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Would you take an architectural pilgrimage?
Donald at www.2blowhards.com nominates some architectural pilgrimages worth taking. I suggest the Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan:
Here is a brief history, with some stunning black and white photos. I also enjoyed my pilgrimages to Tulsa and Kansas City (barbecue too). Buenos Aires has the best public sculptures. I'll nominate the Taj Mahal for the most overrated site; it looks just like the postcard and I liked the saris of the visitors more than the site itself. Here is a picture of Magnitogorsk, which I hope to visit. Here is a broader index of Magnitogorsk pictures. Brasilia is another dream of mine, and yes I do find that image attractive.
Here is an on-line version of Ludwig Lachmann's Capital and its Structure, courtesy of Liberty Fund.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on January 12, 2006 at 06:46 AM in Travels | Permalink
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While you're visiting the Rouge plant, which is a marvel, you can also see some pretty good architecture in Detroit proper. It's underrated from that standpoint. (see here: http://www.123.net/~czege/downtown.html)
And you can even see a classic example of the "big glass cylinder" school of architecture popular in the '70s and eighties (http://www.buildingphotos.com/detroit/DE-rencen.shtml)
Posted by: Ted Craig at Jan 12, 2006 9:15:22 AM
How about Las Vegas? Trust me; it is much more interesting than Brasilia.
Posted by: leo at Jan 12, 2006 9:33:20 AM
What is exciting about the Ford Rouge plant in Dearborn? I just went to Dearborn to see the Edison lab recreation in Greenfield Village. But why would I want to see the Rouge plant? That photo looks like an industrial dump; they have those all over.
Am I just dense and missing something obvious?
Posted by: gamigin at Jan 12, 2006 11:23:30 AM
Any pilgrimage to Tulsa should include the local BBQ speciality, barbecued bologna.
Posted by: Tyrone Slothrop at Jan 12, 2006 11:49:21 AM
What is not captured in photos of the Taj - which, like the Swiss Alps, does not look much different than a postcard from a distance - is the unbelievable level of detail in the mosiac tile work over the entire structure. Breathtaking at close inspection.
Posted by: Martin at Jan 12, 2006 12:14:53 PM
Because it's a miracle of modern mass manufacturing.
Posted by: Ted Craig at Jan 12, 2006 12:27:41 PM
My nomination:
The Long Beach refinery. It's a true temple of industry, so icy and
greenish and white, glowing with thousands of coppery halogen glints,
all of those tiny lights in vertical rows down the industrial steeples, echos of tiny stone rose adornments on Europe's gray Gothic cathedrals, shimmery, encircled in
white mists, and extending for miles and miles. It's like Oz.
It's the most distracting thing I've ever encountered on any highway,
one cannot help but steal a glance upon passing and marvel in overwhelming wonder at the incredible beauty of the great refinery.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at Jan 12, 2006 12:46:15 PM
The Alhambra in Grenada is a nice example of a well-known architectural tourist site that far exceeds already high expectations from postcards and guidebooks. Try visting in the winter, when there is snow on the Sierra mountains. And take at least a day for the whole thing.
Posted by: Zaoem at Jan 12, 2006 1:38:31 PM
The Andes up close by small airplane - that dangerous thin space between heaven
and earth just slightly over where so many small planes crash.
It's dangerous beauty. You have never seen so many shades of green on steep slanting geometic mountain ranges - luminescent, irridiscent, light, deep, blended,
indefinable. The heavy clouds at their edges cling like solid rocks,
casting sharp shadows broken up by blazing spans of equatorial light.
The sight of these mountains, wherever I see them - Ecuador, Venezuela,
Colombia, Argentina - are like a sacrament.
Posted by: A.M. Mora y Leon at Jan 12, 2006 1:49:00 PM
Try the textile museum In Lowell, Ma.
Posted by: spencer at Jan 12, 2006 4:35:56 PM
Tyler,
If you find that image of Brasilia attractive, you should try to make your way to Pyongyang (really!). I was there in October, and the entire city looks like it was copied from a Le Corbusier drawing. Row after row of identical buildings, Soviet realist prop instead of advertisements, monumental architecture (including a hollow 1000 ft. tall pyramid that was meant to be a hotel), 8-lane roads devoid of cars...
Le Corbusier's actual city is Chandigarh in India (luckily we didn't let him touch Paris!). My friend who grew up there is adamant that it's the single worst designed city in the world, but if one is listing architectural pilgrimages, it ought be listed.
Posted by: Kevin Bryan at Jan 12, 2006 7:20:42 PM
I don't suppose you'll ever have the chance to go, but the architecture of the main mosques in Medina and Mecca in Saudi Arabia were pretty amazing. We worked out that they could each fit several hundred thousand people in them simultaneously. They were just huge.
Posted by: still working it out at Jan 12, 2006 7:22:56 PM
Eat your heart out Tyler: I have toured the river rouge ford plant 3 times!!
my favorite architecture though is a bit older, Monte Alban, Tikal, Palenque.
Posted by: Kevin at Jan 12, 2006 7:44:48 PM
The FLW Guttenberg in NYC didn't suck, and I'll second both the Alhambra and raise you the Mezquita in Cordoba. No wonder Escher found inspiration there. And Schloss Hellbrunn is worth the trip to Salzburg (like you need another reason). Is there a Christopher Wren tour in London? Surely it would be more interesting than a day at Stonehenge.
gamigin - The Rouge was Ford's crown jewel: raw material in one end, cars out the other. Almost as vertically integrated as possible.
Posted by: Eric H at Jan 12, 2006 11:05:37 PM
The River Rouge link doesn't go to where you wanted it to. I presume they were Charles Sheeler photographs. One of my favorites.
Posted by: Scott at Jan 13, 2006 10:26:36 AM
Kansas City?!? I used to live in the KC suburbs and can't imagine why anyone would ever want to bother visting for any reason, especially architectural. I'll admit that some of the interior architecture can be nice (I'm partial to some of the excellent art deco work seen throughout most of downtown) there's almost nothing outdoors that's worth your time. Did I just totally miss something over the past twenty-odd years or what?
Posted by: Belgand at Jan 13, 2006 3:46:58 PM
The Futurists were amazing:
http://www.futurism.org.uk/architecture/architecture.htm
Check out the EUR south of Rome:
http://www.frommers.com/destinations/rome/A26280.html
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