For the first time, the speculative in architecture becomes a topic of critical research. It is investigated, not as idealistic but as strategic acting within endless modernity. This modernity implies that speculation, as strategic acting, is not only applied to economic, but also to political and aesthetic values. Values become mobile, valuations become a play with high and low, authors (architects) become winners or losers and culture becomes fashion. Includes projects by NL Architects, MVRDV, Aristide Antonas, FAT, Ralf Schreiber, Pascual Sisto, Ant Farm, Caspar Stracke, OMA, JODI, Kevin Bauman and others.
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Spectacular Speculation,
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This book features seven different crazy-covers, which are attached as postcards with a rubber ring. I bought the one with rainbow-house at [...]
I really love the layout and the cover. I think the design concept was to make a book without a cover, since it begins with contents after removing the postcards. I am a fan of self-publications and i can say that, it is for now one of my favorites. As a designer i think this speculative theory not only concerns architecture, but also all other design fields dealing with strategic acting. They say "it is strategy that mediates between work and world, between intention and attention and that decides on success or failure of any effort." To transfer the economic term of speculation, as strategic acting, into the field of culture is somehow mean, but, at the same time, plausible, as it is referred to fashion: modern culture is 'fashionable', that is why i like it... Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time Volume 2: Doing (Almost Nothing) Art Power Pet Architecture Guide Book Vol 2 The Fashion System EMIGRE : ESSAYS, TEXTS AND OTHER WRITINGS ABOUT GRAPHIC DESIGN NO. 20 - EXPATRIATES Rant: Emigre No. 64Ecstasy Of Things, The
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