Culture, Crowding and the pleasure of Complexity; A schizophrenic presentation
Lecture by Gerard Hadders on the pleasure of seeing complexity in urban space
Lecture by Gerard Hadders on the pleasure of seeing complexity in urban space
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Conception: The <strong>pleasure</strong> <strong>of</strong> complexity<br />
Was Adolf Loos a criminal? According to <strong>the</strong> art-historian<br />
Gombrich he was merely preaching an new Anglo-<br />
Saxon style idiom to <strong>the</strong> ornament-obsessed natives <strong>of</strong><br />
Austria. And as Robert Venturi remarks in his ‘Learning<br />
from Las vegas’:<br />
“...Less may have been more, but <strong>the</strong> I-section on <strong>the</strong><br />
Mies van de Rohe’s fire resistant columns, is as complexly<br />
ornamental as <strong>the</strong> applied pilaster on <strong>the</strong> renaissance<br />
pier (...) modern ornament has seldom been symbolic<br />
<strong>of</strong> anything non-architectural since <strong>the</strong> Bauhaus<br />
vanquished Art Deco <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> decorative arts...”
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