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Theatre of Marcellus, Rome, 13 BC
Despite the always present risk of reducing complex phenomena to fashionable trends, the German Pavilion and other similar projects pose urgent questions about the impact of architecture on the built environment. They do that by investigating the temporality of architecture as a material, conceptual and ideological practice, and by addressing the question of durée from a different perspective, one which refuses a vision of architecture as a mass-consumption, disposable, a-critical spectacle. In other words, opposed to so-called throwaway architecture which oft-times replaces buildings with devices, aesthetics with experience or the public with individualism, a variegated set of design positions have progressively emerged. If in the 1960s, Archigram responded to the ‘irreversible escalation in the day-to-day demands of ordinary people for greater access to goods, services, and culture’, 2 by imagining ever-changing cities ( Plug-In Cit y, 1964), nomadic units ( The Cushicle , 1966), or inflatable structures ( Blow-out Village , 1966), today the idea of a durée for architecture is articulated as a political vector to address societal and ecological issues. This approach produces architectures that are different in scope, scale and premises, but that all share some common points: a critical awareness of the need to optimise existing resources and reduce waste, a total disinterest in dramatic gestures or formal acrobatics, and an emphasis on public instances. Most importantly, these architectures, and the body of ideas connected to them, all engage with time directly.
Tempio Malatestiano, Leon Battista Alberti, Rome, 1450-1460 wikimedia
https://hicarquitectura.com/2022/12/frank-gehry-house-gehry/
Frank Gehry, Residence Model . Santa Monica, California, 1977
Yury Palmin, Divisare October 27 2016
Alexander Brodsky, Vodka Pavilion .. Pirogovo, Russian Federation, 2003
https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2023/germany
2 Simon Sadler, Archigram. Architecture without Architecture. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2005. p7
fARCH+ / SUMMACUMFEMMER / Büro Juliane GrebRO JULIANE GREB, Open for Maintenance – Wegen Umbau geöffnet . La Biennale di Venezia 2023
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