Geezers Need Excitement
Thursday, 11 September 2008
…common sense, simple common sense.
Our boy Witold at Slate explains why we architects seem to keep on keepin’ on,
“Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was 62 when he started designing the Lake Shore Drive apartments, which became the model for all subsequent steel-and-glass towers; Le Corbusier was 63 when he built the marvelous chapel at Ronchamp, setting the architectural world on its ear; Louis Kahn was 64 when the Salk Institute was built; and Frank Gehry was 68 when he produced the Bilbao Guggenheim. So once you finally get really good at it, why stop?”
But he forgets to mention the current Architectural Methuselah, Oscar Niemeyer.
