Monday, July 5, 2010

excessive formalities

excessive architecture is XXX. it is to choke space over limits beyond the constructs of reason and the orders of humanity. an insult on normality and the common sense – intolerable they say! excessive architecture is by all means totally unjustifiable, a crime. horrific if you wish.

it's over-cooked architecture, over-architectural architecture, to the point it is sickening to write or draw it any longer. it is way past the point, a waste now. excessive architecture is completely counterproductive.

but it is also hysterically gay, inebriated by the juices of aesthetics and sedated by the hot vapours of hedonism. it is overweight, addicted to a different time, that sweetly overcoats it. it is space given to the lure and obscenity of form, over-formed by the sweat of spatial intercourse and visual debauchery. it is a show of spatialphilia, almost a sport, a ludic fallacy.

this is architectural fundamentalism! a militant disregard for the operational reality, the things it can be or do. it is arrogance to society, deafness to advice and indifference to collateral damage. that is the recipe, the form will follow.