You have Pritzkers
and you have... Pretzels. You have Jewish Pretzel and you have Chinese
Pritzker. No obvious relation here, but then again, this certainly won´t be an
obvious line of thought.
Pretzel is
Jewish food, and Pritzker is a prized architect. The last pritzker on the
table is Chinese and the last pretzel on the table is still Jewish. No
relation there either... But, sometimes, Jewish related business is often political,
and, in a wild assumption, architecture is political too. Or perhaps, for
the sake of political correctness argument: architecture is often politicized...
Another big difference
is that Pretzels are largely known around the globe. The last Chinese awarded
with the Pritzker prize is not. Every architect I know, and I know allot of
them, didn’t had a clue who the hell is Wang Shu. This can mean one of two
things: or this guy was dough from a whole by political reasons, or
it tells something about the poor quality of my friends and their lack of
general cultural knowledge. Probably is the second, a category in wish I
include myself.
But this is doubtful
and raises questions, because all my friends, unfortunately, are architects...
This also tells allot about me. What remains a bite confusing is that
every architect is usually cultured enough to, at least, had heard the name of
any architect that has the slight relevance for being considered
"Pritzerkable". This happens because architects, has everyone knows,
don´t have a proper life beyond the walls of the discipline in which they bare
all of the time life has given to them. Architects only talk about architecture
or anything that is related to it. I still don´t know if this is kind of a
religion. I believe that architecture possesses something mystical, but if it
is an actual religion, then a relation with Jewish Pretzels
can finally be made. If in fact architecture is a religion for
architects, beware because they could be dangerous fundamentalists. And since
they (I’m writing in the third person trying unsuccessfully to distance myself
from that clan, a bit because of self pity and shame) only talk about it, it is
very strange that the name Wang Shu could mean Chinese food for them. Ops,
another possible Pritzker-Pretzel relation...
I don´t mean to take
any credit out of Wang Shu, primarily because I can´t, in intellectual honesty,
take credit from someone of whom I don´t know more than what google allowed me
to know... But still this thing seems very blurry to me.
Well, now I’m hungry...
I thing Im going to eat a Pritzker with noodles and fried dog.
Uí tóu jiàn people (I googletranslated for “see you
later”…)
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