Wine Flasks in Bordeaux, Sail Spires in Cardiff
Hal Foster: Richard Rogers, 19 October 2006
Richard Rogers: Architecture of the Future
by Kenneth Powell.
Birkhäuser, 520 pp., £29.90, December 2005,3 7643 7049 1 Show More
by Kenneth Powell.
Birkhäuser, 520 pp., £29.90, December 2005,
Richard Rogers: Complete Works, Vol. III
by Kenneth Powell.
Phaidon, 319 pp., £59.95, July 2006,0 7148 4429 2 Show More
by Kenneth Powell.
Phaidon, 319 pp., £59.95, July 2006,
“... up other associations far more readily: sailingboats, church spires, wizards’ hats à la Harry Potter. The wine flasks in Bordeaux and the sail spires in Cardiff raise an important question: what is the relation between the civic role of architecture and its iconic power? Too often iconic buildings are asked somehow to stand in for the civic realm, as if ... ”