http://dcmetrocentric.com/2009/09/24/granite-frieze-at-cardoza-high/ New Buildings, Construction, Destruction, Planning, Real Estate, and Gossip as it happens in the Nation's Capital Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:22:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://dcmetrocentric.com/2009/09/24/granite-frieze-at-cardoza-high/#comment-7162 Paul Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:58:07 +0000 http://dcmetrocentric.com/2009/09/24/granite-frieze-at-cardoza-high/#comment-7162 Um, it's Cardoz-O...not Cardoz-A Um, it’s Cardoz-O…not Cardoz-A

]]> http://dcmetrocentric.com/2009/09/24/granite-frieze-at-cardoza-high/#comment-7156 Thayer-D Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:21:44 +0000 http://dcmetrocentric.com/2009/09/24/granite-frieze-at-cardoza-high/#comment-7156 Nice post. Unfortunatley, "communicating" with the public is frowned upon by architects because it puts them at the laymans level (in their view) and that is not what they are taught in schools. Clearly there are exceptions to this, but by and large the faux mysticism of the medieval monks has been replaced by the faux mysticism of academia. Ironic that it was academia that cast a light into the dark corners of the church to only find the darkness a convenient cover for incompetence. It's no wonder the architectural world went gaga for Venturi when he spoke about the possibilities to communicate with a building's form and decorations. Now if more architects could be less ironic, all pedestrians would be the richer for it. Nice post. Unfortunatley, “communicating” with the public is frowned upon by architects because it puts them at the laymans level (in their view) and that is not what they are taught in schools. Clearly there are exceptions to this, but by and large the faux mysticism of the medieval monks has been replaced by the faux mysticism of academia. Ironic that it was academia that cast a light into the dark corners of the church to only find the darkness a convenient cover for incompetence. It’s no wonder the architectural world went gaga for Venturi when he spoke about the possibilities to communicate with a building’s form and decorations. Now if more architects could be less ironic, all pedestrians would be the richer for it.

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