 Henry Urbach Gets to SFMOMA Too Late Tuesday, May 16, 2006
As we wait, with the world, on tenterhooks for the non-announcement of the non-news that NYC gallerist and bon vivant Henry Urbach is taking over the architectural curation at San Francisco's creatively named MoMA, we see, too, that he is a day late and a dollar short. The outgoing regime has already picked a winner for the rooftop garden competition, and it's an uninspiring thing, redolent, in its provincial way, of Philip Johnson's classic garden at the real MoMA. Maybe it's irony. Like you, sometimes we miss it. But we're sure Henry would have wanted something much cooler. · SFMOMA Picks Firm to Design Roof Garden [SF Chronicle] Reader Comments (6 extant) 1. Isn't Johnson's Glass House just a provincial take on Mies's Farnsworth House? And is Johnson's garden at MoMA really all that great? What is the garden trying to do? By architecture is a pack of lies at May 17, 2006 1:44 AM2. the garden at moma sucks. that's why the modernist movement is dead, D-E-A-D. By toaster at May 17, 2006 9:17 AM3. yeah this reproduction mid-century-modernism nostalgia is getting really old. its time to put the beauty back in art. By Herbert Muschamp at May 17, 2006 11:35 AM4. I vote for a return to post-modernism, plastic doric columns anyone??? By Philip Johnson at May 17, 2006 1:56 PM5. Gutter, honey, why are you even devoting space on these pages to the provinical, self-important architecture of SF? Tectonic fetishists, trust fund dilletantes, and multi-disciplinary 'design consultants' do not an architecture culture make. Bay Area architects have squandered their civic and natural infrastructure for at least a century, so the insipid rooftop design of SF MOMA comes as no suprise. By sf is stupid at May 17, 2006 2:15 PM6. Ditto. By The Guttersniper at May 17, 2006 6:28 PMAll set here? Continue enjoying The Gutter... « Breaking: TomKat Good For Architecture | Home | Michael Arad 0, Poet Laureate 1 » Back to top |
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