I know what you mean. I was thinking along the lines of, ok, here are the most lovely houses I've ever read about and they seem to be turned into exhibitions while they'd be such nice places to live in were it not for all the people wanting to see them.
I didn't even know about L'Unite before we studied it at uni :) L'Unite D'Habitation is quite cool in the fact that it's standing on pillars and you can walk underneath this big building. Also, I really liked standing on the roof, it felt sort of like floating. But the man didn't connect his architecture with the outside world much and that is the main thing that bothers me about his work: the fact that nature for him is something to be admired from afar. I love the glass pavillion thingies like the one you plan on having in your post :) Because it enables you to be there, among the nature in bad weather and yet not be cold, get wet from the rain etc.
Well thank you for calling Ljubljana beautiful :) even if you were just being nice and all. There is a lot being said about sustainability, but I feel around here it's really more about theory. I loved a lecture I was on by Glenn Murcutt (Australian architect, great guy) and what he does is he doesn't try to create beautiful architecture, but he tries to do something that is as functional and sustainable as possible (really working best to suit the site, collecting water from roofs etc.) and in the end, his buildings really work, whether you think they're beautiful is a secondary issue.
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Date: 2006-05-19 07:31 am (UTC)I didn't even know about L'Unite before we studied it at uni :) L'Unite D'Habitation is quite cool in the fact that it's standing on pillars and you can walk underneath this big building. Also, I really liked standing on the roof, it felt sort of like floating. But the man didn't connect his architecture with the outside world much and that is the main thing that bothers me about his work: the fact that nature for him is something to be admired from afar. I love the glass pavillion thingies like the one you plan on having in your post :) Because it enables you to be there, among the nature in bad weather and yet not be cold, get wet from the rain etc.
Well thank you for calling Ljubljana beautiful :) even if you were just being nice and all.
There is a lot being said about sustainability, but I feel around here it's really more about theory. I loved a lecture I was on by Glenn Murcutt (Australian architect, great guy) and what he does is he doesn't try to create beautiful architecture, but he tries to do something that is as functional and sustainable as possible (really working best to suit the site, collecting water from roofs etc.) and in the end, his buildings really work, whether you think they're beautiful is a secondary issue.