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 OMA O.D. From A. Josephson, Santa Monica, California: As a longtime reader of Metropolis, I have enjoyed and appreciated the high level of your editorial content in all three areas of your concentration (architecture, culture, and design). However, I have found 2001 to be a year in which you appear editorially paralyzed, convinced that Metropolis cannot be published each month without at least one piece promoting and highlighting Rem Koolhaas and OMA. Even though I work neither as an architect or designer, as a cultural critic and observer I find your obsession with the OMA/Koolhaas gang questionable from an editorial point of view. It's also regrettable for the dozens of other hardworking innovative and cutting-edge architects and designers whose work and projects go unpublicized as a result. Surely there are other people doing other projects than those within the Koolhaas/OMA universe. I find it a shame that after twenty years of excellence in reportage and criticism you choose to turn Metropolis into a monthly edition of the "OMA Newsletter." Green Design, Anyone? From Aaron Reed, via e-mail (aaronandjuliet@home.com): I have been overjoyed at your recent articles on green design. I am a furniture design student in Savannah, Georgia, and desire very much to be working in a "green" environment. My problem is that whenever I do materials research I seem to get stonewalled by large search engines. Green design and environmentalism are bad words in a commercial search query. I can find articles on environmentalism, but not necessarily on how to fabricate materials environmentally. I understand materials, processes, and principles of green fabrication, but have a bad time finding suppliers. Does anybody out there publish a list of green suppliers so we can support their businesses and help to produce a green marketplace? Go for the Gold! From Kem Hinton, FAIA, Nashville, Tennessee: I was quite pleased to see your October cover with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. The dynamic duo! And the insightful article ("Born to be Bad," p. 81) by Barbara Flanagan and fun photos by Chris Buck were excellent. In the past few years, I've been working with many others to encourage the AIA Gold Medal committee to give Bob and Denise "the big prize." But as you know the current rules prohibit a joint award. Perhaps your article and the influence of others will guide the AIA to modify its rules or, if nothing else, make an exception for this talented pair and present them with the gold. They certainly deserve it. Metropolis welcomes letters to the editor. They can be sent to Dialogue, Metropolis, 61 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010 or e-mailed to edit@metropolismag.com or talk2us@metropolismag.com. All letters are subject to editing. |
