In a world where information travels at light speed, the present no longer exists. We live in a conglomeration of the future and the past. In our media and technology driven culture history is made while we are still in the act of doing. Integration of things that now seem banal in modern life has changed our reality to that of a cartoon. Designer drugs, SUVs, living room wars, main street architecture, reality TV. These and many other factors that we have accepted with complacency have turned our lives into satire. Architecture must reflect this parody and show it its faults. This is the role of architecture in the shambles of our society. If this cartoon life is what the population has gotten used to, then this is what we will give them. Architecture based in reality, yet not quite real. A tongue in cheek architecture with a certain campiness is what should be strived for. An architecture that is as comfortable in Disney World as it is in our real world. The tools that are used to do this are having faith in the spontaneous line. Revision only breeds boredom. Inherent geometries can be found to work off of in the beginning planning. Thi sma kesthe wo rkse em mor e ofa who le cre ati ng orde r the nbre ak ingit le nds ire gula rities to th ebu ildi ng:”>out o ford er…co mesch aos and vi ce v? ersa fi na lly con tra dictio n tobe nai ve and sa ge ly9 to ve il and unve il to lur (e in a n dfen doff t obe t he sed ucer and t he se du ced all a tt hes ame tim
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This is my personal manifesto I wrote for a project back in 2003. It's somewhat funny to see I still agree with most of it here seven years later. You can tell I was reading a lot of Tschumi and Venturi.
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