An Architecture Manifesto
Nadir Lahiji
In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruins. As soon as architecture leaves the limits set to it by architectonic reason, no other path is open to it but the path to aestheticism. This is the wrong path contemporary architecture has taken. In its reduction to a pure aesthetic object, architecture negatively affects the human sensorium. Capitalist consumer society creates desires by generating ‘surplus-enjoyment’ for capitalist profit and contemporary architecture has become an instrument in generating this ‘surplus-enjoyment’, with fatal consequences. This manifesto is thus both a critique and a work of theory. It is a siren, alarm, klaxon to the current status quo within architectural discourse and a timely response to the conditions of architecture today.
Author - Nadir Lahiji.
Narrator - Simon Shepherd.
Published Date - Wednesday, 03 January 2024.
Location:
United States
Description:
In this manifesto, the author takes a leap of faith. It is a faith in Lost Causes. He asserts that today, architectonic reason has fallen into ruins. As soon as architecture leaves the limits set to it by architectonic reason, no other path is open to it but the path to aestheticism. This is the wrong path contemporary architecture has taken. In its reduction to a pure aesthetic object, architecture negatively affects the human sensorium. Capitalist consumer society creates desires by generating ‘surplus-enjoyment’ for capitalist profit and contemporary architecture has become an instrument in generating this ‘surplus-enjoyment’, with fatal consequences. This manifesto is thus both a critique and a work of theory. It is a siren, alarm, klaxon to the current status quo within architectural discourse and a timely response to the conditions of architecture today. Author - Nadir Lahiji. Narrator - Simon Shepherd. Published Date - Wednesday, 03 January 2024.
Language:
English
Chapter 1
Duration:00:00:12
Chapter 2
Duration:00:11:56
Chapter 3
Duration:00:24:04
Chapter 4
Duration:00:28:36
Chapter 5
Duration:00:38:25
Chapter 6
Duration:00:29:02
Chapter 7
Duration:00:29:40
Chapter 8
Duration:00:19:35
Chapter 9
Duration:00:27:56
Chapter 10
Duration:00:21:44
Chapter 11
Duration:00:31:08
Chapter 12
Duration:00:25:49
Chapter 13
Duration:00:26:52
Chapter 14
Duration:00:40:40
Chapter 15
Duration:00:00:50