Joshua Prince Ramus on the Wyly Theatre at TEDx
Joshua Prince Ramus is one of the best architects I’ve meet, and also a very good speaker. I think most of you have already seen his presentation at TED back in 2006, where he presented the Seattle Central Library, a powerful talk on which he talked about the role of the architects in the process, as an editing/team approach rather than authorship. We interviewed Joshua back in 2008, where we first heard about his position regarding the separation of conception and execution on architecture, as architects became the “artists” leaving the execution to engineers, which can be seen on the first minutes of his talk at TEDx Dallas posted above, before explaining how the Wyly Theatre re interpreted the typical theatre programatic configuration.
I like the story about his silver hat, for decorative purposes only… same as architects (here’s a photo of us while visiting his office, reflected on the mentioned hat).
After our interview, we talked a lot about the role of the architect on the production of buildings, the importance of BIM and more… sadly we didn´t record that but I hope we can have a chance to talk to him again soon, and bring you more on that.
Fantastic!!
Excellent lecture. Ramus takes a strong position for architects and hopefully others can take note.
i found this is very inspiring! seems like nowadays architect is considered as an ‘artist’ rather than social engineer. Architects are no longer seen as intellectuals for public just simply because some of us did not have a slight idea what are we doing, why or even who we do it for. its sad really.
Loved his analogy of the prize helmet – a very interesting talk, especially for someone not in the architecture industry. More people outside the industry should watch this.
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9:06 PM Oct 19th
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