Both-And – Architecture Article by Brian Carter
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Both-And
Architecture Design Discussion – article by Brian Carter, Buffalo, NY, USA
3 Jul 2018
Both-And – Architecture
BOTH AND – The Monthly Report
Advocates for REPLACE and RESTORE lined up quickly after the recent fire at Mackintosh?s School of Art in Glasgow. Yet the suggestions only provoke questions and highlight the need to consider different approaches.
?BOTH AND?, an approach reiterated by Robert Venturi in the sixties, has a distinguished history in architecture and continues to prompt inspiring work. Carlo Scarpa?s restoration of the Castelvecchio in Verona, Sverre Fehn?s embrace of buildings as landscape, the Mound in Edinburgh and Toshiko Mori?s additions alongside Wright and Rudolph are projects that readily come to mind.
aerial photo courtesy of Police Scotland
And others follow – the heavy stones so thoughtfully re-assembled at Braga under the direction of Eduardo Souta Moura, Jeremy Dixon?s discovery of lost space that subsequently provided an alternative view of the National Portrait Gallery, interventions at Berlin?s Neues Museum and connections at the Royal Academy in London all demonstrate different yet inspiring approaches to design.
Each of these projects underlines the value of close scrutiny in contemporary architecture and considerations of historic buildings that can, in turn, inform a search for viable alternatives to simplistic recommen...
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