A Conversation With Dan Solomon And Andr

The Charleston Council of 2002 featured an open discussion on the issue of style and building.

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March 30, 2003, 7:00 AM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen


"I joined with colleagues 10 years ago because the limits of my architectural practice did not address the set of rooms and landscapes and experiences that I moved through, getting here. And to be circumscribed in this beautiful room and concerned about its relevance or potential relevance to that world, seems a very, very circumscribed and self-circumscribing view for us new urbanists who banded together to deal with the journey -- not with the destination. I'm really interested in that journey, and only to the degree that this room and the traditions it represents, serves what that journey has been, is this room interesting. Otherwise, it's uninteresting and irrelevant to a much larger set of concerns, which, I think, have liberated me, personally, from a very circumscribed architectural practice to one that is really grappling with something much larger."

Thanks to Laurence Aurbach

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