Gage Buchmeier

[Gage Buchmeier @buchmeier_gage]

I think one thing that most people don't realize is how important the context of the city is to the design. A design has to work with its context or it will not be used properly #architecturalhistory

[Gage Buchmeier @buchmeier_gage]

I think the post modern city being scrambled and well mixed up at every level isn't necessarily true as even today we still have city planning that largely separates different zones #architecturalhistory

[Gage Buchmeier @buchmeier_gage]

Its funny that there are countless examples yet people still try to do complete plans of a city and then get surprised when the city rejects it and maintains the status quo #architecturalhistory

[Gage Buchmeier @buchmeier_gage]

Its interesting that buildings used to be torn down and rebuilt for new programs but now we repurpose them in ways that are more interesting than anything that could have been built from scratch #architecturalhistory

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The idea of exploring abandoned areas and coming up with new programmatic uses could potentially be really cool in America considering all the abandoned places within cities that we see #architecturalhistory

[Gage Buchmeier @buchmeier_gage]

I'm glad I wasn't in school in the 60's when to be a good architect, you were encouraged to make the most simple thing you possibly could. The profession seems to have come a long way from that time #architecturalhistory

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@CladyKelsey Its interesting when architects are able to take these local practices and implement them into the architecture

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@DylanFruchey People come up with some weird analogies

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@naw_assumpta I think every space has to have a designated purpose in order to be activated

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@WojcikPaige I think we need to find more ways to deal with these problems as opposed to learning about their existence with no additional info for a solution

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@Charlie21722222 I think the only way for this to happen is to substantially increase green space in cities, both horizontally and vertically, by intertwining them with the built environment

[Gage Buchmeier @buchmeier_gage]

@ehcap23 I think whether our process or inspiration is similar, we will inevitably have very different designs that will continue to change architecture

[Gage Buchmeier @buchmeier_gage]

Woods calls reconstruction a scab which is interesting as it is accurate in how a city heals after being destroyed. Still, I don't know why we have to use the most dramatic words possible in architecture #architecturalhistory

[Gage Buchmeier @buchmeier_gage]

I thought the comments of Woods on cities and how hierarchies have come and gone all while trying to change them. Maybe this is advice on how we should influence the city without trying to force it to change #architecturalhistory

[Gage Buchmeier @buchmeier_gage]

Johnson and Wigley refer to the contamination of form as a becoming a nightmare. Maybe we should look more into this #architecturalhistory

[Gage Buchmeier @buchmeier_gage]

"This consonant geometric structure becomes the physical structure of the building: its formal plurality is seen as guaranteeing structural stability." - Johnson and Wigley #architecturalhistory

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"This shift in balance has produced a situation whereby, for the past fifty years, architects have understood design as the product of some oversimplified form-follows-function formula." - Eisenmann #architecturalhistory

[Gage Buchmeier @buchmeier_gage]

"Abstraction, atonality, and atemporality, however, are merely stylistic manifestations of modernism, not its essential nature." - Eisenmann

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@AshleighTotten This makes sense as everything designed nowadays is completely different

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@WojcikPaige Too bad we can't do this. It seems like nothing is ever good enough sometimes