James Wines laments architects’ preoccupation with abstract form and calls for more buildings that “reach out to people” in the first of a series of conversations VDF is broadcasting in partnership with gallery Friedman Benda.
“All cities are becoming exactly alike,” Wines told curator and historian Glenn Adamson as part of New York gallery Friedman Benda’s Design in Dialogue series of conversations with leading artists, architects and designers.
Dezeen has partnered with Friedman Benda to broadcast a selection of the best Design in Dialogue conversations as part of Virtual Design Festival, publishing one a week until the end of June.
Artist and architect Wines rose to prominence for his practice Sculpture in the Environment (SITE)’s groundbreaking projects in the 1970s and 80s, such as its series of avante-garde stores for the Best retail chain, which Wines describes as a fusion of architecture and public art.
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