Word: spatialization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Architecture has been nostalgic forever for a bygone era," he says. Lynn isn't. At 35, he's already a much discussed theorist who teaches at both UCLA and the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland, where he is nothing less than professor of spatial conception and exploration. At FORM, his Los Angeles-based architecture firm, he practices what he preaches. When an online home-furnishing company, Prettygoodlife.com chose him to design its showrooms, it asked, he says, for "a blob that can mutate but maintain its basic identity." (Think of Liz Taylor in the '80s.) Lynn gave them swelling...
...glass Parthenon, like Mies van der Rohe's National Gallery in Berlin, or an elaborately "timeless" spatial event, like Louis Kahn's Kimbell Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. It is not an operatic signature building, like Frank Gehry's titanium-sheathed meganautilus in Bilbao, Spain. Still less is it a feat of conspicuously externalized luxury, like Richard Meier's Getty Center, poised in marble aloofness above Los Angeles...
...settle down at the computer screen and read the news on the Web. Something catches my eye - old business. The National Transportation Safety Board has decided that John Kennedy Jr. probably became disoriented in the night sky almost a year ago off Martha's Vineyard. The novice pilot's "spatial disorientation" caused the crash. We knew that, didn...