Neil Denari, his Futuristic Architecture and the Music That Inspires It
Another – contemporary – architect with dreams of changing the world is Neil Denari. He is an educator, writer and creator of buildings – from houses in Los Angeles to a condo building on New York’s High Line to a port in Keelung, Taiwan (shown in rendering, above).
Denari was one of the early enthusiasts for applying computers to architecture – not just the process of design, but metaphorically. His buildings all have a neo-futuristic look and the shiny, hard surfaces of machines. Neil says he’s interested in the development of “cultural ergonomics”, by which he means those forms that “fit” our contemporary life. And some of those forms, such as a model of hl23, his condo building overlooking New York’s High Line (shown below in aerial view from the southeast, shot by Benny Chan Fotoworks), are currently on show as part of the New Sculpturalism show at MOCA.