Comments on: Public Works: Architecture by Civil Servants by OMA at Venice Architecture Biennale 2012 http://www.dezeen.com/2012/08/28/public-works-architecture-by-civil-servants-by-oma-at-venice-architecture-biennale-2012/ architecture and design magazine Mon, 20 May 2013 14:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anatole http://www.dezeen.com/2012/08/28/public-works-architecture-by-civil-servants-by-oma-at-venice-architecture-biennale-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-1118329 Anatole Fri, 08 Mar 2013 09:36:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=237785#comment-1118329 I must disagree. Keynesianism wasn't obese - that's a myth that the neoliberals themselves propagated. Rather, corporate profits declined as secular crises of capitalism asserted themselves. Wages had to be cut, along with social benefits and expectations, and the welfare state was an easy target. The system these buildings represented and maintained represented an imperfect cradle to grave security that was only too big from the perspective of corporate profits. I must disagree. Keynesianism wasn’t obese – that’s a myth that the neoliberals themselves propagated. Rather, corporate profits declined as secular crises of capitalism asserted themselves. Wages had to be cut, along with social benefits and expectations, and the welfare state was an easy target. The system these buildings represented and maintained represented an imperfect cradle to grave security that was only too big from the perspective of corporate profits.

]]> By: kimnn http://www.dezeen.com/2012/08/28/public-works-architecture-by-civil-servants-by-oma-at-venice-architecture-biennale-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-982806 kimnn Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:28:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=237785#comment-982806 Very interesting, in a more historical and economical perspective these architects were building the 70s for an obese dying keynesian system. The omnipotent and powerfull European nanny states that believed in "Architecture or Revolution". Centralised plannified urbanism, or Brutalist urbanism, after the golden 50,60,70... that would end up in the two oil crisis... and the rise of neo-liberalism parallel to the rise of the Starchitects... from planified economy to scripted financial algorithms... from urban planner, new urbanism, to parametric urban PR. Very interesting, in a more historical and economical perspective these architects were building the 70s for an obese dying keynesian system. The omnipotent and powerfull European nanny states that believed in “Architecture or Revolution”.

Centralised plannified urbanism, or Brutalist urbanism, after the golden 50,60,70… that would end up in the two oil crisis… and the rise of neo-liberalism parallel to the rise of the Starchitects… from planified economy to scripted financial algorithms… from urban planner, new urbanism, to parametric urban PR.

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