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After Architecture: A Conversation

After Architecture: A Conversation Paul Virilio. Photograph of observation post revealed by the erosion of the dunes. After Architecture: A Conversation PAUL VIRILIO AND SYLVÈRE LOTRINGER TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL TAORMINA In 1966 Architecture Principe, a group of French architects and artists led by Paul Virilio and Claude Parent, published a series of manifestos in an eponymous journal. Now reissued in book form with an English translation,1 these texts allow us to consider more closely the paradoxical itinerary that has led urbanplanner-turned-philosopher Paul Virilio from an unsettling conception of architectural space to an even more relativistic vision, collapsing space with the temporality of the new technologies of communication (tele-presence). The “oblique function” that was at the center of the early architectural research— an architecture of inclined planes and complex topologies—was a calculated response to the crisis the group saw affecting all human activity and threatening to bring about “the mutation of mankind.” Flooded with exchangeable images and material signs, individuals had become consumers obsessed with comfort and status. The worst scenarios hallucinated by the modernists of the 1920s and 1930s had become a muffled reality. For Architecture Principe, the function of obliquity was to tear consumers from their neutrality by inducing in them http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Grey Room MIT Press

After Architecture: A Conversation

Virilio, Paul; Lotringer, Sylvère; Taormina, Michael
Grey Room , Volume Spring 2001 (3) – Mar 1, 2001
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MIT Press
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© 2001 Grey Room, Inc. and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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1526-3819
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10.1162/152638101300138530
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Paul Virilio. Photograph of observation post revealed by the erosion of the dunes. After Architecture: A Conversation PAUL VIRILIO AND SYLVÈRE LOTRINGER TRANSLATED BY MICHAEL TAORMINA In 1966 Architecture Principe, a group of French architects and artists led by Paul Virilio and Claude Parent, published a series of manifestos in an eponymous journal. Now reissued in book form with an English translation,1 these texts allow us to consider more closely the paradoxical itinerary that has led urbanplanner-turned-philosopher Paul Virilio from an unsettling conception of architectural space to an even more relativistic vision, collapsing space with the temporality of the new technologies of communication (tele-presence). The “oblique function” that was at the center of the early architectural research— an architecture of inclined planes and complex topologies—was a calculated response to the crisis the group saw affecting all human activity and threatening to bring about “the mutation of mankind.” Flooded with exchangeable images and material signs, individuals had become consumers obsessed with comfort and status. The worst scenarios hallucinated by the modernists of the 1920s and 1930s had become a muffled reality. For Architecture Principe, the function of obliquity was to tear consumers from their neutrality by inducing in them

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Published: Mar 1, 2001

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