> On Sep 16, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Charles Turner wrote:
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>>> no architecture...
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>> Michael Eisner, Disney and their "signature buildings" concept.
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> Prefigured in a way by Robert Venturi, no?
Venturi did one building for Eisner, the Team Disney building in Burbank:
<http://blog.classicist.org/?attachment_id=3040>
Eisner also discussed having Venturi do the urban planning for the renovation of Anaheim Disneyland, but Venturi made the comment that Eisner wanted to "zone all the Las Vegas-style crap that ringed the park out of existence, and remake it inside as the 'California Adventure'." Things cooled after that and Jacque Robertson was chosen to lead the effort.
<http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneys-california-adventure/>
(The photo shows Peter Dominick's gargantuan 745-room Craftsman-style "Grand California Hotel," another example of the neo-liberal architecture at its best.)
C.