Painterly Comics

Great lecture by Jeff Kipnis last night titled "Why Bother?" - a hilarious attack on rival-critic Robert Somol and their differing interests in graphic novels as influence and inspiration on architecture.

A few of my more favorite quotes and things to think about from the evening:

"critics, as they grow older, do one of two things. They either become bitter, like Frampton, or insane in the utter ridiculous conjectures on architecture. I'm not bitter, so I guess I'm insane."

"yellow is the key to cartoon architecture"

"it is absolutely essential to get with people who share your interest in doing positive misbehavior"

"[Gehry's "giant turd" tower] is happy in a sort of anal period sense..."

"our job as teachers it to take works of genius, turn them into pedagogy so students regurgitate it mediocrit-ally... in hopes that it inspires new works of genius"

"if you do theoretical work, it should make you go back and rethink your old work"