It’s gonna make life easy for me
It’s gonna be easy to get things done
Iconic architecture is conceived and marketed as predigested, faintly hallucinatory new realities. (Independent UK)
Utopian pre-fab at MoMA, in Philly, and in Berlin. Archigram’s back, trying to make cities last by making them change. Walking, plugging in, dropping from the sky. This is Liz Diller’s architecture as special effects, gone city-wide.
The separation of the supporting structure from individual modules should enable the city to adapt without huge effort to its citizens’ individual wishes, as well as to the changing social and economic conditions. (Megastructure)
Architecture as icon vs. architecture as machine. Both promise better lives, one because it can change you, the other because you can change it. Architect as artist vs. architect as technician. It’s all in the word: master + builder.
Most of today’s so-called architectural icons represent only the iconic intentions of their designers, or commissioners. These buildings are iconic, but not actually icons in any potent sense. It doesn’t fully exist, or engage. (Independent UK)
We need built architecture, towers of brick not ideas. More craft, more tekton. Me, I just want a living room.
