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- From: mcgonig@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Gordon McGonigal)
- Subject: Re: architecture is not art (!)
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:56:13 GMT
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- brad@buck.viewlogic.com (Bradford Kellogg) writes:
- >Not far away from there, you can look at the Guggenheim Museum, designed
- >specifically to house what is unabashedly billed as ART. But it is not
- >limited to science and practice. The Guggenheim clearly is a work of art
- >itself. Whether you call it good art is another question, but I don't
- >believe anyone could have designed such a shape or space without employing
- >the creative imagination. It is, rather than ornamented architecture, an
- >ornament itself, and yet it is architecture. Drawings were made, engineers
- >and contractors followed them, and we now have architecture which is also
- >art and ornament and the result of science and the creative imagination
- >all at the same time.
- How well are some of these FLW creations still functioning as buildings?
- Sitting in my armchair, I heard a rumor that some of them are crumbling
- due to unsound construction. No doubt this happens when art is more
- imperative than science (engineering and proper testing).
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- Gord McGonigal mcgonig@eeserv.ee.UManitoba.ca
- Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering
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