Architecture is (as) a gesture
Architecture is (as) a gesture by Bart Verschaffel
English | Jan. 2001 | ISBN: 3907631153 | 57 Pages | DJVU | 3 MB
English | Jan. 2001 | ISBN: 3907631153 | 57 Pages | DJVU | 3 MB
Only a couple of years have passed since the artist and architect Donald Judd has denounced his 'colleagues' Philip Johnson and Helmut Jahn and their architecture because they supposedly are not 'real' or 'serious' enough. They are not 'real' or their architecture is not 'real' or 'serious' – unlike some of the recent developments in music and dance – because they are only out there to make a profit; their architecture is just 'naked fashion', and they have completely forgotten the 'original purpose'. And most architects do not do much better. 'Almost all socalled architects are now openly commercial…now the only purpose is money and success.' 'Real architects', 'real architecture', with the adjective 'real' functioning here as a synonym for serious – authentic? - architecture.