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Ant Farm, Convention City 1976, 1972, printed 2012. © Ant Farm

SUPERARCHITECTURE

Dominique Rouillard, architecte, professeur à l’école d’architecture Paris-Malaquais et à l’université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

1953–1973 : la période voit se succéder trois stratégies pour reconstruire une théorie de l’architecture et de la ville sur les décombres de la médiocrité bâtie largement produite par le fonctionnalisme moderne.

Ant Farm, Oceania, Dolphin Embassy Sea Craft, 1976

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posted 2 May 2012
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Build nothing

“…When we mean to build.
We first survey the plot, then draw the model.
and when we see the figure of the house,
then we must rate the cost of the erection;.
which if we find outweighs ability,
what do we then but draw anew the model.
in fewer offices, or at last desist.
to build at all…”
—William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Act I, 3.

From Paper Tigers at Domus

UTOPIA FACTORY ABRAXAS | Stéphane Degoutin [Quaderns #263 contributor], Gwenola Wagon, 2010.
Abraxas is the name of a gnostic god created by Basilides, an heretic religious teacher of the second century. The Basilidians did not believe in a magnanimous god, but rather in a demiurge, dual divinity. According to Carl Jung, Abraxas is “life and death in the same time. It engenders truth and lie, good and bad, light and darkness in the same word and in the same action”.
Thomas More first used the word Abraxas to name the island later known as “Utopia”. Presumably was he inspired by Erasmus’ Praise of Folly, in which Abraxas designates the city of the mad men. Only in the definitive version of his text did Thomas More coin the term “utopia”.
Utopia Factory is a research center where different utopias are experimented at full scale. Anyone can suggest a project. If it is accepted, a campaign is launched to find candidates for the experiment. The approach is empiric: the volunteers test the utopias for a period of a few months. In the event that it would not work as expected, they can experience another utopia, or come back to their previous lives.
More info: Socks Studio

—via quaderns

UTOPIA FACTORY ABRAXAS | Stéphane Degoutin [Quaderns #263 contributor], Gwenola Wagon, 2010.

Abraxas is the name of a gnostic god created by Basilides, an heretic religious teacher of the second century. The Basilidians did not believe in a magnanimous god, but rather in a demiurge, dual divinity. According to Carl Jung, Abraxas is “life and death in the same time. It engenders truth and lie, good and bad, light and darkness in the same word and in the same action”.

Thomas More first used the word Abraxas to name the island later known as “Utopia”. Presumably was he inspired by Erasmus’ Praise of Folly, in which Abraxas designates the city of the mad men. Only in the definitive version of his text did Thomas More coin the term “utopia”.

Utopia Factory is a research center where different utopias are experimented at full scale. Anyone can suggest a project. If it is accepted, a campaign is launched to find candidates for the experiment. The approach is empiric: the volunteers test the utopias for a period of a few months. In the event that it would not work as expected, they can experience another utopia, or come back to their previous lives.

More info: Socks Studio

—via quaderns