Wow that sales force bit was great 😂🍆

Your point of view is valid of course, but it is based on a benign outlook of the future of civilization based on its present trajectory and on the present capabilities of AI. Both of these underpinning assumptions are changing and will change as we are seeing a global system that was created after WWII to prevent and mitigate Global War that is in the midst of failing and AI is still only in its nascence with indications that it is already capable of autonomous reasoning and sentient reactionary perspectives. So, we'll see what the future really holds for the tech. I am not as optimistic as you. By the way, you can already get yourself a Jetpack, but it is not mass marketed because there is no money to be made from it in a mass market.

Gehry ends in “Why?”

My initial response before watching this video? No. Just like AI generators can't figure out how many fingers a hand has, they won't be able to navigate the intricacies of even residential design. Sure, it might give the impression of it... and maybe the hand will have the right amount of fingers. I guess one could gamble that generated output will be acceptable for a building, but it's unlikely. At the VERY least, the generated stuff will need to be supervised, vetted, and revised... which gets us back to square one, anyways. Edit: I do use AI to help me quickly navigate to a code section, but its interpretations get really crazy. I can still gaslight GPT4.0 into believing that absolutely incorrect math is an acceptable output.

Great video - I think you often mean “consequently” instead of “subsequently”

Nice presentation, thank you. Not finding the Scheider House, do you mean Schneider? Additionally, find no video on your channel for the Kentucky Knob, more problematic, #50 is on a different Frank Lloyd Wright design. Hope this helps. Cheers, Adriel

I have been there. What a beautiful place. I used to know a doctor who bought one of their personal houses. He had it completely taken apart, put in new electrical, plumbing and insulation and then had them put it back just as it was when taken apart. It was an unreally beautiful house. You could not tell it had been taken apart.

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Neither cheap nor easy.

Gehry’s design for Case Western ignored the Cleveland climate and sheets of ice fall from the metal roof at great peril to pedestrians. Apparently he thought the project was in LA!

As always, your final comment is EVERYTHING. What are you currently working on, BTW? One of my faves of your catalog is when you presented some of your own projects, would love to view more? Thanks again for what you do!

Well said ... and for me an up-close street level visit with the brick base is a disappointment. Luckily the scale affords distant views whether taken by still camera or video, or for that matter the human eye, that almost guarantee the covering up of the brick annex.

Thank you, great video, love it!

Society has forgotten the intrinsic value of living with good design❤thank you for a beautiful reminder

Incorrect! that is the most historically false statement in the history of history. Islam has always allowed religious freedom and guarantees their safty. The Muslim world was Sanctuary for Jewish people for 1,400 years. The West in 15,000's was in meddle of the reforrmation. Catholics & Protestants were a at war

I grew up in the area and have been inside the beautiful Bahai Temple several times. It always impresses everyone as a landmark.

It seems the above mentioned temple (which I have visited and was impressed with) is a 8-sided structure as were the 8-legged spidery sculptures that stood in Rockefeller Center (which I have visited and was creeped out by). Unless somewhere along the way I had forgotten that the temple and spidery sculptures were by the same architect/sculptor I have continually been under the impression that the sculptor who did the spiders was a woman and never made the connection, until now, that the 2 disparate works were by the same individual.

Personally the capital needed a bit of monumentalism and modernity and I am glad they were built, even as a large sterile complex straight out of Star Wars as it was so well put. Are they out of place? Of course but that was the point... The rest of the city can remain historic and quaint but a capital city of this supposed importance needs to look the part. Same thing happened in Edmonton when they decided to turn 108 Street into a monumental axis... All the small-scale buildings and boulevard trees were replaced by sterile modernist architecture and blank plazas, though not to any real negative degree. The goal was visibility of "The Dome" along major corridors and it works...

I am from Buffalo NY and I have been in the 2 Wright homes there.I now live in FL I have been to the FL Southern College in Lakeland FL and to the Guggenheim in NY all a must see

Very informative. I'm satisfied with my mid-century small ranch house - somewhere between brute socialist apartment blocks and homes that require 40 acres of manicured grounds.

Would never vote for the guy for president but as a Chicagoan I still love the building. Just an additional piece to the landscape.

