Learning from architecture:

May 25, 2007
Anarchitektur, aristide antonas, sandi hilal, nikolaus hirsch, john palmesino, alsessandro petti, srdjan jovanovic weiss, eyal weizman

which architecture
learning from is learning fromsomething else.

architecutre without architects.
in order to break bonds of modernist.

learning "from"
transformation of information fo ideas into tools.
dedicated research
geopolitical, urban ___situations.
still haunted by that promise that a better building
or better practive will emerge.

arch is no longer observing and speculating outside of itself,
and now it can be learned from...

what is important
architecture's conducting research.
but not in order to build.

witness: witness what is there in order to reflect and communiocate social political through architecture.
witness vs. practitioner

arch has access to political material
economical data, debates aligned with project.
could the pracitve itself induce the information iti si looking for.
can "practice" itself (building, putting in planning
document) create knowledge that was not there before?

witness vs. practice
or intertwine them.

anarchitecture:
editorial group
publishing a magazine:
oliver kleumans, kim furster, andreas mueller.

theoretical arch mag.
approach is to read it
spacial phenomena as political issues.
outcome of political issues.

to look at political questions and architectural questions.

research about the migration at the new european
boarders. new eastern boarder between poland and ukraine.
anarchitecture went to the border and refugee camps to talk with institutions
who work with refugees and immagrants. to gain an overview
of this new situation establishing itself there.

finding positions of refugee camps in poland and finding out that new refugee camps were being built
finding rooms on a few sqare metere where they lived.

visualize the research by mapping, which they regarrde as projecting
registering spacial phenmomena and projecting subjectivve
opinion on that space you were visiting.
combination of architecture
spacial perspective into political questions like
migration or immigration.

tools of arch as a methjof as a way to publish
there are analysis tools in arch that can be used in other ays.

arch as a disciplien

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is it possible to practice resistence within the field of arch?
asked // call for participation to answer this question.

arch

is there a possibility to think about resistence in the field of arch. real alternatives.

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arch--nicolas
moment of authoriy /princples.
how do we organizie the space
how do we make decisions
architect has a perverse roll.
the role of arch is extremely loaded in social discourses.

because it serves for different issues.
impact of the physical.
unitednationsplaza:

zkm: making things public.
bruno's notion of the "thing"
focusses on the necessity of a physical space or something
physical.
raises the question: how do we share things.
what is this process of construction a thing and
how id decision making shared.

how in teh further life of that thing does this work?

major concern when speaking of arhc and urbanism:
we neglect the physical making of things.

imortant issue could reflect in many different ways.
which could imply a logic hwere the organization of space not made by architects. most of the projects are collaborative that are collaborartive

hybrid role of a service provider and an
author ( a problem with the author role)

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man from basel:
we are here in an architecture
and it si hendering our functions.
stage // audience
is making "gathering" impossible.

not about gathering the world into an
object

arch is becoming a meeting conditionbetween many.
a plurality of decision makers.

arch still carries with it that knowledge is available to you and if you command knowlege then the perfect architecture
..

idea of comingn together.

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aguisine anton;

impossiblity of knowledge:
"impossibilites give us a way to find possibiliteis"

concreteness:
an living archive:
(living inside an archive)

blurring between archive and architecture.

goggle construction of the world.

concreteness: of hegel: phenom of space.
when your return:
a return to the phenomeena and then you have a concrete experience.

in arch. would
tep back and consider locality. :

aristotle: from the second book of physics:
where is the essence of place?
concludes that closing the las t part of what we are seeingn is locality
an abstract room

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locality
heidegger: building dwelling thinking
the bridge: a construction
a think place
he is trying to convince us that the gathering
it is a place that is gathered around.
central ememnt that is creating a sort of locality without
any border according to the distance and proximity
towards it.
consider a file from
the forat explorer or google documemnt:
when youy enter the configureation /screen
in expl. you see files
in google you see all documents and they
are tagged.
a listing that goes from latest document to
moset historical..
we can condider this arcdhive
a lcoation.

we can udnder stand this grouping
as a protected area
the no border condtion fo teh tag.
open architecture
if someone adds a tag to my work and it makes
it more visible.
the conditions of how we enter and how we work in an archive is elaborated through anoalogies
from the physical spaces.
that is my idea of concreteneess.

back to the "thing" thing"

things hve become things again: latour:
a move from the internet logic towards a physical reality.
latour: people are represented by parliament:
what the tihing could be after the internet experience
could be undersotod
as a node tht is empty of significance creating a kind of
place around it. and if itt is so ,
then we would have not a poettic realdy borgets.
chinese

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sandy hillal:

-curator of the stateless nation:
-also working on south of west bank in refugee camps

statelessness: people without a state seek
architecture because they want borders
and airports to have a state.
(a state of consciousness)
but at the sametime in bethlahem
in refuge camps people
don't want architecutre because arch in
camps means integreation in the city.
they wanteit but they are afraid because arch is behind a political agenda.

new delhi;