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Friday, January 18. 2008

Kimball on trendy and ephemeral architecture

City Journal has a fresh new look and format.

In it, Architecture's Rogues Gallery by Kimball, who rips the narcissism of the famous architects of today. A quote:

Philip Johnson. Robert Venturi. Hassan Fathy. Peter Eisenman. Charles Jencks. Bernard Tschumi. Rem Koolhaus. Daniel Liebeskind. Norman Foster. Frank Gehry. Sykes has rounded up a rogues’ gallery of brittle egotism in which contempt for the traditional canons of architecture is exceeded only by contempt for the public. “The only important task,” we read in one typical expostulation, “is the vigilant corruption of the chain of causality that begins with ‘client’ and ends in ‘building.’” In other words, please pay for this building, but don’t bother me with any demands about how it looks or functions.

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Hawaiian Mango Bread

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups flour
 2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. cinnamon
 3/4 cup cooking oil
1/2 tsp. salt
 1 1/4 cups sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
 3 eggs
2 cups diced mangos
 1/4 cup walnuts
* 1/2 cup coconut, shredded

PREPARATION:
Sift flour, salt, soda,and cinnamon together. Make a well in dry ingredients and add eggs, oil, vanilla, sugar, nuts, coconut and mangoes; mix well, put into 2 greased 8 x 4 x2 loaf pans. Let stand 20 minutes before baking at 350 degrees f for one hour.
#1 Samantha on 2008-01-18 13:28 (Reply)
Gwynnie was so undone at the vaporous nexus among City Journal, architecture and Hawaiian Mango Bread, that she almost forgot that she was going to repeat the old observation that every building Philip Johnson designed was a bitter joke on the client....
#2 Gwynnie on 2008-01-18 17:38 (Reply)
Gwynnie,

I apologize for throwing you off your topic with the recipe. I simply felt if I didn't add a post to the thread it would languish for want of response, given it's limited interest. Do try the recipe as it is heavenly.
#2.1 Samatha on 2008-01-19 13:42 (Reply)

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