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With the evolution of digital and material technologies, Japanese designers and architects are seeking ways to reverse the wholesale destruction of traditional public space in Japan brought about by industrialisation, automobiles, and Western-style concrete and steel interventions. Japanese public spaces (hiroba, or wide open areas), human-scale spaces traditionally(...)
Hiroba: all about public spaces in Japan
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With the evolution of digital and material technologies, Japanese designers and architects are seeking ways to reverse the wholesale destruction of traditional public space in Japan brought about by industrialisation, automobiles, and Western-style concrete and steel interventions. Japanese public spaces (hiroba, or wide open areas), human-scale spaces traditionally fashioned of warm and renewable materials, are making a comeback thanks to technological breakthroughs in glass and non-flammable woods that allow the expression of highly refined and delicate qualities. Includes an essay by Kengo Kuma and numerous exemplary projects.
Urban Theory
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This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Center for New Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, invokes three disparate realms in which images have assumed the role of cultural weapons. Monotheistic religions, scientific theories, and contemporary arts have struggled with the contradictory urge to produce and also destroy images and emblems. Moving(...)
Architectural Theory
July 2002, Cambridge, Mass.
Iconoclash : beyond the image wars in science, religion, and art
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This book, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Center for New Art and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, invokes three disparate realms in which images have assumed the role of cultural weapons. Monotheistic religions, scientific theories, and contemporary arts have struggled with the contradictory urge to produce and also destroy images and emblems. Moving beyond the image wars, ICONOCLASH shows that image destruction has always coexisted with a cascade of image production, visible in traditional Christian images as well as in scientific laboratories and the various experiments of contemporary art, music, cinema, and architecture. While iconoclasts have struggled against icon worshippers, another history of iconophily has always been at work. Investigating this alternative to the Western obsession with image worship and destruction allows useful comparisons with other cultures, in which images play a very different role. ICONOCLASH offers a variety of experiments on how to suspend the iconoclastic gesture and to renew the movement of images against any freeze-framing. The book includes major works by Art & Language, Willi Baumeister, Christian Boltanski, Daniel Buren, Lucas Cranach, Max Dean, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Francisco Goya, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Young Hay, Arata Isozaki, Asger Jorn, Martin Kippenberger, Imi Knoebel, Komar & Melamid, Joseph Kosuth, Gordon Matta-Clark, Tracey Moffat, Nam June Paik, Sigmar Polke, Stephen Prina, Man Ray, Sophie Ristelhueber, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and many others.
Architectural Theory
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After the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th 2001, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz felt compelled to visit the site. On his return Meyerowitz soon made his way to the scene where, upon raising his camera, he was reminded by a police officer that this was a crime scene and that no photographs were allowed. Meyerowitz duly left the scene(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
September 2006, London
Aftermath : world trade center archive
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After the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on September 11th 2001, the photographer Joel Meyerowitz felt compelled to visit the site. On his return Meyerowitz soon made his way to the scene where, upon raising his camera, he was reminded by a police officer that this was a crime scene and that no photographs were allowed. Meyerowitz duly left the scene but within a few blocks the officer’s reminder had turned into consciousness. To Meyerowitz, ‘no photographs meant no history’ and he decided at that moment to find a way in and make an archive for the City of New York. Within days he had established strong links with many of the firefighters, policemen and construction workers contributing to the clean up. With their assistance he became the only photographer to be granted unimpeded access to Ground Zero. Once there he systematically began to document the wreckage followed by the necessary demolition, excavation and removal of tens of thousands of tonnes of debris that would transform the site from one of total devastation to level ground. Soon after the Museum of the City of New York officially engaged Meyerowitz to create an archive of the destruction and recovery at Ground Zero. The 9/11 Photographic Archive numbers in excess of 5,000 images and will become part of the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York.
Architecture since 1900, Europe
L'esprit du terrorisme
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" (...) Nous avons même affaire, avec les attentats de New York et du World Trade Center, à l'événement absolu, la "mère" des événements, à l'événement pur qui concentre en lui tous les événements qui n'ont jamais eu lieu. Que nous ayons rêvé de cet événement, que tout le monde sans exception en ait rêvé, parce que nul ne peut pas rêver de la destruction de n'importe(...)
L'esprit du terrorisme
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" (...) Nous avons même affaire, avec les attentats de New York et du World Trade Center, à l'événement absolu, la "mère" des événements, à l'événement pur qui concentre en lui tous les événements qui n'ont jamais eu lieu. Que nous ayons rêvé de cet événement, que tout le monde sans exception en ait rêvé, parce que nul ne peut pas rêver de la destruction de n'importe quelle puissance devenue à ce point hégémonique, cela est inacceptable pour la conscience morale occidentale, mais c'est pourtant un fait, et qui se mesure justement à la violence pathétique de tous les discours qui veulent l'effacer. (...) "
Critical Theory
L'individu écologique
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Il est temps de redessiner un horizon, un futur, une joie de l’action. C’est ce à quoi nous invite ce livre, aboutissement de plus de trente ans de réflexion et d’écriture. Jean Viard y analyse la destruction progressive des sociétés issues des idéologies du progrès, nées avec la révolution industrielle. On y voit se dissoudre les classes sociales et s’organiser un monde(...)
