Architect Marc Kushner explains why architecture tends to swing drastically between traditional and experimental styles — and why the future of building design is going to be different.
Part of the latest TED Radio Hour on the power of design in our lives. The whole podcast is worth a listen but the interview with architect, Marc Kushner, is quite compelling:
“We are always in architecture. And if we’re not in architecture we’re surrounded by architecture. So, think about anything else that has that much presence in your life that you don’t respond to emotional. You spend as much time around buildings and you do around loved ones.”
He goes on to say “I remember an office building, actually, and it looked like every other suburban office building except it was this really weird baby blue. It just struck me that someone went out on a limb here. It made me think that were possibilities that ordinarily you don’t see explored.”
But it is his points about how our relationship to architecture is changing and what that means for architecture that is really exciting. He expounds on the pendulum of architecture swinging back and forth and back and forth, between architects trying new things and giving the public what’s familiar, and how the internet and, more specifically, social media have essentially negated the pendulum...”The norm is experimentation now.”
