{"id":788,"date":"2012-02-04T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/02\/architecture-and-the-creative-class.html"},"modified":"2012-02-04T15:47:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T23:47:00","slug":"architecture-and-the-creative-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/02\/architecture-and-the-creative-class.html","title":{"rendered":"Architecture and the Creative Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THINGS seemed to be going so well: The architect was a figure tailor-made for the heyday of bourgeois bohemia, and Frank Gehry was palling around with Brad Pitt.<\/p>\n<p>But things changed, badly, and it&#8217;s not clear now when, or how, they&#8217;ll change back. Corporate firms are in some cases doing fine, and architects who design for the 1% are doing better than those who depend on civic projects, but many others are hurting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-lqHnN-NjwHc\/Ty7Aqcg_7VI\/AAAAAAAABQQ\/WQBGHgJDAkI\/s1600\/Bilbao.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-lqHnN-NjwHc\/Ty7Aqcg_7VI\/AAAAAAAABQQ\/WQBGHgJDAkI\/s1600\/Bilbao.jpg\"><\/a>The\u00a0latest of my stories about the creative class in the 21st century &#8212; part of Salon&#8217;s Art in Crisis series &#8212; just went up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/02\/04\/the_architecture_meltdown\/\">HERE<\/a>. I spoke to a number of architects and observers to get a sense of this important but imperiled field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THINGS seemed to be going so well: The architect was a figure tailor-made for the heyday of bourgeois bohemia, and Frank Gehry was palling around with Brad Pitt. But things changed, badly, and it&#8217;s not clear now when, or how, they&#8217;ll change back. Corporate firms are in some cases doing fine, and architects who design [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[52,39,31],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-architecture","7":"category-creative-class","8":"category-downturn","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}