Thursday 20 June 2013

Dancing about architecture

Elvis Costello once famously berated a music journalist for his questions, saying “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” *

So let’s dance…

Dancing about architecture

Points and a chocolate fish if you can name at least three of the architects or buildings cartooned.

* Yes, yes, lots of others have said it too.

[Hat tip Nelson Brackin. Dancing About Architecture illustration by Grant Snider. You can get a poster here for your architecture/dance studio.]

5 comments:

Richard McGrath said...

The Prairie style is one of Frank Lloyd Wright's early 20th century buildings (e.g. the Robie house); the postmodernist building is the AT&T building (?New York City) and the mid-century could be one of Richard Neutra's (?the Troxell house)

Peter Cresswell said...

Chocolate fish to that man. Bravo!

If you can say "Bravo" about a list including a Philip Johnson building.

BTW, pretty sure Neutra's is the Kaufmann house in Palm Springs.

Anonymous said...

I'm still trying to reconcile "Bauhaus Bounce" with the Goth band who gave us "Bela Lugosi's Dead"...but the Cubism one is the Grand Cafe in Prague, I think.

Nik Haden said...

I was in the middle one last month. Dessau.

Blair said...

My affinity for Phillip Johnson is mainly due to David Bowie singing a song about him. I figure he can't be that bad. And I like lots of glass. http://youtu.be/s15zly_fmXA