KunstlerCast #5: Starchitects
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How and why did Seattle build that hideous new
public library? asks one listener from that city. In this episode of KunstlerCast, James Howard Kunstler
tells us how cities get hoodwinked into a status fashion contest to
have a museum or library built by one of the celebrity architects of
the day. Rem Koolhass, Frank Gehry, Peter Eisenman and others are
deliberately designing these disastrous, anxiety-inducing mothership
UFOs in order to mystify people into thinking they're supernaturally
brilliant. And then we're stuck with these Gillette Blue Blade-clad fun
houses for decades.
