Robert A M Stern Interview: The Limestone Jesus
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- Опубліковано 3 лис 2014
- "Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga. I think it is much more exciting to enter into a dialogue with the past" says the acclaimed American architect Robert A.M. Stern in this video presenting 'The Limestone Jesus'-building, 15 Central Park West in New York.
"The city is made up of background buildings and foreground buildings", Stern says echoing observations from his teacher Paul Rudolph who said that "modern architects are great in making one off buildings that would stand by themselves and celebrate themselves, but they have not learned how to make background buildings". Stern calls 15 Central Park West "a gigantic articulated wall of structures not a series of twisting and turning isolated thing". The name 'Limestone Jesus' comes from the fact that the building is constructed with limestone bricks.
"We have lots of silly buildings being built, in my opinion. The buildings should not look like Lady Gaga", Stern states. The Limestone Jesus keeps such incredible prices for apartments, Stern is very happy about this, he says. "First of all I want my clients to be able to enjoy the success but for me the building was about an idea, not a real estate idea but an architectural idea or a couple of architectural ideas one of which was to fill out the wall of Central Park West. If you look at Central Park West from an apartment at the 5. Avenue, you will see that it is an amazing wall, if the Broadway Musicals want to show a New York backdrop they would depict in some form or another that wall".
Robert A.M. Stern (b.1939) is considered a representative of New Urbanism and is mentioned to be one of the first architects to use the term 'post modernism'.
"Almost every building that is new has a built-in history. We are architects that build on the shoulders of the past.
I think is is much more exciting to enter into a dialogue with the past and also to take things from the past and restudy them, their theme and variation. Architecture is made up of many languages in my view and if we have a modern language that is evolved but it doesn't mean that the other languages can't also continue to be spoken".
Robert A.M. Stern was interviewed by Jesper Bundgaard/ Out of Sync, in New York City in 2014.
Camera & edit: Per Henriksen, Out of Sync
Produced by Out of Sync & Christian Lund 2014.
Copyright by Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014.
Supported by Nordea-fonden - Фільми й анімація
Inspiring as always.
great architect.His books on NY architecture and real estate are just fabulous, I really recommend them.
ramsa is a legend his building designs need updating to the new woeld
Some of Indiana Limestone? Cheers!
I’m very new to appreciating architecture. Are there any other bad ass firms like Stern out there worth admiring?
Morris Adjmi Architects (NYC), Rob Mills Architects (Melbourne Au), BKSK Architects (NYC), Kavellaris Urban Design (Melbourne Au), Fender Katsaladis (Melbourne Au) --- my go to
Quinlan Terry UK, Duany Plater Zyberk FL, Pier Carlo Bontempi IT, Sánchez Godoy Guatemala, Moule Polyzoides
The whole family look alike
the thinks i would do to shack this guy's hand
Don’t know how mantel family can do box not buildings how many people you killed to do that
one thing people need to get a grip of is that, no matter what part of new york city your in, whether its brooklyn queens the bronx staten island or manhattan that is all of new york city it is not just manhattan ok five boros makes up new york city ok get it through your heads
What? You call Lady Gaga silly? Ok.
This building sucks. 53w 53rd is better
It does not suck, it's just not to your taste. Admire whatever building you like, it's not necessary to be so rude.
that building is pure trash. a pile of glass architectural garbage. Modernism and post- modernist architecture has failed, get this through your heads, nobody likes it.
53w 53rd -- another isolated shard which already looks passé.