Comments on: It Takes Great Places to Create Great Architecture http://www.pps.org/blog/it-takes-great-places-to-create-great-architecture/ Placemaking for Communities Mon, 20 May 2013 19:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Payton_vege http://www.pps.org/blog/it-takes-great-places-to-create-great-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-96995 Payton_vege Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:44:00 +0000 http://blog.pps.org/?p=4006#comment-96995 Amazing write-up! This could aid plenty of people find out more about this particular issue. Are you keen to integrate video clips coupled with these? It would absolutely help out. Your conclusion was spot on and thanks to you; I probably won’t have to describe everything to my pals. I can simply direct them here!

]]> By: New York Architect http://www.pps.org/blog/it-takes-great-places-to-create-great-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-96706 New York Architect Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:37:00 +0000 http://blog.pps.org/?p=4006#comment-96706 Hi, 

Federation Square is really so beautiful guys.

]]> By: ekent http://www.pps.org/blog/it-takes-great-places-to-create-great-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-91389 ekent Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:04:16 +0000 http://blog.pps.org/?p=4006#comment-91389 jct, Thanks for your response. Indeed it is one we have heard repeatedly from frustrated architects, and one I think we understand.

The division of disciplines that you describe is causing frustration and dysfunction for everyone, even for those that come at a project with a multi-disciplinary approach. The place approach we practice, and are suggesting in the article, is a way to reinvent these relationships and draw effectively on the skills and creativity of all involved.

While certainly developers have done great damage as market managers for much of the public realm, blaming the client has not accomplished much. In fact it is this kind of blaming that really is perpetuating the divisions between disciplines. We are also starting to see many developers looking more holistically and progressively at Placemaking — really engaging architects, planners and communities with great results.

Architects have seemed to be the most defensive and prickly about our message, where traffic engineers, planners, developers, community groups, etc. have openly taken the same criticism and looked for new ways to behave.

]]> By: jct http://www.pps.org/blog/it-takes-great-places-to-create-great-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-91065 jct Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:56:25 +0000 http://blog.pps.org/?p=4006#comment-91065 This is just becoming ridiculous. I’m sorry to see PPS continuing the division between architects and planners, designers and community that has become so prevalent in theory and practice. Provoking people who want to do the right thing is not productive. In fact, in my experience, more architects take community planning classes than planners take design studios.
Perhaps everyone in this current “smackdown” meant to address their negativity toward developers- you know, those people who are the largest campaign contributors in our country and decide the fate of most of our public places these days. It’s all fine to say that architects should rise up and unite, but I’m seeing planners and community boards approve plans that architects would have preferred not to have drawn in the first place if they had their way. Isn’t that what we call a double standard?

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