My name is Joe Berardi. I am 27 years old and a graduate of the undergraduate architecture program at The Ohio State University. I currently live in Bexley Ohio, a small suburb east of Columbus. I live there with my fiancee, Missy, and three cats. A lot of our time has recently been spent remodeling our kitchen (33 weeks worth of work and injuries), which is now 99.9% complete.
Since graduating, I worked in a small firm that did various types of design work from residential projects to mixed use projects. For the past two years, I work in a commercial office, working on various types of projects from store design to a synagogue.
My interest in the program is that it allows me the opportunity to continue my education as well as continuing to work.
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- We currently live in a 1927 Craftsman house. Recently completed a total kitchen remodel, a complete gut to the studs and build out with our own two hands. Our family consists of three cats: Shrimpy, Cocktail and Diesel. My fiancee, Missy, also graduated in architecture from Ohio State. She recently passed the LEED AP exam and has several active green building projects through her firm, WD Partners. An interesting quote from Renzo Piano during an interview with Archinect: "I think it important to note the difference between style and coherence. If you're talking coherence, I love it. If you're talking about style, then I start to wonder."
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Welcome, Joe.
I like the Piano quote about style. Last semester, one of my students was doing a research paper on William Wurster, and she developed what I think is an ingenious formulation: style = principles - context. In other words, if you can take the same moves and put them in a new city or fill them with a different program, then they're just fashion. And nothing looks as out-of-date as last year's styles.
I think that is a great way to sum things up. I think with Pianos work there is a sense of coherence, not exactly in the actual appearence, but the intent and the intangibles, vs. someone like Frank Gehry and the "Bilbao Effect." It seems that a large majority of his major commissions in some shape or form is in the same "Style" as the Guggenheim.
What an interesting thought!
When I would think cookie cutter, my mind immediately flies to the suburbs, or more increasingly, Small Town USA where great Mom & Pop stores are driven away in favor of the local WalMart or McDonalds. But to think of Frank Gehry as cookie cutter - now THAT is thought provoking. There is no sarcasm in that statement!
I believe Gehry is a love-him-or-hate-him kind of guy, and I am much more firmly planted towards that hate end for the very reason that he does seem to have a "style" that is very obvious. And, to bring your other post into this one - I think that Gehry is probably the most famous architect to be hired as an afterthought. He is brought onto a project because people want that form for their building, no matter the program requirements.
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