shajay bhooshan

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shajay bhooshan

shajay bhooshan

@wework4her

aspiring polymath. work@zaha hadid architects CODE, teach@AA design research lab (AADRL) learn @ ETHZ https://t.co/7mnoiaORLT

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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@UrbanCourtyard New to NA and a fan of the interaction and activity-dense, walkable Euro city. but, wright’s Broadacre model’s has merits: it absorbs massive population influxes and offers independence from centrally controlled infrastructure, and is more easy to densify.
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Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist
Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist@UrbanCourtyard·
Don’t misread this. It doesn’t show a preference for sprawl, but a preference for space. The survey forces a tradeoff between Bigger home/far away or smaller home/walkable So people choose space. But that doesn’t mean they want long drive, isolation, car dependence It means that’s the only way the current system delivers family-sized housing. We’ve never actually offered the real alternative, which is family-scale homes + walkable neighborhoods. We should offer that and survey people to find out how they like space AND amenities/ convenience
Pew Research Center@pewresearch

Majority of Americans prefer spread-out communities with big houses. More: pewresearch.org/short-reads/20…

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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@tomhfh @michalrozworski It is also true though that older houses are built better than the new builds. So better builds is a contributing factor to price.
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Tom Harwood
Tom Harwood@tomhfh·
@michalrozworski Why then is victorian housing more expensive than similar sized newbuilds in the same location? Why have homes in Poundbury appreciated far more than similar sized settlements nearby? People prefer pretty architecture. That's it.
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Michal Rozworski
Michal Rozworski@michalrozworski·
So much of the love for the remnants of the Victorian era in the UK is thinly disguised longing for the height of empire by people who haven't acknowledged the country's decline and it's true place in the world. Most Victorian housing is just shitty, drafty suburban sprawl.
Tom Harwood@tomhfh

Fixed it.

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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@tomhfh @michalrozworski Counter factual : a 100sq.m Barbican flat *also* sells for a million. Price seems more sensitive to location, and amenities which are a function of density.
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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@bswud Ok, on same page. Re: shortage downstream of "ugly" - the nuance is that ugliness comes from cultural desensitisation and deskilled labor. Potemkin villages (even the old looking) don’t need craft. People reject shoddy buildings, not new ones. Restore craft to restore pride.
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Ben Southwood
Ben Southwood@bswud·
@wework4her I understand the housing theory of everything as saying that there are a whole bunch of other problems due to a shortage of housing. Here, I am saying that one reason that we have a shortage of housing is because everyone expects new buildings will be ugly so they don’t want them
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Ben Southwood
Ben Southwood@bswud·
Before the Second World War, people around the world trusted that development would make places better, by and large. That trust was lost by the 1970s, and since then housing shortages have emerged in most Western countries.
Nicholas Boys Smith@boys_nicholas

London is always being lost and re-found. Every generation harms the city that came before. The Edwardians replaced much of central London with cliffs of classically ornate Portland stone. Few complained. Shock, for example, was muted when this turned into...

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Free Cities Foundation
Free Cities Foundation@freecitiesfound·
Architecture is downstream from law. If your buildings are ugly, inert, overpriced, and impossible to build, the problem is not just aesthetic. It is political. This week on the Free Cities Podcast... @patrik_schu on why bad governance produces bad cities.
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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@CharlestonArchi No morality intended. My words attempt to articulate my reasoning for why I think we can re-apply Haussmann’s (and others) vision and inventiveness towards new architecture.
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi·
@wework4her Here you go bringing morality into the discussion again. "We SHOULDN'T..." "We MUST..."
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi·
This architect wants us to condemn as "dishonest" and "fake" - in other words, morally reprehensible - this fine building because stucco was applied by hand over brick columns. What modernism does to otherwise intelligent people.
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shajay bhooshan@wework4her

@CharlestonArchi @CenterPopulist No, you understand incorrectly. Plaster work, used in combination with masonry work as historically is cool. doing plaster to fake stone, not. Stone masonry is now increasingly revived : both in its historic design methods and robotic cutting technologies via the use of computer

