Architecture which resists man, which is an obstacle in his path, affirms itself by the obviousness of its refusal, by its unattractive but repulsive aspect. … True architecture is the being of construction opposed to the being of man. True architecture has weakened over the past several centuries, becoming comfortable, degrading itself into ease.
– Paul Virilio, Potential Architecture


Tuesday, September 21, 2010

before the freedom towers...

there were architectural-inspired machines (as lebbeus woods defines them)

libeskind's machines remind me of other ones... that seem to express their essential machine-like characteristics... like this:

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