Readings 3

Wolfe had some interesting points in his book, From Bauhaus to our House. It is interesting to me how there are many eras in our time that we go through, or how there are groups of people who claim that they are in a certain era. We definitely do not have many bourgeois type buildings. We live in more cookie cutter type style houses and go to cookie cutter type style buildings for work and school. I look at the Clyde and MARB building with disgust, and wonder when they are going to implode them to build something more pleasing to the eye. Oddly enough the testing center is a sweet building, but it could go through some renovations as well, but it looks more bourgeois on the outside. The Maeser building looks good as well, inside and out. It is made out of stone, and it has a certain look when the sun shines on it.
I know that we need to be cost effective, but the MARB?? Or the Clyde?? Let's stick the engineers in the Clyde, they will not care. Whoever designed the JFSB almost had it, but I still think it could have been designed a little better. I like the terrace they have on the fourth floor. That is a neat idea.