Joshua Prince-Ramus: Designing the Seattle Central Library

www.ted.com Architect Joshua Prince-Ramus takes the audience on dazzling, dizzying virtual tours of three recent projects: the Central Library in Seattle, the Museum Plaza in Louisville and the Charles Wyly Theater in Dallas.
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[@rypatvt]

joshua prince-ramus came to my school and gave a lecture exactly like this, only longer... talking about how he split from OMA and founded REX. such a badass. he is also covered in tattoos...

[@Rm-mq2qg]

Where? School?

[@SeattleRexx]

When I first saw it ,I thought it was hideous..but once you go inside, it's actually pretty damn impressive...you can spend an entire day in there exploring..I'm now a huge fan..it just works!

[@jermainericky7016]

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[@aaronmaximus6806]

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[@aaronmaximus6806]

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[@gegarner86]

I saw Joshua Prince-Ramus speak this summer in DC. He was amazing. My favorite thing he said: "Form doesn't follow function. Form f*cks function." The more you think about it, the more sense it makes.

[@LEEyring]

It made me sad to realize the Museum Plaza plans had been abandoned. It sounded like an amazing idea, but there were financial problems as well as problems during construction. I hope Joshua Prince-Ramus continues to help design incredible and beautiful functional buildings. :)

[@9030709520]

what software are used for making this presentation

[@MoutainGoat10]

studying engineering and taking architecture classes. I have a feeling a lot of that has to do with his work with no bs engineers and needing to sale to business people. just my thoughts

[@leoray1234]

You can definitely explore the whole day...but have you ever tried to find anything? Not that easy.

[@richardcortez845]

Vengo por parte del Maestro Aron

[@user-ys1pr6gi3s]

5:59

[@ridzz]

cool!

[@malekmahmoud2503]

Hey man you still alive?

[@anasalmajed9593]

@@malekmahmoud2503 maybe not

[@Nostalg1a]

Lawrence Cheek, the architecture critic for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, revisited the building in 2007 and found it "confusing, impersonal, uncomfortable, oppressive" on the whole, with various features "decidedly unpleasant," "relentlessly monotonous," "badly designed and cheesily detailed," "profoundly dreary and depressing," and "cheaply finished or dysfunctional," concluding that his earlier praise for the building was a "mistake."

[@eksiarvamus]

True, it is an interesting approach, but the result is hideous, it would ruin any skyline...

[@spikezkid022]

There's always a critic

[@Nostalg1a]

@@spikezkid022 There are more critics of this expensive mess than architects that fetishize OMA's work .

[@ajellis6168]

"HyperRational" That's the name of my band

[@osvaldovaldes10009]

no koolhaas, no library....ramus?

[@authoritease]

"Hyper-rational" is a misnomer here, and Ramos provides no productive definition. Research + data quantification (client needs/use/program) into built form is not new, and as presented, is simply a linear, logical, if playful process. My experience in the field tells me hyper-rationality is not so preferable for design unless you're a fascist or enjoy suffocation.

[@itge13]

uzh hät mi dahi bracht