the bankruptcy of architecture
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Lecture by dpr-barcelona at KAM Workshops, the Bankruptcy of Architecture | Chania, Crete, [Venetian Arsenal] 18-27 august.More info: http://the-bankruptcy-of-architecture.blogspot.com/TRANSCRIPT
Architecture to construct realities
beyond buildings
dpr-barcelona
“Few people are out protesting in the streets these days, yet many of the social principles of its hippie generation are now mainstream.”
Jeffrey Inaba. Volume #24 Counterculture
an overview
how architects reacted to that state of the world in
the 60s?
computer technology
community
natural environment
the practice
the world now
how architects are acting
NOW in these state of the world?
Environmental concerns?
Participation?
technology or techno-fetichism?
what to do?
how to generate new ideas?
In a moment of crisis and global time for change, both the means of producing and communicating architecture need to be reconsidered [once again]. The architectural project is no longer the individual effort of a sort of hero from the renaissance invested with the powers that modern technology provides.
It is necessary founding a new institution, a disturbing one, an uncomfortable one: irreverent and illegal from an orthodox point of view.
Did someone say
participate?
PARTICIPATION
toward a cross-disciplinary practice
creative urban clusters
how to transform dreams and activism into an architectural practice?
favela painting
“Who says we cannot know the future? We can, but it always a matter of interpretation, that is, of imagination. If that seems obvious, I should point out something not so obvious: that knowing the present is also always an act of imagination.”
Lebbeus Woods. Eight Diagrams of the Future
Rethinking the meaning of the contemporary archive, the production of
public knowledge, and the crisis of the spatial condition.
the firstpaperless architecture book
ever
BLDG BLOG
subtopia
“Architects should not feel left out. Their imaginations are second to none. It’s time to use them again, and to truly rethink what architecture might be.”
Kazys Varnelis. Infrastructure: A Hacker's Manifesto
networkingdpr-barcelona
Postópolis! DF
architecture is a cross-disciplinary practice:
research, academic, activism, writing, art…
the future is NOW
dpr-barcelona
The Bankruptcy of ArchitectureKAM Workshops 2010