{"id":1285,"date":"2009-04-22T08:47:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T15:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/04\/ephemeral_architecture\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T08:47:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T15:47:38","slug":"ephemeral_architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/ephemeral_architecture.php","title":{"rendered":"Ephemeral architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the permanence, high fixed costs, and relative inflexibility of bricks-and-mortar cultural facilities become more albatross than attribute (as chronicled in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsadministration.org\/artsmanagement\/apr09_feature.php\">Skip Reiss&#8217; inventory<\/a> of stalled or stalling cultural facility projects), events like the Coachella Valley Music &amp; Arts Festival may offer at least one alternative. <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2009\/04\/critics-notebook-from-coachella-tours-of-temporary-architecture-and-notes-on-camp.html\">Christopher Hawthorne&#8217;s exploration of the event<\/a> &#8212; and its temporary pavillions &#8212; extols the promise of architecture that&#8217;s intended to vanish. Says he:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The<br \/>\narchitects who thrive in this difficult period will be those able to<br \/>\nreinvent themselves, at least to a degree, as sleight-of-hand artists,<br \/>\nbringing to inexpensive or immaterial designs a sense of heft or<br \/>\nspectacle.&nbsp;And in the coming years, fans of experimental architecture<br \/>\nand design will increasingly travel to get our aesthetic fix not to<br \/>\nsome brand-new museum or iconic skyscraper but to gatherings like<br \/>\nCoachella, where the Bilbao Effect is now being recreated on the cheap<br \/>\nin temporary, stripped-down and occasionally thrilling form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is there opportunity for more traditional cultural organizations and events to embrace the temporary rather than strive for the immovable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the permanence, high fixed costs, and relative inflexibility of bricks-and-mortar cultural facilities become more albatross than attribute (as chronicled in Skip Reiss&#8217; inventory of stalled or stalling cultural facility projects), events like the Coachella Valley Music &amp; Arts Festival may offer at least one alternative. Christopher Hawthorne&#8217;s exploration of the event &#8212; and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}