Tonight Ken Kellogg, Architect, spoke at my school.
The organic, sinuous forms of his small projects reminded me of Steve Badanes, and the Architecture of Jersey Devil. I was lucky enough to attend Mr. Badanes’ lectures twice and even have a jet-steamer autograph of his (and yes, the mandatory Fremont Troll t-shirt). This is the stuff I though I was going to help build and design once out of Architecture school. Architecture that was art and poetry, light and dream (a direct descendant of my first idol, Gaudi?). Ha.
Here are some stream-of-consciousness notes, jotting down forms from the slides….the lecture moved so fast and I could not coherently correlate each thumbnail sketch with the appropriate project. Here is his website, Kendrick Bangs Kellog, Global Architect Organic, where you can feast on the work.
Below the essence of what I heard and saw tonight: poetry from a seemingly pragmatic man, whose soul can be seen in his work, who believes ‘this stuff doesn’t have to be esoteric’ and speaks the language of the field to the clients. Yet he mentions being a dreamer, and ‘dragon tails’. Here are fins, ancient skeletons, shells, waves, mother-of-pearl surfaces. Here is light and energy.
Obviously Mr. Kellogg is a man who, in the words of Shelock Holmes ‘says rather less than he means’.
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