Architect Dr. Sally Mackereth joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about architecture. Is Brutalist architecture really ugly? Is there a theoretical limit of how tall a building can be on Earth? Does the climate of a city affect how architecture is built? Answers to these questions and many more await on Architecture Support.
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#Architecture #BurjKhalifa #Brutalism
00:00 – Architecture Support
00:12 – Burj Khalifa, raise the roof
01:03 – The Walkie Scorchie
01:59 – No cutting corners here
03:04 – Let’s be brutally honest…
04:41 – The climate keeps architects on their toes
05:39 – If it ain’t broke, redesign it
06:43 – Honey, I shrunk the building
08:16 – “There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?”
09:08 – Architect vs. Architectural Designer
09:51 – Draft mode is always on
10:46 – Frank Lloyd Wright, the American GOAT
11:52 – I talk and I draw things…
13:04 – Rome wasn’t built in a day, but your house was
14:16 – Blueprints need a strong foundation
15:00 – Pompidou or Pompidon’t?
15:53 – Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
16:34 – “Architect’s dream is an engineer’s worst nightmare”
17:15 – Louvre: the pyramid polarization
17:53 – An architect’s laboratory
_Sculpture credit: Sphere et cubes, 2014 by Karen Ctorza._
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My dream is to live in the Barbican when I’m old and go to the theatre in my pyjamas
1:39 This seems like exactly the kind of thing an architect should and needs to be able to predict. 🫨🧐
06:40 any Zoo negatively affects animals. Zoos where living animals live should not exist today.
I can barely hear anything over the sound of that blurred out award in the background. What is it?!?! What is it?!?!?!?!
3:10 “Brutalism is ugly”…. go see the Washington DC METRO system, specifically METRO CENTER station and see if you agree.
Brutalism is beautiful in it’s own way. Yes, there are some that are terrible, just like any other designs, but it has it’s own beauty.
The late Dame Zaha Hadid is my favorite architect ever. I’m blown away by her creativity. It’s on my bucket list to visit each of her buildings. My aunt lives in her apt bldg in Manhattan!
She reminds me of a Professor at Hogwarts (not because of the cliche itself, or the British accent, but she could teach Room of Requirement Architecture at Hogwarts)