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As from what we know to date, arts and culture are two of the basic elements that sets humans apart from other species, because it is a product of communications and both art and culture elevate human-kind and our quality-of-lives - where not all other forms of communication do. Regarding Southern Nevada, what are architects doing to incorporate art and cultural enhancement as expressions in their work, and where are we as a community in our ability to live daily experiencing art and cultural enhancement through architecture?
I had to google “charrette” to get oriented. I’ll toss a couple of ideas into the “cart” which is to be presented, eventually, to our governor. No comment on that. As an old woman who has lived in the Las Vegas valley since 1955, I am aware that few, if any, designers of tract homes consider the house plan with respect to the path of the sun during the day. For ideas, we might look to the area of the world where we are using our national treasure to create destruction and to nurture generations of enemies: the Middle East, “the cradle of civilization”. Quite frankly, though, I’m not inspired to go into detail, remembering the ugly example of solar architecture built south of Las Vegas more than 30 years ago when there was a brief pretense at concern for energy conservation. Instead, please let me leave you the title of one of my favorite books on the subject: “Natural Energy and Vernacular Architecture, Principles and Examples with Reference to Hot Arid Climates” by Hassan Fathy, U. of Chicago Press, 1986
I think we underestimate some of the design that's already in our suburbs that is artistic and uplifting . . . think of our wonderful libraries, even the firestation on the far west of Sahara could count as part of the "cultural" fabric of the community
I would like to thank all of the members of the team for having the gumption to remain a critical voice on all of the "questions" at hand... Well Las Vegas you get what you ask for... to all who are wondering just what we can look forward to, in harmonious proximity to the Frank Gehry pileup and those icons of desert(ed) architecture, the World Market Center...
http://www.dmsas.com/Our_Portfolio/Project.aspx?listing=type&itemId=1&pId=54
well at least it will be easy to build a strip mall next to!
response to the link provided by 'the savage':
whoa! Whoever said the performing arts center would look like a building that would last a couple hundred years was almost right...I think he meant that it looked like it was a couple hundred years old. Architecture's peculiar relationship with (dis)honesty in the case of Schwartz' aesthetics may be just what Las Vegas wants, although not what it needs.
Instead of trying to transplant all of these 'cultural' characteristics from (fill in the blank ________ we heard NYC, LA, Tuscan, Houston, Phoenix, blah), I choose to embrace the unique culture of Las Vegas for all of its potential. The city needs to rethink the performing arts center and 'arts & culture'.
Las Vegas is in a desert... a cultural desert... culture is the expression of a mature society... Las Vegas is juvenile at best... the epitomie of noveau riche garishness... "I'll show you my Gehry, if you show me yours"... "Where did you put the Legoretta?" "By the Predock!" "The real one or the fake one?"... Las Vegas must have the largest art if you count the 20 story banners draped over hotel facades... What if that scale "art" was combined with the emgering DSC (dye solar cell) technology that allows thin cost effective translucent multicolored photovoltaic energy
generating skins to cover the entire hotel facade... it generates energy no matter which direction if faces...
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