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Folded Plates: Generative 3D.
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Growing Jewelry ....
These are stages of growth of a digital volumetric organism. Eventually it will reach a symmetric form which is within bounds of a sphere.
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Growing Jewelry ....
These are stages of growth of a digital volumetric organism. Eventually it will reach a symmetric form which is within bounds of a sphere.
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Architects - Death to Dissent
I am admittedly a lapsed Architect (so apologies if I use the “we”). The many years since have stripped away all illusions and aspersions to the self-righteous intellectualism of a younger age.
When young Architects speak of dissent I can only spare a laugh. When the older ones do so then I simply find it nauseating.
The truth my dear Architects is that there are few professions in history that have done and can do so little to “dissent” like Architecture. We are purveyors of an art and creators of a product that is the most expensive product most human beings will ever buy. And building expensive products unfortunately forces us to collaborate with Capitalists (of which I am an unrepentant representative) or Totalitarianists (like that Fountainhead).
Despite all the opportunities the profession has been given, the only politics that we can ever claim to represent are those of totalitarianism - from Berlin to Chandigarh and Brasilia and beyond.
Not even the feminist poster-girl of architectural dissent Zaha Hadid can be spared. She who dirtied her hands with the friend of Tony - Muammar. Who may in a couple of years land an abomination on the wonderful landscape below the Kalemegdan in Belgrade. And who through her mouth piece has the shallow vanity to question awarding of the Pritzker to Shigeru Ban.
No dear friends - Architecture is not a “vehicle to transport us across the oceans of humanity”(the paraphrasing of a line by a young person intended) or to “manufacture dissent”. Our primary role is to build spaces which people would love to live, work or wile away their time in. The tools thereof are unfortunately the much more mundane "form and function" (irrespective of what follows what).
Bill Gates said about the automobile industry - "If GM had kept up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon." If architects truly intended to change the world then most of us would have been chasing the architectural equivalent of the 10,000 Dollar car. A form of housing that substantially challenged the equation of global indebtedness.
Looking back at my years at CEPT I wish I had listened more and dissented less. “Beeing the bonnet” of a couple of paper-pushers with unauthorised, self-certified pieces of art whose removal is supposed to pompously represent “a graveyard of wisdom” is not dissent. It is simply the lack of ability to amicably present an idea and follow due process (just like something you would do in the real world to get something built).
Brought down to it’s essence architecture has little to do with flights of theoretical, literary or political fancy(or should I say vanity?). As architects we “First build products” just as industrial designers or interior designers.
So thats my 5 minutes of dissent. Apologies if I made no references to Derrida, Foucault and Lacan.
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