Jun 20, 2011

Malleable Manifesto

On the 10th of june we presented the project Malleable Manifesto in the AIA architecture center in New York.


Fast Culture

I like Obama
I like Lady Gaga
I like Phillip Glass
I like Amnestie International
I like Starbucks
I like Jamie Oliver
I like Michael Graves
and I like Rem Koolhaas.
The manifesto is dead
long live the manifesto.
I push the like button
and consider it done.
I like without effort
I click therefore I am.
A painless execution of discourse
a feedback that really is none.
I like the manifesto
I take a position and therefore I am
an act of bravery
in a culture that is fast

Manifesto 

I like Manhattan
“Ich bin ein New Yorker”
We are all New Yorkers.
Our goal is not to redesign Manhattan,
but to redesign architecture.
We are dedicated to scales of time.
The timelines of the city, of architecture and of the materials we use are currently in a state of friction.
What was formerly Small, Medium, Large or extra large,
is redefined in minutes, hours, days, months, seasons, years and centuries.
We reject the false notion that architecture is only obligated to permanence.
The problem of architecture today,
is the futile attempt to make the generic specific.
We define this tendency as a clash of scales in time:
The houses we design are meant for a century
Whereas the styles by which we design them change every week.
We split the generic from the fast
and assign to every building its proper scale of time.
An architecture responding to scales of time
requires a new capacity for the architect — to be fast.
We are proposing an architecture almost like a tailor made suit
responding to precise and time bound functions.
What was formerly broken down to residential, commercial, leisure or infrastructure,
Is now rethought into functions as:

desiring 
sleeping 
climbing
crying 
walking 
drinking 
praying
peeing 
bathing 
listening
studying 
searching
liking

We are dedicated to a malleable Manhattan,
a city that reconciles time and space through architecture.
If change and crises were formerly the city’s enemies,
they are now its driving forces.


The Group


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