A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Consuming Sweets: The Work of Architecture in the Age of Selection among Manufacturers' Manufactured Differences
This project refutes the view that the extensive use of manufactured products limits the space for making architecture. The strategy shown here is the construction of complete architectural solutions by coordinating the production of others. The skills required are those of the consumer. The architect as consumer develops shopping into an expertise. The impasse is not between cooption (popular reproduction of unique cultural acts), versus meaningful architecture, but between a marginalized profession and its culture's materials and methods. A meaningful style of architecture in consumer culture cannot make co-option an enemy, but must develop a full account of its relation to it.
Consuming Sweets: The Work of Architecture in the Age of Selection among Manufacturers' Manufactured Differences
This project refutes the view that the extensive use of manufactured products limits the space for making architecture. The strategy shown here is the construction of complete architectural solutions by coordinating the production of others. The skills required are those of the consumer. The architect as consumer develops shopping into an expertise. The impasse is not between cooption (popular reproduction of unique cultural acts), versus meaningful architecture, but between a marginalized profession and its culture's materials and methods. A meaningful style of architecture in consumer culture cannot make co-option an enemy, but must develop a full account of its relation to it.
Consuming Sweets: The Work of Architecture in the Age of Selection among Manufacturers' Manufactured Differences
O'Brien, James P. (author)
Journal of Architectural Education ; 53 ; 25-34
1999-09-01
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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