{"id":590,"date":"2006-06-19T10:56:37","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T10:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2006-06-19T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T10:56:37","slug":"welcome_to_the_game_grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/19\/welcome_to_the_game_grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Game Grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/bx6tc\">rare exceptions<\/a>, I&#8217;m not a big fan of modern architecture (or perhaps &#8220;post-modern&#8221; is the more appropriate term). Neither is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/\">Lileks<\/a>, who I&#8217;ve quoted on this subject before. He and I are light-years apart politically speaking, but I think we share the same philosophy when it comes to buildings:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI have quaint notions about architecture. Context may not be king, but it&#8217;s not the king&#8217;s fool, either. Symmetry keeps a building from flying apart into a heaped-up mess, and helps the brain make sense of what it&#8217;s seeing. The occasional dose of historicity &#8212; and I don&#8217;t mean publicity photos etched into the glass like trapped ghosts &#8212; binds a building to the era that preceded its conception.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The above quote comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lileks.com\/bleats\/archive\/06\/0606\/061906.html\">today&#8217;s Bleat<\/a>, in which James dissects the new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Wish I had the observational prowess to describe architectural mishaps like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAnd then there&#8217;s the face. Can&#8217;t build a new Euro-style cultural complex without inadvertent anthropomorphizing. Here we have the face of a fellow whose wife dragged him to the Guthrie, and it&#8217;s the middle of the third act, and he really, really has to use the bathroom&#8230; it&#8217;s like they modeled him on the Boss level of Tron.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Griping about the asymmetrical, inelegant, cancerous carbuncles of post-modernist public spaces <i>and<\/i> referencing <i>Tron<\/i>? There&#8217;s got to be some kind of award for blogging like that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With rare exceptions, I&#8217;m not a big fan of modern architecture (or perhaps &#8220;post-modern&#8221; is the more appropriate term). Neither is Lileks, who I&#8217;ve quoted on this subject before. He and I are light-years apart politically speaking, but I think we share the same philosophy when it comes to buildings:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}