#architectural discourse

[diskursblog-blog]

To create, one must first question everything

Eileen Gray

[ideasforthebrave-blog]

What if acronyms were banished from architectural discourse?

How would you speak efficiently about the RFI’s on the CD sets, referencing ADA in the BOH? - Chanel Dehond

[davidbrussat]

New blog, old conversation

New blog, old conversation

The following is the first post published on my new blog with Traditional Building and Period Homes magazines. These are monthly and will be posted on this blog a month following their posting at TB and PH. My second post for this new blog, called “Architecture Old and New,” is now up. It is about the different experiences facing those who want to buy elements of a proposed traditional building…

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[leaerostat]

In revealing the Renaissance as fragmentary, conflictual, struggling between a universal architectural language and the need for local diversity, and between the model of antiquity and the "transgressions" to it he shatters hopes with the existence of a happy condition we have to return to. There always was a crisis, he proclaims. We never were aided by an unproblematic faith in tradition, we always had a limited range of action, and always were in search of our role in society and only working at the margins, on the thresholds. The task which lies ahead of us is the exploration of the full extension of those margins.

Carla Keyvanian on Manfredo Tafuri Manfredo Tafuri: From the Critique of Ideology to Microhistories in: Design Issues, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring, 2000), pp. 3-15 Published by: The MIT Press

[spatialforces]

[spatialforces]

Kopieren ist etwas Gröberes. Ein Künstler, der kopiert, ist vielleicht so etwas wie ein Neandertaler, der herumläuft und ein totes Mammut findet. Das Mammut ist fast vollständig verrottet, aber es gibt ein paar Teile, die man noch essen kann. Und der Neandertaler nimmt sich diese Teile und verleibt sie sich ein.

Pier Paolo Tamburelli Editor of San Rocco Magazine - interviewed by Kristina Herresthal und Lisa Kadel from Baunetzwoche on originality, copying and authorship.

[spatialforces]

PROTOCOLS OF ATHENS. Swiss Architecture Museum (SAM) presents Aristide Antonas

via SAM

With the exhibition “Protocols of Athens”, SAM is breaking new ground, because despite its innovativeness, contemporary Greek architecture has been paid little public attention until now, and has been the subject of hardly any academic reflection. In continuation of the exhibition series "Spatial Positions", which was initiated in 2013 and focuses on works by contemporary architects and artists at the boundary of the architectural discipline, this exhibition addresses the oeuvre of the Greek architect and philosopher Aristide Antonas (born 1963 in Athens). On the basis of his primarily speculative projects and theoretical writings, it deals with the issue of the critical potential of the financial and sovereign debt crisis (which has been ongoing since 2009) with regard to contemporary building culture in Greece: at the latest, it is since the crisis began, that the Greek architecture scene has been forced to rethink the role of its profession, to conduct a reassessment and to add a social dimension to architecture.

Interview with Aristide Antonas by Evelyn Steiner on Uncube “Protocols of Athens” from 07.03.2015 to 26.04.2015, Swiss Architecture Museum Basel. Steinenberg 7, Basel, Switzerland 

[spatialforces]

ARCHITECTURE AS A MATTER OF CONTENTION / The 2nd Candide-Conference will take place from January 29-31 at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

via architectureasstreitsache.rwth-aachen.de

by Axel Sowa und Lutz Robbers