Comments on: Moshe’s Modernism http://designistdream.com/2007/12/10/moshes-modernism/ "If you design it, it is no dream" Mon, 14 May 2012 21:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: ben http://designistdream.com/2007/12/10/moshes-modernism/comment-page-1/#comment-1161 ben Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:39:33 +0000 http://designistdream.com/2007/12/10/moshes-modernism/#comment-1161 good good

]]> By: Carol Holliday http://designistdream.com/2007/12/10/moshes-modernism/comment-page-1/#comment-1102 Carol Holliday Fri, 25 Dec 2009 01:22:58 +0000 http://designistdream.com/2007/12/10/moshes-modernism/#comment-1102 I think rather than "Modernist", we can consider Habitat '67 at least, a "Brutalist" expression. I think rather than “Modernist”, we can consider Habitat ’67 at least, a “Brutalist” expression.

]]> By: Ziva http://designistdream.com/2007/12/10/moshes-modernism/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Ziva Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:11:14 +0000 http://designistdream.com/2007/12/10/moshes-modernism/#comment-72 My-kel! You make some good points my friend. However, think a bit less harsh in your interpretation - perhaps a beehive structure is a challenge to our definition of what constitutes a home. Is it its geometry? Its relationship to four walls and a roof (slanted or slated)? Maybe like bees we also seek shelter and refuge from our work or where we work. But I always thought of the beehives as eggcrates. Hence the home is like a cradle for eggs. A place for creating or being creative... Where littluns start out... Oh My-kel! My-kel! You make some good points my friend. However, think a bit less harsh in your interpretation – perhaps a beehive structure is a challenge to our definition of what constitutes a home. Is it its geometry? Its relationship to four walls and a roof (slanted or slated)? Maybe like bees we also seek shelter and refuge from our work or where we work.
But I always thought of the beehives as eggcrates. Hence the home is like a cradle for eggs. A place for creating or being creative… Where littluns start out…
Oh My-kel!

]]> By: michael http://designistdream.com/2007/12/10/moshes-modernism/comment-page-1/#comment-69 michael Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:53:46 +0000 http://designistdream.com/2007/12/10/moshes-modernism/#comment-69 Ziva, Ziva, Ziva. You misapprehend me! I like Falling Water! I like Bauhaus! I love the Thermometer Building! I have nothing against <i>Modernism</i> - my own beloved Art Deco is a product of the Modernist movement - I just think Moshe Safdie is a dreadful example of it. I mean, the man may, unlike the average Israeli urban planner, plan ample green space - but then he goes and does some damn fool thing like obscuring the horizon with two monstrous beehives stacked atop a ziggurat, so that when you're <i>in</i> the green space, instead of being able to see the lovely olive-studded hills of the Central District, you just see a series of monumental paeans to "Yehiruto shel Moshe." Seriously, Zeev, what's up with the beehives? If modernist aesthetic is meant to connote the building's function, is Lord Safdie saying that the beehives are meant to house a bunch of featureless drones who exist only to harvest pollen? (Actually, maybe.) I also think that in a way Israel is where Moshe Safdie goes to be lazy. His international projects at least usually demonstrate some sort of innovation or creativity (failed as it may be), but in Israel, he can just draw up another Lego castle and be home in time for siesta. In conclusion: nuts to Moshe. Nuts, I say. Ziva, Ziva, Ziva. You misapprehend me! I like Falling Water! I like Bauhaus! I love the Thermometer Building! I have nothing against Modernism – my own beloved Art Deco is a product of the Modernist movement – I just think Moshe Safdie is a dreadful example of it. I mean, the man may, unlike the average Israeli urban planner, plan ample green space – but then he goes and does some damn fool thing like obscuring the horizon with two monstrous beehives stacked atop a ziggurat, so that when you’re in the green space, instead of being able to see the lovely olive-studded hills of the Central District, you just see a series of monumental paeans to “Yehiruto shel Moshe.”

Seriously, Zeev, what’s up with the beehives? If modernist aesthetic is meant to connote the building’s function, is Lord Safdie saying that the beehives are meant to house a bunch of featureless drones who exist only to harvest pollen? (Actually, maybe.)

I also think that in a way Israel is where Moshe Safdie goes to be lazy. His international projects at least usually demonstrate some sort of innovation or creativity (failed as it may be), but in Israel, he can just draw up another Lego castle and be home in time for siesta.

In conclusion: nuts to Moshe. Nuts, I say.

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