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ARCHITECTURE VIEW; Vacation Checklist: Socks, Passport, Architecture: Review

Muschamp, Herbert

New York Times, 1994

New York, N.Y: New York Times Company

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  • Título:
    ARCHITECTURE VIEW; Vacation Checklist: Socks, Passport, Architecture: Review
  • Autor: Muschamp, Herbert
  • Assuntos: ARCHITECTURE ; Diller, Elizabeth ; MUSCHAMP, HERBERT ; Scofidio, Ricardo ; TRAVEL AND VACATIONS
  • É parte de: New York Times, 1994
  • Descrição: "Back to the Front," a new book edited and designed by the New York architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, sets out to explore the connections between war and tourism as "related forms of conquest." Densely theoretical, the book is not your usual summer reading. In fact, it throws a disconcertingly cold, clinical light on the pleasures of summer travel. But for armchair travelers looking for intellectual adventure, "Back to the Front" may be just the ticket. It's got luggage, postcards, beaches (or at least pictures of them) and a delightfully paranoid perspective that could turn even a stay-at-home's cell into a room with a view. The commercialization of history, the plague of urban sprawl: these are the main issues that have defined the debate. But Michael Eisner, Disney's chairman, recognized that something more was at stake when he wrote in a letter to this newspaper that the planned park has precipitated a "referendum on Disney." What's going on is not just a backlash against a mouse. It's the mounting sense of alarm about the danger Disney represents: the risk that a homogenized, mass-mediated consumerism is becoming the smiley face of a new world order. Yet in a sense, "Back to the Front" is a theme park itself, a portable Small, Small World ride that you can pack in a bag or tuck into a paperback. And to call this work architecture is perhaps not so fantastic. Think of those new Las Vegas hotels: thanks to the news media, these phantasmagorical casinos loom large on the cultural maps of people who wouldn't dream of setting foot inside them. Some now regard Las Vegas as a wave of the future, the ultimate architectural incarnation of a society that can't get off the roulette wheel. I'll put my money on Diller and Scofidio. This gifted team takes architecture back to the front of ideas.
  • Editor: New York, N.Y: New York Times Company
  • Idioma: Inglês
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