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An Architecture Manifesto - Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice (Paperback)
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An Architecture Manifesto - Critical Reason and Theories of a Failed Practice (Paperback)
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In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith
in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has
fallen into ruins. As soon as architecture leaves the limits set to
it by architectonic reason, no other path is open to it but the
path to aestheticism. This is the wrong path contemporary
architecture has taken. In its reduction to a pure aesthetic
object, architecture negatively affects the human sensorium.
Capitalist consumer society creates desires by generating
'surplus-enjoyment' for capitalist profit and contemporary
architecture has become an instrument in generating this
'surplus-enjoyment', with fatal consequences. This manifesto is
thus both a critique and a work of theory. It is a siren, alarm,
klaxon to the current status quo within architectural discourse and
a timely response to the conditions of architecture today.
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