L'individu écologique
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Il est temps de redessiner un horizon, un futur, une joie de l’action. C’est ce à quoi nous invite ce livre, aboutissement de plus de trente ans de réflexion et d’écriture. Jean Viard y analyse la destruction progressive des sociétés issues des idéologies du progrès, nées avec la révolution industrielle. On y voit se dissoudre les classes sociales et s’organiser un monde d’archipels individuels entremêlés. Le peuple redevenu foule est alors tenté par des radicalités pour se rassembler. Le commun se défait, l’individu s’exprime de plus en plus, à la fois lié et soumis par le monde numérique et médiatique.
Environment and environmental theory
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Que veut — encore — dire inventer pour un architecte aujourd’hui dans le paysage troublé de l’Anthropocène? Et cette invention en architecture, si elle existe, en quoi se distingue-t-elle d’autres modes inventifs? Alors que la crise de l’habitabilité du monde est patente, la notion d’invention, commune à la philosophie et à l’architecture, se voit actuellement(...)
De l'invention en architecture : Initier, situer, durer
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Que veut — encore — dire inventer pour un architecte aujourd’hui dans le paysage troublé de l’Anthropocène? Et cette invention en architecture, si elle existe, en quoi se distingue-t-elle d’autres modes inventifs? Alors que la crise de l’habitabilité du monde est patente, la notion d’invention, commune à la philosophie et à l’architecture, se voit actuellement réinterrogée selon d’autres coordonnées. La nouveauté que l’on attend de toute invention — et il nous faut bien, peut-être plus encore aujourd’hui, inventer, créer, imaginer pour ré-habiter — ne peut plus, sauf à produire de nouvelles dévastations, s’opérer sur la base d’une destruction, d’une invisibilisation, d’une simplification.
Architecture ecologies
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The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Supplying both a gripping mystery story and a portrait of the artist in his prime, William Drennan wades(...)
Death in a prairie house: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin murders
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The most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fire of Taliesin, his landmark residence, near Spring Green, Wisconsin. Supplying both a gripping mystery story and a portrait of the artist in his prime, William Drennan wades through the myths surrounding Wright and the massacre, casting fresh light on the formulation of Wright’s architectural ideology and the cataclysmic effects that the Taliesin murders exerted on the fabled architect and on his subsequent designs.
Architecture Monographs
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Marjan Teeuwen creates large-scale architectural installations in buildings that are subsequently demolished following her interventions. She disrupts the materials of construction and structure and builds new artistic images in which floors are tilted, walls are removed, and stacks of debris either run rampant or are painstakingly ordered into architectural sculptures.(...)
Marjan Teeuwen: destroyed house
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Marjan Teeuwen creates large-scale architectural installations in buildings that are subsequently demolished following her interventions. She disrupts the materials of construction and structure and builds new artistic images in which floors are tilted, walls are removed, and stacks of debris either run rampant or are painstakingly ordered into architectural sculptures. Constructive forces go hand in hand with destruction and decay in Teeuwen’s work. This book presents several installations from her ‘Destroyed House’ series, including the recent project ‘Destroyed House Gaza’. By choosing to work in occupied territory, Teeuwen allows the socio-political context to penetrate her method.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In ''Making Dystopia,'' architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive(...)
Making dystopia: the strange rise and survival of architectural barbarism
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In ''Making Dystopia,'' architectural historian James Stevens Curl tells the story of the advent of architectural Modernism in the aftermath of the First World War, its protagonists, and its astonishing, almost global acceptance after 1945. He argues forcefully that the triumph of architectural Modernism in the second half of the twentieth century led to massive destruction, the creation of alien urban landscapes, and a huge waste of resources. Moreover, the coming of Modernism was not an inevitable, seamless evolution, as many have insisted, but a massive, unparalled disruption that demanded a clean slate and the elimination of all ornament, decoration, and choice.
Architectural Theory
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The fourth edition of the ‘Intercalations’ series borrows its title from a 1972 science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin posing ethical questions about ecocidal violence. In response to their violent destruction, which characterises our current epoch, these pages traverse woodlands by way of their semiotic, socio-political, historical, and epistemic incitements in(...)
The word for world is still forest : intercalations 4
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The fourth edition of the ‘Intercalations’ series borrows its title from a 1972 science fiction novella by Ursula K. Le Guin posing ethical questions about ecocidal violence. In response to their violent destruction, which characterises our current epoch, these pages traverse woodlands by way of their semiotic, socio-political, historical, and epistemic incitements in order to reveal how practices of care, concern, and attention enable humans to inhabit this world and flourish. The exercise creates space to consider how forests can enable experiences of elegance, affirmation, and creation for a multitude of creatures. Includes contributions by Pedro Neves Margues, Eduardo Kohn, and more.
Critical Theory