A. Introduction
- A. Introduction 0:00
- B. Generation 0:00
- C. Genealogy 0:00
- D. Digital 0:00
- E. Aesthetics 0:00
- F. Politics 0:00
- G. Ideology 0:00
“nobody wants to make bold arguments outlining what their individual or collective project is.”
In this introduction we hear from Joseph Bedford addressing what this issue is about, who he interviewed, what their work is about, what questions he asked everyone, why he undertook the project, and how his interests in this generation intersect with his larger interest in the fate and future of theory, and the understanding of architecture as a discipline.
Download“nobody wants to make bold arguments outlining what their individual or collective project is.”
“Many have been interested in forms of composition that are discrete, casual, informal, and dumb.”
“They often exaggerate (and would say “mannerize) the forms and techniques that they adopt.”
“Taken as a whole, it is clear that the work of this generation is certainly not like that which is being built by most architectural office in the United States today.”
“on aggregate, this work tends to oppose architectural expressions of high performance, high technology, the instrumental, the operative, the efficient and the functional, and it tends to foreground a new informality, and a new loose approach to reference and meanings in contrast to these things.”
“Let me share with you the questions, so you know what everyone was responding to.”
“you can hear the story of this generations unfold as we talk about their historical situation, their education, their work, their politics, and their relationship to theory, ideology, the discipline, and academia.”
“it was also evident to me that the architects in this group are also identifiable as a group by the fact that they are the inheritors, we could say, of a certain disciplinary space for understanding architecture”
“the work of cultivating a discipline requires more than simply advancing an aesthetic or formal project.”
“ultimately, it is the discipline that will enable us to judge the significance of this work.”
Interviewer
Joseph Bedford
Producer and Editor
Tim Cox
Writer
Joseph Bedford
Narrator
Joseph Bedford
Senior Editor
Joseph Bedford
Music
Background music Dreamsphere 1 by Sascha Ende has been used under CC BY 4.0.