Week 04 // Reading Reflection : Politics & Situationist International

Situationist International exhibition flyer [1989] by Jamie Reid

http://www.jamiereid.org

Concepts that emerged as relevant to our thought direction from this reading and being particularly striking -

* Architects whose concerns are not with the buildings that might be constructed from their designs.

* 'Paper architecture' consists in works which are put forward as works of architecture but which are never intended to be built; and indeed in most cases they could not be built.

* The view is that architecture can accommodate works where the thought contained in the work is of an architectural nature.

* How far from the built form of an edifice can architectural thought stray, whilst, arguably, still being considered architecture?

* Architectural work that does not consist in building.

* In opposition to modernism, seek to rid the world of a static notion of what constitutes architecture; replacing that notion or extending it to include systems of communication and methods of production.