Archive for April, 2010

Leftist leanings

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

Thursday's shoot-out/debate between Jeff Kipnis and our own Bob Somol brought an interesting follow-up to my rant about the superficiality of the vision of architecture advanced at UIC. Both of the supposed duelists stood on the side of architecture's political engagement through form, rather than the "leftist" and "functional" attitude ...

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Thursday, April 1st, 2010

I'm beginning to understand why I haven't been seeing eye-to-eye with most of the UIC faculty - they're mainly concerned with finding new forms and new ways of generating form, while I'm interested more in the social engineering side of architecture. This really came to the forefront at yesterday's debate between ...