the Bankruptcy of Architecture

the Structure of Bankruptcy

2010-08-31T12:40:00.038+03:00

Architecture and Bankruptcy

Architecture seems deeply touched while exposed in a condition of bankruptcy. Bankruptcy and architecture prove themselves to be a symmetrical phenomenon, organized by an imposed chasm that lies between them. Architecture is announced as a guarantee for structure and as a schematization of the multiple. A bankruptcy (inaugurated etymologically as the break of the bench where an interchange takes place) is marked by a bifurcation imposed between the actors of a transaction; a problem of fragmentation of a former unified field and an installation of a particular multiplicity occur in this condition; old interconnected schemata seem isolated and unrelated after a bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy conceived as a triple scheme

The mechanism of bankruptcy is constituted by the sudden loss of value that happens to objects or situations that were not only stable, but also guaranteeing the stabilization of many values that may depend upon them. A bankruptcy is a three-partite time scheme. It includes the state before the collapse, the event of the bankruptcy and the period that follows it. Most of the possible thoughts on bankruptcy are related to interpretations of this three-partite time scheme. We may think that the time before the bankruptcy may serve as a constant reference to stability. It condenses the stability of the given, the human idealized form of normality. The bankruptcy itself may be considered as an unexpected malfunction of an idealized former stable scheme; its week momentum and an explosion due to this malfunction produce the consciousness of a bankruptcy: something unimportant for the system is proved crucial and catastrophic. The era that follows such a system's failure is characterized by a mourning of a lost past and a promising systematic investment to non established values of the future. The bankruptcy mechanism performs a circular system that includes, in a same move, architecture, its dilution and the reconstitution of an open promise for another architecture to come.

Architecture of unities, Bankruptcy of a fragmented field

The shape of normality has its architecture; its absolute crisis is performed with a bankruptcy. In this scheme we may also observe a system of distinguishing a unified structure and a fragmented phenomenon. An architecture includes its reference to an ἀρχή, to a beginning and also to a unifying principle. From the other side, a bankruptcy is related to a collapse of a system's interconnections, permitting till then a safe installation of values.

If we accept those descriptions, the architecture of bankruptcy could be examined in a systematic approach of all the cases that are already detected. The unified fields of normality and a fragmented field of the aftrer bankruptcy world seem to create the conditions for unprecedented acts of reform. The after bankruptcy world can be read as a period of reinvestigation and redistributions of former interrelated elements and create new congregations. It seems that in this ongoing era some curatorial practices concerning unexpected grouppings of material in surplus have a particular meaning. Ecology treats the surplus of civilization as a mass to be deleted.
The systematic approach of the period we run combines some characteristics that are unforeseen. The possibilities of new social spaces in the web, the mobility and the new structure of meetings give to the current financial crisis an orientation towards innovative ways of understanding it. An investigation about proposing new programs may apply to the particularities of the nowadays condition. How can the social element be elaborated while we envisage the present financial crisis and the developpement of this particular web infrastructure?

A nostalgia about a lost past or an effort to reconstitute a broken porcelain is not the direction we may orient an architectonic investigation. On the contrary we detect different possibilities of idiosyncratic congregations and reconstitutions of spaces that may follow unprecedented programs. Architecture may propose forms for existing contents. It may propose contents for existing forms too.

Index Cards

2010-08-26T15:07:00.012+03:00

While participants contemplate on the presence of 'archaeological' finds in their projects, another act of reuse took place in the mise en scene of the final presentation. The pink index cards used to record telecommunication malfunctions found in OTE building, in tonight's exhibition and presentation, will be transformed to indexes of each group's project providing information on the people, the ideas and the products of kamworkshop2010.

Archaeology of Telecommunications

2010-08-26T12:00:00.001+03:00

The visit to OTE Building in Chania could be described as commitment to an archaeology, undertaken through examination of contemporary architectural ruins and remains of a previous technological era that came already to an end. Detached from their former state of operation, the material was left unused and discredited, transformed from a functioning mechanical system of distributing communication and an ordered, useable, stored material to heterogeneous populations of fragments occupying an empty building.