This video brought me back to my early memories as a child.... the feeling that there were very substantial men doing very substantial and historic things. The world felt so "solid" and "permanent" back then.... of stone, glass and heavy beams. God bless FLW.

I dont understand how you don't have more followers yet! Awesome videos!

Check out The Oude Kerk ( Old Church) in Ámsterdam. It leans 2 meters from the vertical.

Wright and the other architects who designed “less than comfortable” chairs should have taken a road trip to Sam Maloof’s workshop and home. The Maloof rockers were designed originally for nursing mothers, so you can bet they were comfortable. I’ve wondered what Wright would have thought of Maloof’s home, hand-built by Sam primarily of wood right down to the door latches. My Frank Lloyd Wright book collection (more of an accumulation, actually) sits next to my single Sam Maloof book. I almost hate to pull them off the shelf because a quick review of a particular item invariably becomes an hours-long page turner.

"Experience is the thing you get right after you needed it." AKA: Hindsight is 2020. 🙂

"The columns from the outside and the ceiling you see from the inside is the structure, and not some decorative element. Beauty is not attached to it. The building is about Truth; the response to the immutable forces of gravity and from that Truth, Beauty is derived." I love this quote! I'm glad my architecture tutors dragged us out to see this building when we were in Rome. This brings back good memories!

È il central Park Tower è piu alto del Burj Khalifa, ora è Central Park Tower edificio più alto del mondo informati

Sei proprio cattivo, nel 2023 sono venuta a New York e con amico agente immobiliare ho visitato il Central Park Tower e penthouse 250 milioni di dollari, ha il terrazzo più bello e più alto dell osservatorio, è un capolavoro certo voi americani la classe e l' eleganza non la conoscete infatti seguite i Kardashian come fate a capire la bellezza della Central Park Tower?😅😅😅

SO true, true, a million times true. So great to hear this and see it in print. It is about time that this functionless art which is also formless is denounced for what it is: a vapid and meaningless, soon to be relegated to the dustbin of history, expression of personal ego, societal prejudices and quest for 15 minutes of fame and money. Kudos to you!

I was not prepared to love this building as much as I do. The sweep of the nave is remarkable. The image of Mary over the front door is stunning. The tapestries stand on their own.

LOOK AT THE PALLADIO DRAWINGS AND COMPARE WITH PHOTOS OF THE BUILDING. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME. THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME CHANGES MADE ON THE BUILDING SIGHT BY ARTISTIC LISCENCE.

Yet another great ACX! Undoubtedly, the most important and influential cultural phenomenon coming out of Seattle would be CHAZ - when the western civilization will have collapsed, we shall all look back proudly and know where it all began. Putting that aside, great episode about a great building with a nice wider cultural references - it is not common for me to come across a figure with whom I share so many similarities and so many opinions. Your reference to Smells Like… made me think that just as Cobain’s voice is re-recorded and echoed several times in the song’s chorus, to bring it to a powerful climax, so could one see the repetition of the same architectural shtick in the library, which brings the entire building to an architectural peak. Side note: it is very upsetting to find out two great buildings, each for its own time, were torn down to make room for a predecessor. People never learn… don’t they…?

Comments, as always… 1. We have discussed thin shell structures in Arch. Codex before, one of my personal favourite types of buildings. I cannot recall on which episode - maybe the JFK Saarinen one. One thing worth mentioning about hyperbolic paraboloids is that despite the seemingly complex wavy shape, it could be achieved before CAD days, since the construction solely relies on straight elements. 2. I would argue one cannot mention this Vegas hotel, without mentioning Felix Candela. If I am not mistaken, and although this is a bold claim to make, I reckon he was one of the main architects to widespread introduce thin shell structures, and especially this lovely flowery design. 3. One proof Molinelli is an old soul? At 3m35sec you claim that a black and a female architect were not acknowledged at their time, due to their architectural style. If only you were more up to date, you would claim it is all due to systemic suppression, or something similar. How nice it is to still hear a voice of reason. 4. Great architect I never heard of. Thanks for introducing him! As always, keep up the splendid work!

So much awesome here! Let's not forget the late 80's gave us the best of Siouxsie and the Banshees, as well as The The and The Sisters of Mercy. And METALLICA, which must have inspired Koolhaas' Library, right??? "Enter right; Please talk light! Show your card. Then check out your books for now...." We totally shoulda been bros, bro.....!!!...

