see it in the classic concert posters and album covers. The houses of Haight-Ashbury made Victorian gingerbread cool again, albeit with non-traditional paint colors. Communes revived old handicrafts: candle-dipping, soap making, yogurt culturing, and so on. The Tassajara Bread Book taught a generation raised on Wonder Bread how to make their own bread.

]]> By: Elizabeth M http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/2008/08/26/architecture-and-the-hippie-movement/#comment-5267 Elizabeth M Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:36:24 +0000 http://www.creativeclass.com/creative_class/?p=2433#comment-5267 San Francisco, naturally, always seems to have the monopoly on hippie culture. I don't know much about architecture but I hope other folks chime in here because I'm curious to see where there are other unknown hippie enclaves, particularly any that might be in unexpected locations. San Francisco, naturally, always seems to have the monopoly on hippie culture. I don’t know much about architecture but I hope other folks chime in here because I’m curious to see where there are other unknown hippie enclaves, particularly any that might be in unexpected locations.

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