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| Where is the kitchen? |
The boom of American mass media in the post-war period yielded a
popular culture which was to influence the practice of architecture for
generations to come. Television, film, radio, and print media were all
synthesized with various aspects of “high” culture to produce an
aesthetic that would prove both undeniably decadent yet
satisfying,
witty but non-alienating. This gooey confection of comic strip
graphics, day-glo color palettes, pseudo-scientific imagery, and text
bubbles–all hallmarks of pop culture–were soon to make their way in the
trippy work of conceptual architectural practices (Archigram) and
critics (Reyner Banham). But was this a symbiotic exchange?
io9 clearly doesn’t think so, and they’ve listed some of
the architectural failures of some of our favorite superhero bases.
Among the architectural shortcomings are the failure to include
kitchens in the Justice League satellite, Batman’s toxic spewing
artificial mountain/batplane hangar, the literalism of the Teen Titans
HQ (whose form curiously anticipates the work of OMA and Steven Holl), and the extravagance of the Fantastic Four’s base at the Baxter Building.
From: io9.com
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