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The last thing we want is to create an air of indifference , because then you’ve succeeded in making just another gray building, which the world doesn’t need.”
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“Buildings should express a sense of of wonder and joy. There are reasons I”m not an accountant or a lawyer who deals in doom and gloom. Architects should deal in joy and delight.”
Though early moderinists did plenty to shape the way we make our buildings, the stripped- down, just the materials approach they pioneered could be downright hostile to ornamentation of any kind. The postmodernists brought color back to center stage and an increasing palette of materials making is easier for contemporary archtiects to bring in color into their work. – if they dare to break with Meier White or Miesian Black. We, at Spector Group www.spectorgroup.com , are the ones who dare. The use of color within a modernist vocabulary allows us to be true to our modernists beliefs at the same time allowing us to explore and move freely about.
January 18, 2008 at 7:57 pm
This is a refreshing approach to a unique problem. I am a developer on the West Coast of the United States always concerned about the proforma of one my projects. The problem we sometimes find ourselves in that we care so much about the all mighty dollars that we forget that what we pay to create is permanent. You forget that architecture creates all the environments we live in and work in. Do you want to live and work in a gray monolithic structure with no life? I know that I don’t.
Thanks for the insightful words.
David.
San Diego CA
January 18, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Thank you David
We work with Developers across the country and appreciate your position. We think bottom line proformas and IRR’s would not be effected at all by introducing creative, insightful design into the formula for success.
MBS