Comments on: Critics http://htcexperiments.org/2009/10/29/critics/ Experimental practices in architectural history, theory, and criticism -- organized by David Gissen Mon, 07 Nov 2011 12:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dlgissen http://htcexperiments.org/2009/10/29/critics/#comment-245 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:48:35 +0000 http://htcexperiments.org/?p=1573#comment-245 Thanks for visiting (and with a comment, no less!). I’m afraid that the “Defense” essay was my first “Gage”, so I don’t know his thoughts, such as they are. I think the threat of an essay like Geographic Turns, is that one cannot read the histories and then argue that geographical thought “has nothing to do with architecture.” I can agree that turning to history to explain the present has its problems; but I don’t understand the counter-move: to turn to history as a type of hand sanitizer! I think that’s the attempt in his essay; to eradicate actual history in the name of history.

Anyway, I wish I had known about your own geographical/architectural historical explanations earlier; I would have included them in the AD or mentioned them in the Log piece.

]]> By: Enrique Ramirez http://htcexperiments.org/2009/10/29/critics/#comment-244 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:55:19 +0000 http://htcexperiments.org/?p=1573#comment-244 Gage’s article is one of those “why does architecture have to be so hard” essays that I find grating. In fact, I find it very hard to take anything he says seriously.

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