GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Cautionary Tale
27 Apr 2016
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Barcelona"s caf culture or nightlife locals and outsiders. Decades after olympics tensions between tourists and locals: blurring of boundaries and integration of different spatial practices and expectations (cid:0) tensions about uses and meanings of space. Area of tension: transformation of old port from a functional space with social problems to a recreational one, 7-lane road put underground, las ramblas, pedestrian mall, extended to the sea. Office buildings and signature architect: piano and foster in sydney: growing trend of hiring global signature stylistically identifiable architects to provide designs far from their head office. The international sale of design: emerging collectability factor of architecture. In lubricating the planning-approval process in sensitive urban contexts. In adding value to the building through reconciling urban context and architectural form with commercial development rationalities. In selling interior space of the building to prospective tenants. Frank gehry: the bilbao effect the guggenheim, bilbao, spain.
