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between the lines of no2self.net
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It is an architecture of easiness, a form of liberalism which fails to make any form of distinction, where nothing is wrong. It is endlessly optimistic to the point of recklessness. It is pro-client, pro-market, pro-almost everything (but most of all, pro itself with total absence of self awareness) and lacks any kind of critical distance. An offspring of baby boomer and dot com excess and degeneracy. It is anti-intellectual, anti -historical, anti-cultural. It represents a philistine idea of creativity. It is an architectural approach that operates like a bottle trap with no way out; smooth sided with no means of escape.
Very satisfied with my heather coloured balconies
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When I try to tell my inquisitors that architecture and information “architecture” are not the same thing, that physicality is a bitch, that 1:1 prototyping with real matter (!) tends to be prohibitively expensive given the way architectural practice is set up their eyes glaze over. Look, I’m as optimistic as anyone else, I love the web, I love software, I’ve been through those trenches. But if you want to start talking about some serious cross-disciplinary pollination then you better take both sides of that disciplinary divide seriously. When your ubi runs into my building with its boring HVAC, mundane load paths, typical finished floors, plain old foundations, etc etc the transformative powers of comp are bracketed pretty seriously by the realities of the physical world.
Sense of the city
bookmarked page 248 in Sense of the city by edited by Mirko Zardini; with essays by Wolfgang Schivelbusch… [et al.]: Nobody thinks of asphalt in aesthetic terms…it’s blackness amongst…
Q. Architects are ninjas?
A. Not all of them - but most, yes. Think about the similarities: both have underground extensive training in multiple defensive and offensive arts, neither sleep [its the cousin of death], both know everything about everything - and are constantly schooling the masses, both exist best in total harmony with their environment, both [well, most] operate in the background - manipulating the world around them without the knowledge of the masses.
