https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/from-little-things-big-things-grow/ Gardenvisit.com Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/from-little-things-big-things-grow/#comment-1040 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:01:35 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2462#comment-1040 Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi’s Postmodern questioning of the everyday in Las Vegas seems positively Utopian in the light of the Post postmodern digital dystopia. [http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/desert_of_the_digital.shtm]

]]> https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/from-little-things-big-things-grow/#comment-1039 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:35:53 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=2462#comment-1039 The influence of Robert Venturi on the National Gallery Extension in Trafalgar Square was very good. His building respected the context in many ways – and I wish other architects working in London had learned more from this example. As with so many other environmental professionals, London architects are very much better at learning to say they right things than at learning how to do the right things, Richard Rogers design for Chelsea Barracks being a case in point: http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/2009/06/28/richard-rogers-sustainable-design-for-chelsea-barracks/

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