Thursday, November 12, 2009

The van Berkel stripped bare by her disassemblers, even

photographs: Bob Johnson

In her second childhood, on the road to oblivion, looking very much like she did at the beginning, in the promise of Spring . . .

4 comments:

Edward Lifson said...

Love the title.
-Rrose Sélavy

Anonymous said...

I really never understood these things. Were they meant to demonstrate that architects have profoundly impoverished imaginations absent the constraints of utility? Good riddance.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous - when visited you will notice the publics engagement with their company, the city and the folly with the armature for the engagement being these pieces. I felt they were very successful.

Impoverished imaginations? Did you see your city and its surroundings differently because of these?

Lynn Becker said...

Actually that was the problem. I - and many others - didn't see anything of my city in these structures - only the fevered agendas of a couple of Europhile academics.