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KunstlerCast #5: Starchitects
KunstlerCast #5: Starchitects
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Length:
12 minutes
Released:
Mar 13, 2008
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
How and why did Seattle build that hideous new public library? asks one listener from that city. James Howard Kunstler tells us how cities get hoodwinked into a status fashion contest to have a museum or library built by one of the celebrity architects of the day. Rem Koolhass, Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman and others are deliberately designing these disastrous, anxiety-inducing mothership UFOs in order to mystify people into thinking they're supernaturally brilliant. And then we're stuck with these Gillette Blue Blade-clad fun houses for decades. (Info about program and theme music at KunstlerCast.com)Direct Download (7.1 MB): KunstlerCast_05.mp3
Released:
Mar 13, 2008
Format:
Podcast episode
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