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[David Morris]

>From: MalignD at aol.com
>
><<Did the tenants design the buildings?>>
>
><<Architecture in America, good and bad, has been beholden to the corporate
>dollar.  It's the Seagram's Building, not "Mies van der Rohe's black box."
>
>Pointless point.>>
>
><<Is Viking Press responsible for Gravity's Rainbow?  Why don't we call it
>_Viking's Rainbow_?>>
>
>The (pointless) point that seems to evade you is that someone with the 
>price
>of a few reams of paper can write a novel.  Lacking clients, architects can
>build little wooden models and the like, but not buildings.
>
>

Authors can write books which are never published also.  If that happens the 
ideas on paper remain.  Those architects who get buildings built are often 
folowers of greater visionaries whose ideas never transcend "little wooden 
models and the like."  Very often they are professors who influence numerous 
generations of architects.  The point you evade is artistic responsibility, 
the genisis of the vision.  You are incorrect to assume the leading visions 
in architecture are generated any differently than those in literature.  
THAT is a very simple point, which requires blinders to overlook.

David Morris

David Morris

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