Here is the manifesto I presented at the AA MANIFESTO: IDEOLOGY, among readings of the old favourites: Futurist Manifesto by FT Marinetti (1909) and Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton (1924).
BUILD!
Think before you build, but never stop building and rebuilding.
In building you discover the other side of the computer screen, in hacking buildings you fight the ruling systems, in transforming buildings you are renewing society.
If you get it wrong, just be happy, you just finished the newest ruin of the near future.
BUILD!
Think before you build, but never stop building and rebuilding.
In building you discover the other side of the computer screen, in hacking buildings you fight the ruling systems, in transforming buildings you are renewing society.
If you get it wrong, just be happy, you just finished the newest ruin of the near future.
BUILD SPACE!
Don’t build forms, build space. Build the void, discover the interstitial space of emptiness where fullness is achieved, like the air you breathe through your lungs, architecture will be the everchanging vessel.
If you end up with a blurred bubbly blob, just join the rest of the world!
Don’t build forms, build space. Build the void, discover the interstitial space of emptiness where fullness is achieved, like the air you breathe through your lungs, architecture will be the everchanging vessel.
If you end up with a blurred bubbly blob, just join the rest of the world!
BUILD ARCHITECTURE!
In building you are creating the space of future, present and past, collapsed in a single space and time filled with exponential possibilities. Build the future, living the present, not forgetting your past. Be here and now always.
Just trust your own vision, your own voice and have a laugh drinking.
In building you are creating the space of future, present and past, collapsed in a single space and time filled with exponential possibilities. Build the future, living the present, not forgetting your past. Be here and now always.
Just trust your own vision, your own voice and have a laugh drinking.
BUILD!
Labels: AA Manifesto, Breton, build, Futurism, manifesto, Marinetti, Surrealism
AA MANIFESTO: IDEOLOGY was a pre-event (a 'beer summit' to tell the truth!) organised as a pre-event to the AA PhD Dialogues ‘Ideology in Transparency’, 8 May 2009.
Here's the calling we launched along with a bunch of posters (which I designed) that announced the event throughout the AA and wider London.
'Calling All Visionaries!
Are you disgruntled with the current state of architecture?
Do you have a better vision for its immediate future?
Can you formulate this vision into a 1-minute manifesto?
Will you seize this opportunity to shout it from the rooftops?'
Are you disgruntled with the current state of architecture?
Do you have a better vision for its immediate future?
Can you formulate this vision into a 1-minute manifesto?
Will you seize this opportunity to shout it from the rooftops?'
Labels: AA Manifesto, AA PhD Dialogues, architectural association, architecture, beer, ideology, london, manifesto, visionaires
