They're nihilists, Donny.
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Nihilists! ..Fuck me. I mean, say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos
John Goodman in The Big Lebowski
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It takes a very confident and charismatic person to invoke change in architecture: an architectural politician. Architecture needs a politician to make it exciting to people outside the field. Ingels has appealed to the masses with his beautiful, simple graphics, and he continues to wow the public with his daring designs that are total anarchy. They twist and turn to peer around other buildings and fill the spaces between more established architecture. They take the morals and values of other designers and insert total anarchy, without ethos. Bjarke Ingels is a nihilist.


I personally wouldn't go as far to say Bjarke is a nihilist, as I think (for the most part) he accounts for the human condition, but Eisenman on the other hand, complete f%$# nihilist. I do agree with you that their architectural expressions are hyperbole, where Eisenman is indexical and Bjarke is diagrammatic (as discussed in class).
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