This year's workshop investigated the significance of reconsidering the technological equipment of OTE's telecommunication infrastructure in many other levels and as a layer of reading 'bankruptcy of architecture'. The study of the building was connected to a second detachment process, where objects were selectively collected form piles of paraphernalia removed from the place they were found only to form new heterogenous collections

The origin of the explosion

2010-08-26T02:08:00.029+03:00

In the common understanding of bankruptcy, notions such as failure, collapse and crises are often called upon to describe the exact condition. Destruction and ruins are the obvious 'allegories' while ideas of reuse and recycling appear as positive strategies to deal with the accumulation of cultural products.

In this context and the context of this year's workshop dealing with 'bankruptcy of architecture' we may throw a retrospective look to Antonioni's film of 1970 "Zabriskie point"; its final scene presents a building in the desert exploding together with an explosion of everyday life objects and furniture. In this 'dream' of destruction one can trace the concerns and anxieties of the time and the rising theoretical and social critique to western modernism. The sequence of the described explosion can have an exemplary treatment, dealing with some concepts, presented in the studio. A main concern has to do with the question of the origin of the explosion mechanism. We can detect in this procedure a double situation constituted by a unity and a multiplicity or a plethora. We suggest that the triple elaboration of this fragment has to do with different concepts concerning the bankruptcy rationale:

1. a reversed playback of the last scene that goes from chaos to unity, from ruins and fragments to complete and whole buildings and objects; an end of the bankruptcy rationale would be a reconstitution of a unity.

2. fragments floating… chaotic dispersion, population of fragments, never forming any unity; the bankruptcy operates as a catalyst for the breakdown of any possible unit.

3. short and framed extracts highlighting cycles of unity and destruction in endless loops; unity and fragmentation are exchanging roles, unification of system values follow deconstruction of them in an endless scheme.

We may suggest that the time of crises and the bankruptcy of the post-war social and economical system the film represents the desire for change and utopian thinking. The three distorted remakes of this final scene are operated in order to rehandle the concept of bankruptcy today. Chaos to unity, fragmentation and population, dispersion and unification.

Articulated Structures

2010-08-26T01:27:00.000+03:00

Elina Karanastasi discussed different models of hierarchies: networks, rules, framework... she closed the presentation contemplating on the concept of 'bankruptcy', negating its pessimistic content.

Garbage Housing

2010-08-26T00:59:00.002+03:00

Garbage Housing by Martin Pawley. A useful reading proposed by Elina Karanastasi.

See more photos here

3 afternoon talks during the workshop

2010-08-24T21:22:00.001+03:00

A. Antonas, Archaeologies of the Given

Elina Karanastasi, Articulated Configurations of the Trivial and the Unusable

Polyxeni Mantzou, Architecture's Bancus Ruptus or Route

The discussion between D. Dimitriadis and A. Antonas

2010-08-24T17:44:00.006+03:00

See videos from the discussion here

Mid-presentations

2010-08-24T16:21:00.000+03:00

8 groups presented their work during the mid-Presentation of kamworkshop2010 that took place on Sunday 22/8 in CAM, Chania. E.Baraona Pohl, A.Balestrero, D.Isaias, E.Karanastasi, N.Patsavos, G.Panetsos and A.Rodi were the commentators and gave a positive feedback to the participants trying also to handle with the challenging context of the workshops theme: "the Bankruptcy of Architecture".

Ethel_Baraona wrote on this: So, after the mid-presentations that where mostly focused in terms like "public space" "materials re-use" and "mobility" among others, it's a good task to take a moment to read Love's reflections on this issue. As he said: For this framework to flourish, design speculation will need to focus on the cultural and social implications of re-imagined building types and potential urbanisms rather than on their economic and functional performance. D.Isaias: during the presentations also suggested that flexibility is not only a technical issue but an institutional one, as well. G.Panetsos asked the same question in a more direct manner: Who is paying for free public space and its maintenance.

The commentators' reality check of the projects is an opportunity for the working groups to reconceptualise their strategies in order to create more solid design-narratives. We are anticipating the final presentation that will take place on the 26th of August.

For now visit the flickr set by A.Balestrero who documented the mid-presentation and stay tuned with kamworkshops tweets.

conceptual reference...

