Category: architecture

In Desire We Trust; The Artless Drawing: Neil Denari, 1982-1996 Ace Gallery / Los Angeles

By admin on Jul 18, 2010 in architecture, featured

In Desire We Trust
The Artless Drawing: Neil Denari, 1982-1996
Ace Gallery / Los Angeles

Mike Yong
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In 1982, after graduating from the GSD at Harvard, interning at Airbus, and taking a job at Polshek in New York, the architect Neil Denari began to initiate his own design projects under the name Cor-Tex. Cor-Tex had the following mission statement:
Through [...]

The Compromiser; On Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting, “Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism”

By admin on Jul 13, 2010 in architecture, book reviews, featured

Mike Yong

Bravado, nihilism, and emptiness mark the work of Robert Somol, an architectural theorist who has paradoxically made a career of undermining architectural theory’s hold on architecture. While Somol is styled as a theoretician, his work never rises above what can only be called the sloppy and superficial use of jargon. He once celebrated, for [...]