Thanks , it was head of grad program. Really appreciate your response and defense of her and her work. That is “old school” where critics defended their Group. And people disagreed about this. Most of her (after the Brasserie) work did not live up to the world class opportunities they got. Keep up the good work I just found your substack and am amazed by your knowledge and love of books.
Thanks for the reply. Blue dream owes more to student blob projects and Zaha than Kiesler. Formally awful, suburban and lumpy .....not worthy of publication other than a vanity publication. Sorry for being personal but Diller slept her way to stardom while we fellow students watched her become a Professor immediately at Cooper and then Dean at Princeton . She didn’t even produce a Thesis. These corruptions need airing when these cheaters rise to international prominence because of Identity.
Yes, Zaha too. I'll give you that. I don't want to go into Diller's rise to stardom, but I'm pretty sure she was never dean at Princeton. And though I don't stress it in my review, Blue Dream, like any building, clearly exists because of its clients, not just its architects, so the book is as much about the Taubmans as the house itself. I can only speculate, but without a rich client willing to expose their lives in print, the book wouldn't have existed or taken the form of a large coffee table book. And without the book, the house and the circumstances around it may have been kept secret; it was completed in 2017, after all, but wasn't presented in public until the just-published book.
Diller’s built work including this blob are just weak ( and poorly executed) and forms seem borrowed from others ....Slow house model is interesting but the form is student quality . Remember she got her start by sleeping with Ric who was her prof and 20 years older. ( I was at Cooper then) She is forever propped up by a compliant press . Am I wrong?
While I disagree about Slow House, I don't see how those personal circumstances are relevant to the quality of a project, and I'm not sure why you're singling out Diller among the three named partners, Blue Dream is clearly a Renfro project. My review is maybe too subtle on that point, though the debt the design owes to Kiesler's Endless House is undeniable. Slow House, on the other hand, is without precedent, at least not an obvious one that comes to mind; that's part of what makes it likable and memorable.
"The Book in the Age of.." looks brilliant! I'm about to design a monograph for a mid-sized architecture practice and I see lots of inspiration there. Do you know if there's an exhibition catalogue available as well? Couldn't find much online.
Also, how can I contact you directly John? I've tried the email-form on your website, but it didn't seem to work.
No, no catalog, unfortunately. And there are no immediate plans to turn that hefty mockup into an actual book...though if there were it would probably be years before it hit shelves. Hopefully the exhibition will travel, but I don't know of any plans for that either.
Thanks , it was head of grad program. Really appreciate your response and defense of her and her work. That is “old school” where critics defended their Group. And people disagreed about this. Most of her (after the Brasserie) work did not live up to the world class opportunities they got. Keep up the good work I just found your substack and am amazed by your knowledge and love of books.
Thanks for the reply. Blue dream owes more to student blob projects and Zaha than Kiesler. Formally awful, suburban and lumpy .....not worthy of publication other than a vanity publication. Sorry for being personal but Diller slept her way to stardom while we fellow students watched her become a Professor immediately at Cooper and then Dean at Princeton . She didn’t even produce a Thesis. These corruptions need airing when these cheaters rise to international prominence because of Identity.
Yes, Zaha too. I'll give you that. I don't want to go into Diller's rise to stardom, but I'm pretty sure she was never dean at Princeton. And though I don't stress it in my review, Blue Dream, like any building, clearly exists because of its clients, not just its architects, so the book is as much about the Taubmans as the house itself. I can only speculate, but without a rich client willing to expose their lives in print, the book wouldn't have existed or taken the form of a large coffee table book. And without the book, the house and the circumstances around it may have been kept secret; it was completed in 2017, after all, but wasn't presented in public until the just-published book.
Diller’s built work including this blob are just weak ( and poorly executed) and forms seem borrowed from others ....Slow house model is interesting but the form is student quality . Remember she got her start by sleeping with Ric who was her prof and 20 years older. ( I was at Cooper then) She is forever propped up by a compliant press . Am I wrong?
While I disagree about Slow House, I don't see how those personal circumstances are relevant to the quality of a project, and I'm not sure why you're singling out Diller among the three named partners, Blue Dream is clearly a Renfro project. My review is maybe too subtle on that point, though the debt the design owes to Kiesler's Endless House is undeniable. Slow House, on the other hand, is without precedent, at least not an obvious one that comes to mind; that's part of what makes it likable and memorable.
"The Book in the Age of.." looks brilliant! I'm about to design a monograph for a mid-sized architecture practice and I see lots of inspiration there. Do you know if there's an exhibition catalogue available as well? Couldn't find much online.
Also, how can I contact you directly John? I've tried the email-form on your website, but it didn't seem to work.
No, no catalog, unfortunately. And there are no immediate plans to turn that hefty mockup into an actual book...though if there were it would probably be years before it hit shelves. Hopefully the exhibition will travel, but I don't know of any plans for that either.
And here's my email: archidose[at]yahoo[dot]com