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shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@CharlestonArchi Contemporary society is different. We shouldn't just replicate; we must extend. Take his grand vision, rule-based design & standardized construction, and add today's structural optimization & mass customization to re-apply his forward-thinking logic.
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi·
@wework4her So back to your original claim, why do you believe that buildings built in the styles of Haussmann's Paris are inappropriate for contemporary life?
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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@CharlestonArchi I agree. I am just stating the table stakes to be considered, and also clarifying that I am not against any mature style, nor disrespecting any craft or historic tradition.
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi·
@wework4her Which styles should be used to build in the 21c is THE debate!
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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@CharlestonArchi Ok. I support structurally elegant, well-made, well-functioning architecture regardless of which style they are in. All mature styles can produce such architecture. Which style should be used, to build in the 21c is different debate.
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi·
@wework4her What word you use depends on what you're trying to say. But whether something is well built or not has nothing to do with honesty. There are well-made long-lasting veneers, and well-made short-lived veneers, and poorly-made short-lived veneers. None are dishonest or wrong.
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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@CharlestonArchi Ok - what word should I use instead ? (I haven’t made any claims about the architecture I practise - for the purpose of this conversation I am not practicing architect, but a historically interested person with an interest in masonry, heavy timber construction, etc ).
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi·
@wework4her Ok well that's not what people mean when they use the word 'honest.' Being beautiful and/or useful and/or well-made, each to a greater or lesser extent, has nothing at all to do with honesty. Why, then, do you say some architecture is 'dishonest' and yours is 'honest'?
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi·
@wework4her Exactly, use of computers is a separate point altogether. So how do you derive 'use of computers for fabrication is honest' and 'thin veneers is dishonest'? A veneer may be long lasting or not, but what does honesty have to do with any of this?
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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@CharlestonArchi I didn’t say computers = honest. I said computers can aid in genuine revival by capturing and extending some of the tacit skill needed (in born design and construction) for “honest” architecture.
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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@CharlestonArchi Yes, Agreed. I find them “fake” for the same vitruvian reasons - they are not well made, resulting in much reduced functionality and therefore not having beauty. (Use of computers is a separate point altogether).
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi·
@wework4her Ok here's a point I think we agree on. I too am critical of thin veneers. But not because they're "fake" or "dishonest" or immoral, and not because I argue we should be using computers instead, but for the simple reason they violate Firmitas, 1 of the 3 architectural values.
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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@CharlestonArchi Ok. To clarify then: I am critical of the cheap, thin veneer copies of historic buildings (like this), not of well made historic architecture (like the original by Haussmann in Paris).
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi·
@wework4her I might get something you've said wrong but I don't argue in bad faith so you can stop repeating that. Either I've misunderstood you again or your theory is incoherent. I don't think it's that sophisticated, actually, and am leaning towards the latter.
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shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@CharlestonArchi I am not asking you to condemn anything. I am suggesting there is more enriching ways we can make continued use of historic traditions in stone masonry, plaster work etc . Also “morally reprehensible” are you words. I didn’t suggest anything like that x.com/wework4her/sta…
shajay bhooshan@wework4her

@CharlestonArchi @CenterPopulist Also: thestonemasonrycompany.co.uk More honest and exciting use of traditions skills or venerable craft as you call it

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shajay bhooshan
shajay bhooshan@wework4her·
@CharlestonArchi I don’t want you to condemn nor am I condemning fine hand craft. I think it is a disservice to the craft, invention, wisdom and heritage of fine historic architecture (like Haussmann) to support thin brick veneer, fake plaster veneer facades that are made to fake a historic look.
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi·
@wework4her Taking an argument to its logical conclusions is not bad faith, it's how you test an argument.
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Architecture@CharlestonArchi·
"Forward facing" ... "addresses the complexities of contemporary life" ... learn to spot these architects' euphemisms for modernism. There is just as much modern technology in Haussmann's Paris as in Dubai, and the architectural technology in Paris is superior to that of Dubai.
shajay bhooshan@wework4her

@CharlestonArchi @UrbanCourtyard @wrathofgnon A style that can absorb and systematise the vernacular wisdoms, but is technologically and culturally forward facing. A style that is able to address the complexities of contemporary life in cities.

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Bob Sacamano
Bob Sacamano@BobDSacamano·
@wework4her @CharlestonArchi If a building looks beautiful and is functional, I couldn't care less what construction techniques and materials were used. If we are purists about "honesty," beautiful things simply will not get built.
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