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Originally Posted by honte
First, name-brand architects don't really always produce great work.
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I agree. But, we do have the Pelli tower comming, although frankly, I think his supertall designs are incredibly uninspired and boring.
I'd much rather see local talent like Gang getting a flood of contracts, but the starchitect craze is a self-perpetuating spiral of out-selling anther. If someone has Ghery, somone else who wants to sell has to have Foster, and someone else needs to have another Foster...etc. I'd very much regret to enter a state of architecture where local talen't cant come to the forefront, but we ARE getting a Calatrava tower. I think that will inspire more developers to pay for the often mediocre work of starchitects.
But still, is the current lack of a title style and movement tied to the lack of a home-based architect? Without a Root, Burnham, Mies, or Wright, can Chicago really have a headlining architectural revolution? Is a third schol dependant on a homegrown leader?