mammoth » colombia http://m.ammoth.us/blog the herculez gomez of architecture blogs Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:48:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 youth of today http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/05/youth-of-today/ http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/05/youth-of-today/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 23:00:35 +0000 rholmes http://m.ammoth.us/blog/?p=2585 One of the best of the print architectural critics, Christopher Hawthorne, writes about his recent visit to Medellin in the LA Times, and offers a well-rounded evaluation of the significance of the notable projects completed there in the past decade.  While the most important thing about Medellín’s new architecture is, as Hawthorne writes and mammoth noted previously, that it has been deployed as social infrastructure for the poorest areas of the city, I find particularly interesting Hawthorne’s insight about the relationship between Colombia’s legally-mandated competition-based selection process for publicly funded projects and the flowering of young, local firms that process has nurtured, which stands in stark contrast to the North American tendency to award public projects to a relatively small shortlist of the usual globe-trotting suspects.

[link via @javierest, @bldgblog]

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