"You can't design without knowing schedules and contracts. You can't do schedules and contracts without knowing how to design."

-- Joshua Prince-Ramus

 

Seattle Central Library. (Photo source: Esquire.com)

The Young Savior of American Architecture Burying Frank Gehry

Joshua Prince-Ramus is waging a holy war against the sculptors, starchitects, and fey theoreticians of his profession. And in the process, he's actually building things.

By Scott Raab 

The written history of Western architecture dates back more than two thousand years, to Vitruvius Pollio's De Architectura; architects have spent the past millennium debating whether his three fundamental goals should be properly understood to mean "commodity, firmness, and delight" or "durability, convenience, and beauty"--mainly because architects love nothing more than arguing about theory and the varieties of architectural experience. >>> Read More