“Architecture must blaze”
af Coop Himmelblau, 1980
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You can judge how bad
the 70’s were when you look
at its super tense architecture
Opinion polls and complacent
democracy live behind
Biedermeier-facades.
But we don’t want to build
Biedermeier. Not now and at
no other time.
We are tired of seeing Palladio
and other historical masks.
Because we don’t want
architecture to exclude everything
that is disquieting.
We want architecture to have
more. Architecture that bleeds,
that exhausts, that whirls and
even breaks. Architecture that
lights up, that strings, that rips,
and under stress tears.
Architecture that should be cavernous,
firey, smooth, hard,
angular, brutal, round, delicate,
colourful, obscene, voluptuous,
dreamy, alluring, repelling, wet,
dry and throbbing. Alive or dead.
Cold – then cold as block of ice.
Hot – then hot as blazing wing.
Architecture must blaze.
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Som en parasit har den lette struktur overtaget den massive bunker, som har ligge der siden anden verdenskrig. Ved første øjekast kan man let skille de to elementer fra hinanden, men med tiden vil jernet på parasitten ruste og overgangen mellem elementerne vil vaskes ud. Om endnu 50 år vil den massive bunker igen stå tilbage som den overlevende med et let skelet siddende på sig, som det eneste minde om endnu et angreb den har overlevet.