{"id":2585,"date":"2010-05-10T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T23:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2010-05-10T14:23:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T19:23:28","slug":"youth-of-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/05\/youth-of-today\/","title":{"rendered":"youth of today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best of the print architectural critics, Christopher Hawthorne, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-ca-medellin-20100509-1,0,2143183.story\">writes about his recent visit to Medellin<\/a> in the <em>LA Times<\/em>, and offers a well-rounded evaluation of the significance of the notable projects completed there in the past decade.\u00a0 While the most important thing about Medell\u00edn&#8217;s new architecture is, as Hawthorne writes and <em>mammoth <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/01\/the-best-architecture-of-the-decade\/\">noted previously<\/a>, that it has been deployed as social infrastructure for the poorest areas of the city, I find particularly interesting Hawthorne&#8217;s insight about the relationship between Colombia&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><em>[link via @javierest, @bldgblog]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 While the most important thing about Medell\u00edn&#8217;s new architecture is, as Hawthorne writes and mammoth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[843,393,310],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-architecture","tag-colombia","tag-medellin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}