" questo spazio è stato pensato per dare un’opportunità agli studenti di architettura di Trieste di trovarsi, conoscersi e scambiarsi notizie informazioni esperienze….
come tutti sappiamo bene la situazione della facoltà è piuttosto precaria: mancanza di una sede, carenza di spazi, penuria di attrezzature, precarietà dei docenti… sono tutte condizioni che minano le nostre possibilità di vivere l’esperienza universitaria in maniera piena e produttiva. "

28 giugno 2009

Rem Koolhaas on CNN, the end of the star architect?



CNN’s Talk Asia just featured an interesting interview with Rem Koolhaas. At the beginning of the video we see the Prada Transformer in action.

Highlights of this interview are Dubai, which lead to Koolhaas talking about the public sector and the stimulus, and his views on the Generic City.

When talking about influence (Rem was on the 100 most influential people list by Time magazine in 2008) and “star architects”, Koolhaas sentences the term to death:

“I think it’s a name that is actually degrading to the vast majority of people it is applied to. And it really is a kind of political term that for certain clients is important because they use star architects. My hope is that through the current complexity that title will exit discretely and disappear”.

da ArchDaily

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