Architecht

[cdcox]

Who's the best?

[Third Eye]

Originally Posted by TinyEvel

Is this the Zig-Zag Corporate offices?

[xiandude]

Only 3 options? Wright was an ass; Gehry is a one-trick pony (design something out of plastic, melt it in a oven, and you have a passable Gehry design); Pei is one of the best. You should also include Michael Graves, Phillip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Cesar Pelli,Louis SullivanEero Saarinen, and a few others.

Also, Kansas City is the Mecca of sports architecture. HOK Sport, HNTB, Ellerbe Becket, 360, and a few other spin-off firms are all located there. It all started when Kivett Meyers Architects teamed with Deaton out of Denver to design the Truman Sports Complex. HNTB bought KV, and HOK and Ellerbe were spin-offs from HNTB. 360 spun off from HOK; and Crawford spun off from Ellerbe. There are a bunch of other smaller players in the market as well.

[Rain Man]

You should post pictures of their masterworks and have people vote on the work itself, and then educate us about who the designers were.

Was that a cloaked enough way of saying that I don't know anything about famous architects?

I will say, though, that the most striking structure in America is the Lincoln Memorial. In terms of communicating exactly what should have been communicated, it couldn't have been done any better.

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

You should post pictures of their masterworks and have people vote on the work itself, and then educate us about who the designers were.

Was that a cloaked enough way of saying that I don't know anything about famous architects?

I will say, though, that the most striking structure in America is the Lincoln Memorial. In terms of communicating exactly what should have been communicated, it couldn't have been done any better.

That Lincon was too big to use his swimming pool so he just sat there and stared at it?

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by cdcox

That Lincon was too big to use his swimming pool so he just sat there and stared at it?

He was the lifeguard of our democracy.

[cdcox]

Originally Posted by xiandude

Only 3 options? Wright was an ass; Gehry is a one-trick pony (design something out of plastic, melt it in a oven, and you have a passable Gehry design); Pei is one of the best. You should also include Michael Graves, Phillip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Cesar Pelli,Louis SullivanEero Saarinen, and a few others.

Also, Kansas City is the Mecca of sports architecture. HOK Sport, HNTB, Ellerbe Becket, 360, and a few other spin-off firms are all located there. It all started when Kivett Meyers Architects teamed with Deaton out of Denver to design the Truman Sports Complex. HNTB bought KV, and HOK and Ellerbe were spin-offs from HNTB. 360 spun off from HOK; and Crawford spun off from Ellerbe. There are a bunch of other smaller players in the market as well.

Basically I was thinking how great IM Pei was and all the iconic buildings he had done but how most people favored FLW. So I googled "greatest architects" or something like that and the Gehry guy kept coming up. Then I decided to make a poll to see if people would give reasons why they like FLW. I bet if he didn't have a middle name, peole wouldn't have thought he was so great. So most of the guys you mentioned I had never heard of. Maybe I wasn't the most qualified person to make the poll, but to my knowledge, no one in the 7.5 year history of ChiefsPlanet had made an architect poll before.