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The Cecla - Against Architecture

I wanted to share with you my heart to blow the last Franco La Cecla pamphlet, "Against Architecture". I had the idea to write a little brocade over cynicism fashionable in architecture today, but after reading this book, I could not do that you share. He does not preach, he complains!
architect by training, the consultant was Cecla Renzo Piano and now teaches anthropology worship in Milan and Barcelona, after teaching at the Faculty Venice Architecture. He also founded ASIA, an agency responsible for assessing the social impact of works architectures. He never practiced as an architect. His first chapter is entitled, "Why I am not become an architect." This book tells his discomfort with a profession in decline.
Very virulent against the spirit in which the work leading architects, he protests, through a multitude of examples of architecture-cons show a loss of meaning, often cynical, whose sole prerogative lies in the formal sector.
I must say I was deeply seduced by the look he shall include Rem Koolhaas. This affirms he not justify his work that shopping is the only space for citizens and their only way of democratic participation? In fact, hearing it from a superstar architect who built the four corners of the planet, me, it bothers me! I still love it passes over the smoky exhibition "Mutations" and its aesthetic exploitation of the world's misery. Citing the need to rethink the city, while denouncing the incompetence and cynicism of "archistars" who hide behind their aesthetic ambitions The Cecla offers us a salutary counterpoint.
Again quoting Mies van der Rohe, while seeking good fortune, when asked if artists had not always worked for the powerful? He rejects outright the alibi of the modest craftsman-architect meeting the responsibilities which are his own, in the development of cities today. We are witnessing a true urban marketing, where it only produces packaging; Debord once called it "the look", condemning his time already, this derives from the art. Everyone takes for his rank. New example, sees his Quai Branly called "Triumph of shopping on the history of civilizations," of happiness. In short, a refreshing read. And finish by questioning those who should care for the city as a public good ...

Little thought for all those who feed architecture show.