Comments on: Ordos villa by Estudio Barozzi Veiga

By: Frederique

Frederique — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:57:33 +0000

I actually like this project. Yes, it looks like the Philharmonie in Hambrurg, but it is definately nog stolen. Atleast net more the any part of modernism to Le Corbusier. It is part of a new move in Architecture, wich started only just about 2 years ago, to move back to the arches en spheres of the old days, and to re-enterprit them in a new fashion. Atelier Bow How has also made a very interesting move for Ordos. Yes, it is daring, somethimes strange, but not formalism. It’s reaching back to achive the new. Some say it is more Human. “Minimalism is Dead” wrote one of the top critics ownly last year. But these architects feel that “maximalism” is the trap of the other extreme. My collegues and i feel that this can be an interesting anser.

By: CBC

CBC — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:10:38 +0000

more information abot this house please. Its for a university proyect. thanks.

By: kemorrr

kemorrr — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:30:20 +0000

You are saying that’s a shriken version of HdeM’s Hamburg building? So before that please take Berlin concert hall by Scharoun and compare the two, adding some bits of the interview given by Herzog in the first El Croquis.

By: gaque

gaque — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:54:31 +0000

MADA s.p.a.m.’s house with a similar roof is another story. It’s really not even that similiar. Look at the Elbe Philharmonie…
http://www.archidose.org/Blog/hamburg1.jpg

Here, the architect has made the formal gesture for a symbolic purpose (“solidification of nomadic tent”).

I understand that architects are part of the globalized styles and/or approaches–MADA s.p.a.m., a Chinese firm, included. What I criticize is not the lack of pure regionalism, but the abundance of superficial attempts to look like a local.

Also, yes, seasonal fruit is a very good idea.

By: ldl1

ldl1 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:09:45 +0000

I would disagree that this is a european house with forced, post-empire fascinations with the desert. Would you be so upset about the same roof profile from a local (albeit Han Chinese) architect?

See the ‘well hall’ house, by MADA s.p.a.m. in the following link.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/read.php?CATEGORY_PK=&TOPIC_PK=2226

There’s been a quickness with judgments against foreign practice. With international commerce and trade, I suspect that the local has been supplanted more and more with the global. Cultures have continually been trading ideas and techniques; this has become nearly instantaneous with not only communications but also supply. One may as well stop buying bananas in the winter – if you’ll stretch the idea to available produce – or build with steel from Korea.
The only bastion for the purity of the regional are in trades that have no immediate access to the global market, and are oblivious to things outside their surroundings. Like aboriginal songlines, these are the ones that can uphold a tradition through hermetics and local intensities.