Saturday, September 15, 2012

WEEK EIGHT SELECTED READING: ARCHITECTURE IS A DISSIDENT PRACTICE



Kazi, O., 2009. Architecture as a Dissident Practice: An Interview with Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Architectural Design, 79(1), pp.56–59.

An interdisciplinary firm straddling architecture, urban design, visual arts and the performing arts

It captures the erratic trajectory the firm has been pursuing, the constant shifting of scales of their projects, the ease with which they move between architecture and art

Toyed with both the physical and conceptual limits of architecture. In a series of experiments with art electronic media installations, set deigns for the theater, and buildings, Diller and Scofidio have explored and tested the boundaries of cultural and architectural conventions

This understanding of architecture’s fundamental heteronomy is at the core of DS + R’s research

Post modernism in a different sense, one which engages a lot of thinking from cultural studies and other fields

Gendered space, politics of space

Time and movement “When you stop moving time flattens” One has to accept that there is more to architecture than space making: architecture is event-making, its always thinking about perception, and space, use, choreography, setting up relations etc

“Each one of our theatre pieces is explicitly about conventions of the stage- stage space, storytelling, fiction, nonfiction

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