Koolhaas: Just another opinion.

As I continue to read [learn] more about Rem Koolhaas and his evident, strange, often contradicting opinions about architecture, I ask find myself asking the question, "why?"....."why do we take as gospel, one man's opinion on the way the world turns, the way architecture is and the way it ought to be, and what is good and bad with the world we live in? It's as if there are a set of laws, written by this man, which govern the way the profession is to act. Architecture, the profession of architecture, in my opinion, is no different than that of academic architecture [disregarding the ethical decisions which are the true good/bad premise of a project] in the sense that it is most often viewed subjectively. If Koolhaas were to write a manifesto titled 'Why we should stop designing buildings', there is no doubt in my mind that an infinite number of people [designers, architects, etc.] would put down their pencils, roll up their sketches, power off their computers, and buy into what he was saying. And to this, I laugh.

There is an insatiable amount of good architecture, existing and operating on honest principles, happening across the globe, that as students we know very little about. Architecture that is beneficial, able to be related to, exists "for" the people, truthfully understands people, and accepts the differences that it must deal with. THAT, is the architecture I want to learn about. Not the opinions which are cast down upon us like rain from architects who believe that air-conditioning controls architecture, that people in airports are delusional bums, or that all aspects of life should be some form of artificial reality. 

But I'm tired. So I'm going to bed. 

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