>>1303507why is this degenerate? It has a great circulation path that allows you to continuously walk around all book sections from the lobby to the top floor. The multi-height space at the west entrance is very impressive as well and connects the different levels to the lobby.
>>1303508>>1303512at first I used to think Gehry was degenerate but he is a victim of his success. Gehry has become a brand in architecture, that you can describe his architecture as a Gehry building. That leads to clients going to Gehry for a "Gehry" building rather than allowing him to do something he wants. Walt Disney Concert Hall is still one of the best buildings both in form and function though. The same applies to Zaha Hadid, Morphosis (to an extent but he does what he wants), and Coop Himmeblau. Jean Nouvel manages to escape this by having pretty much no signature style.
>>1303517One issue I can understand that critics have of BIG is that he tends to recycle concepts and have similar looking buildings. With that said, he represents what every young architect (myself included) wants to be, successful at a young age BUT still down to earth. I heard Thom Mayne lecture a week before hearing Bjarke Ingels and I was turned off by Mayne's arrogance and use of big terminology to explain a simple concept. Bjarke explains his work in easy language terms that anyone, both architects and non-architects can understand. His work analyses the surrounding context and responds to it, though I do wish he would be more meticulous about it rather than using the same finishes. His buildings end up as large scale diagrams.
