Architecture CodeX #90 Seattle Central Library by Rem Koolhaas

GRUNGE ARCHITECTURE: Architecture CodeX explores whether the new library was influenced by the Seattle's Grunge Music scene. Is it "form follows disfunction?"
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[@briansieve]

Your opening contextual portion was awesome!

[@williamsmith5549]

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.....!!!...

[@architecturecodex9818]

True. I listened to many and saw more obscure bands but the ones I mentioned the ones where I bought all their vinyl.

[@williamsmith5549]

@@architecturecodex9818 You MUST have been a METALLICA fan, c'mon???? BTW, can you still get into your Schott Perfecto? I've replaced mine a couple of times, but I always keep one in my closet...lol.....Keep the masterpieces coming, always love your posts!

[@architecturecodex9818]

@@williamsmith5549 I hate to disappoint, but I was not, and I had a simple leather jacket which I have patched and wear even if the silk lining is worn down. I appreciate the volume and energy, but I really look for a clever lyric to. And I had only so much band width for favorite groups. My daughter is a big Metallica fan, so I must have had the gene in me.

[@architecturecodex9818]

@@williamsmith5549 and if people like you keep watching, I will keep making the videos!

[@liori3770]

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…?

[@architecturecodex9818]

Well, the decline of western civilization is another topic but I discuss that at length, sort of, in #45 in the Pompidou Centre regarding Post Modern philosophy.

[@liori3770]

​​@@architecturecodex9818Indeed. If you look at the comments section of that episode, you will notice we discussed it there as well. :)

[@architecturecodex9818]

@@liori3770 indeed!!!!