Structures as Text
Wei Yan
| 'Manifestoes' resemble contracts that the undersigned make with themselves and with society. As with all contracts, manifestoes imply certain rules laws and restrictions. But they soon become independent from their authors. ...... like love letters, they provide an erotic distance between fantasy and actual realization. In many respects, this aspect of manifestoes has much in common with the nature of architectural work. It plays on the tension between ideas and real spaces, between abstract concepts and the sensuality of an implied spatial experience. (B. Tschumi, preface of Architectural Manifestoes, London, 1979). |
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This work is to analyze and re-present the content of two manifestoes: 1. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Working theses, 1923. Originally published in first issue of `G'.2. Le Corbusier/ Pierre Jeanneret: Five Points towards a new architecture, 1926. Originally published in Almanach de l'Architecture moderne, Paris 1926. |
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