What is the morality of Molarity by M. Molinelli? I need to get my molar pulled out!

The elephant in the room is the (lack of) historical and architectural importance of the building. One would assume that such endeavor, would be something for generations to come to remember and look back at with awe. However, this is far from being the case. The same can also be said for the pompous, shopping-mall style, Baudrillard Vegasque architecture in Mecca. Now, I don’t know if it is only the stale architectural taste of 20th-21st century Muslim autocrat rulers, with overly deep pockets, that generates such tasteless religious buildings, or whether it is the general low-spirit of the Muslim world in our days - but it is somewhat of a shame. This architecture is mediocre, albeit impressive in its craftsmanship, at best.

As someone who has been to a rather intimate lecture of Nouvel, you made the old fellow sound like a flamboyant French perv… which is a rather accurate description of the guy. Haha. In any case, if only Dildo Agbar were to be built in Qatar, next to the Hadid Vagina Stadium, we might have had a good reason to think of sexual body parts. But they are not, and therefore, the pervs are probably us.

Must be a very proud father! Beautiful. Much success and blessings.

Haha, but now stack them together in less than 5 seconds. Now, that’s some talent!

The interesting comment you made after the Sopranos pause, made me think of Soane’s approach towards classical ruins, and also Speer’s concept of buildings that would be ruined gracefully. If only I had more time, or talent, I could have writen an entire piece about it. 😊

The reason Arch. Codex has a growing following is only due to the outstanding creator and host. At any rate, if Piazza Navona could serve as a parking lot during the 50s and 60s, Piazza d’Italia (or is it Pizza d’Italia?) could be very proud of its adjacent parking square - You’re in good company! One small correction - despite your Italian background, I can hear you make a small error in your pronunciation of the square’s name. It is not “piazza deltalia”, but rather, the I is a capital I, not a lowercase L. Meaning, the name is “piazza ditalia”; “the square of Italy”.

If there is a heaven I hope in my heart of hearts that it will look like Usonia. - Frederick A. Lee / ARCHITECT

Remember, you can see Manuela and Gina in concert at the Sheen Center in NYC on May 1, 2024! www.sheencenter.org/events/detail/maneula-molinelli-her-nyc-debut

I'm not a big fan of Post-Modern Architecture in general but in the right setting it can be whimsical and aesthetically additive in a positive way. I say this having lived in Las Vegas for 4 years and having been to and / or through the French Quarter in New Orleans several times but not since 2007. I do not recall being familiar with the Piazza D'Italia previously, but I am familiar with the Italian history and cultural aspects of the city and ate at a couple of Italian Restaurants on my visits to and through the city. New Orleans and the French Quarter in particular is a fun and beautiful place and worthwhile visiting but I cannot imagine Post-Modernist Architecture will ever be truly embraced by the citizens there, much less the tourists who go there for the Cajun and Creole Influences and are seeking the Spanish-American Colonial and French and Italian influenced Architecture.

What a little gem. Fun, and funny, yes, but also a charming and inventive tribute to Italian architecture. It's a shame developers haven't used this intelligently. A relatively low rise (3-4 stories) screen around it of sympathetic buildings, perhaps in a simple rendered more prosaic Italian style (e.g. as in Rome's Trastevere), housing cafes, restaurants and shops, with apartments above, could cement this as a place worth visiting and living in. You wouldn't even have to use that much of the car park. If you like humour in architecture, especially witty but elegant use of classical style and motifs, often in conjunction with more vernacular styles, I recommend Edwin Lutyens. Yours is a really interesting channel, Michael. Thanks for this video.

It is astonishing that a parking lot exists cheek by jowl to the piazza. How can the real estate industry of New Orleans and other movers and shakers of the city be so remiss in capitalizing on such a unique amenity!?! Having never walked the site myself, but being a student of urban placemaking, Jane Jacobs and William Whyte, I offer up the tried and true temporary fix: food trucks, with solely electrical-powered generators.

I used to work in beautiful downtown Brooklyn from 1986-2001 when it wasn't so beautiful, and love the new building, and it's a beautiful building nonetheless. Nice to see the area doing well.

He says outside of Manhattan - well the Sears tower,......

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