fake old new world

just listened to the kpcc (los angeles) zocalo podcast that featured uber architect thom mayne. like most discussions the interesting quotes start in the last five minutes (about 46:38). enjoy...

we are living in a time where the majority of people (maybe even some of you) prefer to live in fake french provincial or tudor or fake phony second rate spanish and it's like damn its the 21st century.

did you realize that modern architecture started 100 years ago?

what's the point, its a symbol what are you symbolizing? that the 19th's century was interesting? or the 18th or the 17th or whatever the fuck you think it is?

there isn't a whole lot of interest in forward progress here. there is a huge notion that we are somehow comfortable in living in this fake old new world that somehow has something to do with some idea of status, what it has to do with is that your dead already. you literally died. if your brain isn't operating if you aren't living in today, if you haven't got problems then why wake up?

if you talk to across the board to architects then the discussion centers around why aren't more people interested in the present and exploring what it means to be alive in the 21st century and how that effects living and how your environment is an extension of your creative potential...

what's so interesting about living in some dead architecture that didn't die for no reason?

on top of it its a copy of a bad fake, its layers of stuff that's even hard to perceive.