- Title
- Automated architecture: violence and nihilism as strategies of 'making' in the tactics of Coop Himmelb(l)au
- Creator
- Chapman, Michael; Ostwald, Michael J.
- Relation
- ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly Vol. 10, Issue 3-4, p. 241-248
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1359135506000340
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- This paper will look at the processes of making embodied in the working method of Coop Himmelb(l)au and their relationship to the earlier avant-garde practices of Dada. Using violence and nihilism as key strategies in this subversive attitude towards making, the paper will argue that indeterminacy, as an avant-garde strategy, has a long history as a subversive and politically motivated tactic against architectural hegemony and the taste of the bourgeoisie. The nihilistic impulse that connects certain strands of Deconstruction with Dada provides a platform for revisiting ‘ideology’ and its relationship to modes of architectural production.
- Subject
- Coop Himmelb(l)au; avant-garde; violence; nihilism; bourgeoisie
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34733
- Identifier
- uon:3668
- Identifier
- ISSN:1359-1355
- Language
- eng
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