Samuel Mockbee - Johnny Cash (?)

Robert Venturi + Denise Scott Brown - Simon and Garfunkle

yup -- good one. embarrassed I didn't think of it.

FLW is def. Elvis by the way

mvrdv = fleetwood mac

actually,

mvrdv = abba

I think Zumthor is closer to My Bloody Valentine. Both are awesome, secretive, timeless and obsessively detailed... however they work at a glacial pace.

oh and, IMO, Robert Venturi + Denise Scott Brown = Hall + Oates

vsb=10cc

peter zumthor = tortoise? i'm trying to wrap my head around that. i think peter zumthor = +/- gordon lightfoot. he's definitely a folk rocker, but a good one.

i don't think mies is the stones. maybe the stone's sound engineer. haven't we discussed this? who is bob dylan?

zumthor = lenord cohen???

thom mayne = dylan??? You really dont understand what either is ever saying

how about foa = boards of canada? i might be giving foa too much credit.

neil danari = neil diamond

autechre=?

show me that list...

I'm still waiting for the Beastie Boys to get cited --
(probably no architect is quite THAT cool though...)

yeah i think you are Ja... i think you need to find someone a bit more sublime... perhaps Mendes da Rocha... a clear cut structure and a sense of nostalgia.. which reveals more layers the more you experience it (woah)?

on the elctronic-ish path....
Neil Danari - Prefuse 73 (maybe)
Xefirotarch - Autechre
and for some reason - Jean Nouvel - Portishead

mies = eno (post-glam)

yep.

gehry = the boss. keeps pumpin' out the hits even if they all sorta sound the same.

and to say that xefirotarch = autechre would imply that xefirotarch was at one point awesome and then decended into wankery (as opposed to always being wanky)

true. i was definitely thinking of post tri-repetae (possible post-lp5) autechre... in that case maybe they are more akin to oma?

arena rock architects

rem=styx
zaha=kiss
gehry=journey
morphosis=kansas
eisenman=head east
liebskind=reo speedwagon
herzog de maroon=the moody blues
zumthor= blue oyster cult

zumthor= blue oyster cult

now that makes a lot of sense to me.

but who is BOSTON?

for some reason i always thought aldo rossi was duran duran.. literally

boston > technically skilled, bombastic, predictable = richard rogers.

eisenman-steve reich

Who's the musical equivlent of Carlos Scarpa? I'm thinking underground indie rock from the 60's or 70's that has been hugely influential but largely esoteric but i don't know enough about the scene to say.

louis kahn - NWA




admit it!

db..............

I'm still waiting for the PINK FLOYD to get cited --
(probably no architect is quite THAT cool though...)


wait actually............i thought about it.......and i think
ALL STARCHITECTS COMBINED would be PINK FLOYD


;) ;) ;) ;)




i heart PF

i stand by my comment on the one-hit-wonder thread.

bucky fuller = frank zappa.

no way you can put bucky with velvet underground. no knock at all on VU, but you need to go with someone who resembles BF's artful freak-a-zoid, futuristic techincal prowess and that weird-o is FZ in spades.

Mighty-

True. However, I think fuller resembles VU in the "Not many people bought their records, but everyone who did started a band" sense. Fuller is, essentially, the father of the whole far-out mega-structure current within architecture. Without him, we wouldn't have archigram/archizoon/constant/etc and their contemporary offspring (OMA, MVRDV, Zaha, the X-Seed 4000, FOA, et al).

thats my $.02

-andrew

sure i agree with the impact the VU had on their genre...but not the TECHNICAL PROWESS that fuller and his disciples all had as their strengths.

VU made it easy for anybody to start a band,,,without necessarily being good. the ramones were similar in that regard too.

if you think about it...between zappa and the mothers, they had a pretty hefty contribution to contemporary music. from sixties psychedelia to free-jazz to driving guitar rock to intensely structured orchestrated cacaphony.

the VU had heroin-chic folk/grunge rock sure...but i see what you mean about how they encouraged a generation of kids to just go out and make noise...

Bernard Tschumi = Pink Floyd

??...........hmmmmmm still not sure.

it's more of a combination of a few.

(im talking to myself) yikes.

i need out of here.

this thread makes me wanna smoke a j and eat a bag of dorritos.

vu was a garage band that read books and had one guy who could play. hejduk maybe.

Pink Floyd = Pink Floyd.

Two of the gentlemen met in arch school.

yep, garpike beat me to it.

roger waters and (i think) nick mason.

You're right cris, Mason was the other guy

Boston = renzo piano

hejduk = arthur russel?

Apu

I would say that Scarpa could be the Pixies. People really didnt realize how influential either were at the time...

all of the detail oriented firms (TWBTA comes to mind) could be Nirvana. Basically a reinterpretation of the Pixies / Scarpa

pink floyd = dick busch

Michael Graves = __________

Robert A.M. Stern = __________

michael graves=puff daddy?

michael graves = gary glitter. definitely.

michael graves = KISS

queen=gaudi

michael graves = norah jones

Was breifly a small time piano chick with a half hipster / half hippie fan base. now is someone your parents buy at target, which is disappointing, but is still sexy enough that when she flashes enough skin you kinda forget about all that.

oh, and paolo soleri = phish.