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Situationist International vs Archigrama battle of the narrative
Week 8 AAHTS 3 / Architectural Coupling + 1
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[excerpt] Towards a New Architecture, 1923 by Le Corbusier
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[image] Plan Voisin detail, 1925 by Le Corbusier
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[images] covers of LEsprit Nouveau, 1919-24 by Le Corbusier
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[image] Pavillion LEsprit Nouveau, 1925 by Le Corbusier
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[image] members of CIAM at CIAM I in La Sarraz, Switzerland, 1928
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[image] members of CIAM at CIAM I playing about, 1928
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[above] Cafe Notre-Dame,where CoBrA was founded
[right] founding members of CoBrA - Constant and Asger Jorn amongst others
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In this period of change, the role
of the creative artist can only be that
of the revolutionary: it is his duty
to destroy the last remnants of
an empty, irksome aesthetic,
arousing the creative instincts stillslumbering unconscious in the human
mind.
The masses, brought up with aesthetic
conventions imposed from without,
are as yet unaware of their creative
potential.
This will be stimulated by an art which
does not defne but suggests, by the
arousal of associations and thespeculations which come forth
from them, creating a new and
fantastic way of seeing.
[above] Manifesto of the Dutch Experimental Group
by Constant published 1948 in Reex #1
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[right] To Us, Libertyby Constant, 1949
[top] cover of Reex
[bottom]scan of CoBRa Journal cover
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...buildings must not be squalid or
anonymous, neither should they be show
pieces from a museum; rather they must
commune with each other,integrate with
the environment to create synthesised
citiesfor a new socialist world.
[above] Except fromTowards a Symbolic Architectureby Michel
Colle published 1948 in CoBrA journal #1
[image] drawings from Corbusiers Radiant City
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[above left] image from 1923 London edition by Harry Clarke
[above right] a 1943 etching by Fritz Eichenberg
The Man of the Crowd, 1840 by Edgar Allen Poe
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[above] Hackney, That Rose-red Empire: A Condential Report, 2009 by Iain Sinclair
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Looking for ... a symbiosis
potentialities
freedom
Evoking ... wandering
authenticity
a new way of seeing desires
By way of ... the individual
(in the city)
[image] map of Paris, 1952 by Guy Debord
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On the bases of this mobile civilization,architecturewill, at least initially, be a meansofexperimenting with a thousand ways of
modifying life, with a view to an ultimate [...]synthesis.
[above] quote from Formulary for a New Urbanism,1953, Ivan Chtcheglov
[left] Prison or Death for the Young,1950 by Ivan Chtcheglov
[below] Ivan Chtcheglov
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Psychogeography is... the study of precise laws and
specifc effects of the geographical
environment, consciously
organised or not,on the emotions
and behaviours of individuals
[above] denition of psychogeography, 1955 by Guy
Debord, developed from Ivan Ctcheglovs wrting
[left] plotting of a students trajectories over one year in
Paris by Paul-Henri Chombart de Lauwe
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[left] LetteristGroup
[right] CoBrA
[left] LetteristInternational
[right]International
Movement for anImaginist Bauhaus
[below] Situationist International (SI) [1957]
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slide with all of the texts of SI
[image] graph of the texts of the SItuationist International
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Theory of the Driveby Guy Debordquestioned how to remove ourselves from the
rigidity of our daily lives, paths, behaviours and
seeked how to enable the narratives of ourdaily lives to become exible, authentic, with a
sense of awareness
[above] published in 1958 in International Situationniste #2
[image] a scene from Guy Debords 1961 lm Society of the Spectacle
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drive(verb)
to oat, drift, drifting (from the French)
it is similiar to the Letterist term dtourement
(a subversive act) and is key in the
construction of situations, or moments of
rupture with everyday life
a technique of rapid passage through
various ambiances [...] involves playful-
constructive behaviour and an awareness of
psychogeographical effects...
[quote] Theory of the Derive by Guy Debord published in 1958 inInternational Situationniste #2
[image] Guy Debord long exposure, smoking
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[image] Psychogeographic Map of Paris, 1955 by Guy Debord
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It could be continuous like the poker game in Las
Vegas, but only for a certain period, limited to a
weekend for some people, to a week as a good average;
a month is really pushing it. In 1953-1954 we drived
for three or four months straight. Thats the extreme
limit. Its a miracle it didnt kill us.
[excerpt] from a letter from Ivan Chtcheglov to Guy Debord in 1963, reprinted in
Internationale Situationniste #9
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[image] The Naked City, 1958 by Guy Debord & Asger Jorn
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On the bases of this mobile civilization,
architecture will, at least initially, be a means ofexperimenting with a thousand ways of modifyinglife, with a view to an ultimate [...] synthesis.
[excerpt]Formulary for a New Urbanism, 1950 by Ivan Chtcheglov
Guy Debord & Asger
Jorn interpreted asmeaning architecturethat exists, ie the city
Constant interpreted
as meaningarchitecture that canbe constructed
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Unitary urbanism a synthesis of artand technology must be constructed
[above] called for Gil J. Wolman, 1957
[image] collage by Gil J. Wolman, 1950s
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Guy Debordfocused oncontent
via the drive
Constanthad a structuralapproach
vs
[image] Life Continues to be Free and
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[image]Life Continues to be Free and
Easy by Guy Debord, 1959 - gift to
Constant
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[image]Amsterdam Municipal Orphanage, 1955-1960 by Aldo van Eyck
[image] cover of Potlatch #3 with drawing of Alison
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[ g ] g
and Peter SmithsonsGolden Lane Project, 1953 as it
appeared for CIAM 9
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[images] New Bablyon over parts of Englandby Constant
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[image] Space Travel,1957 by Constant
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[images] Nebulous Machine wire constructions,1958 by Constant
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[image] New Babylon collaged over existing city by Constant
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[image] New Babylon collaged over a region by Constant
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[image] New Babylon - autonomous from ground by Constant
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[images] New Babylon as a new map by Constant
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[images] models of New Babylon by Constant
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[image] New Babylon collage - view from the ground by Constant
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[images] inside New Babylonbeing transformed by Constant
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[images] Archigram in the 1960s - Peter Cook, David Greene, Mike Webb, Ron Herron,
Warren Chalk, and Dennis Crompton - and again in the 1990s in the AA Library
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[images] pages ofArchigram 1from 1961 - broadsheet published by Archigram
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[image]Archigram 2 cover
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[top] pages of Dream City project, 1963 by David Greene and Michael Webb
[left] compared toNew Babylonby Constant, the suspended city
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[left] cover ofArchigram 3 - Expendable Architecture
[right] cover ofArchigram 4 - Amazing Archigram Zoom
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[above] Plug-in City 1962-64 developed by Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton
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[above] Plug-in City 1962-64 developed by Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton - ofce and housing units for Charing Cross Road
The term city is used as a collective, the projectbeing a portmanteau for several ideas, and does not
necessarily imply a replacement of known cities.
[excerpt] from Peter Cooks writing on Plug-in City, from Westminsters
Archigram Archival Project Online
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Thank you. (Peter Cook at Thrilling Wonder Series in 2009 - 5 t-shirts in 30 min)