Goodbye Starchitects, Hello Kazys
Chicago is all the rage: first Obama, and now Blair Kamin. The Tribune’s architecture critic just put out a biting little piece confirming that “icon architecture is no longer the issue du jour. it’s sustainability—and survival”. And infrastructure, of course.
We certainly didn’t get to this point out of the blue. For years now, a number of people within architecture and related fields have stayed away from the shiny newness of starchitecture, choosing instead to delve into the oversights and obscurities of our everyday built environments and realities.
Kazys Varnelis is probably one of the most constant and eloquent of these (now spreading) voices. In the midst of things, the latest book he edited and we published, The Infrastructural City, is a real knockout.
Check out the reviews of the book at Tropolism and We Make Money Not Art.
* photo by Lane Barden.