2010-08-24T13:39:00.004+03:00

how to transform an unused functional building into something completely new and successfull?
how does this strategy applies to OTE building?
is it possible?

the high line

diller scofidio + renfro

Data Hotels, Carrier Hotels or Teleco Hotels

2010-08-24T12:33:00.003+03:00

A New Hybrid Typology for the future of Telecommunication Buildings

by Yorgos Tzirtzilakis

1. The last years the OTE Building in Chania became vacant… With offices empty, the building seemed as "a modern ghost building." What will become in the future? We can imagine, or suppose -and with whom conditions- his transformation in a type of Mediterranean Data Hotel (related to Middle East)?

What is a Data, or Carrier Hotel?: “Within cities, lines concentrate in carrier “hotels,” otherwise known as telco or "telecom hotels". The history of the carrier hotel at the One Wilshire tower in Los Angeles is an example of the current system. One Wilshire is a hotel, a teleco, or data hotel, functioning as communications hub for the Western US and leasing space to over 260 telecom related companies. One Wilshire embodies the invisible physical spatiality supporting the virtual space of telecommunications and networking. As corporations eager to take advantage of high data bandwidth move into or near the tower, over a dozen nearby buildings have been converted to teleco hotels, reviving the real estate market in southwest downtown. But the fiber leading out of One Wilshire remains invisible” (Kazys Varnelis)

One Wilshire Data Center

The Gospel of Judas. Download here

2. Three symbolic buildings of OTE in Greece. OTE (Hellenic Telecommunications Organization) was founded on 23 October 1949.

OTE Tower in the 3th Septemvriou Street

OTE Tower in Thessaloniki

OTE Central Building in Kifissias Avenue, Athens

LinaLoan

2010-08-24T11:10:00.008+03:00

Y.Tzirtzilakis proposes 'Loan' by Lina Theodorou as a reference to this year's preoccupation with derelict buildings.

Lina Theodorou in "Loan" is documenting the remains of 'bankrupt' places: "ghost factories, depressed areas, abandoned villages and places of no possible interest to tourists". The artist is interested in: "sites and the sights that would give me free rein to redefine the concepts of development and of disaster, and to define a personal mapping of regions that contradict the unreal image projected by the media, folklore documentaries, tourist guides and advertising." By constructing/documenting the image of a dystopic reality is for the artist a way to criticize practices that tend to present a distorted image of reality for commercial or political reasons.

Greek Book on the Bankruptcy of Architecture

2010-08-22T03:38:00.005+03:00

proposed to be read (again), by Yorgos Tzirtzilakis.

crisis / critic

2010-08-22T03:03:00.004+03:00

A significant contribution to the discussion of the 'bankruptcy of architecture' was P.Pyla's remark on the common etymological root of crisis and critic. While both words originate from the greek word κρίσις (krisis) meaning 'decision', in the 17th century 'crises' was also used to denote a decisive point, in other words a 'critical moment'. Pyla was elaborating on the ways sustainability is becoming the obvious answer to the economic and environmental crises of our time with the fear of becoming a meta-narrative and hegemonic discourse. A first step against such a possibility, Pyla proposed, is the understanding of 'crises' as a time that calls for critic, and critical thinking.

Architecture to Construct Realities Beyond Buildings

2010-08-22T02:46:00.009+03:00

Presentation by Ethel Baraona Pohl [dpr-barcelona] at the workshop The Bankruptcy of Architecture:

The Bankruptcy of Architecture

“Who says we cannot know the future? We can, but it always a matter of interpretation, that is, of imagination. If that seems obvious, I should point out something not so obvious: that knowing the present is also always an act of imagination.”

-Lebbeus Woods

Ecoredux02 workshop @ArchTUC

2010-08-22T01:49:00.004+03:00

Recycling projects and ideas of the past in Ecoredux02 workshop @ArchTUC. Today the FINAL REVIEW (all instructors and guest critics, 10AM - 6 PM: )

more info here

kamworkshops valuable collection

2010-08-21T20:52:00.006+03:00

see the interesting collection of kamworkshop2010 expanding day after day

Free Time Work (No Stop Free Time Work). The Blurred Boundaries Between Work and Free Time (Leisure)

2010-08-21T13:58:00.004+03:00

by Yorgos Tzirtzilakis

In late capitalism, the production of life forms and what many are calling biopolitical production, are replacing the work activities and industrial production, resulting in the unprecedented diffusion of working time through the duration of the day and the annulment of the distinction between work and free time (which decisively affects all of our lives). So, side by side with the overproduction of material goods and the supremacy of the weightless immaterial credit sector, there emerge a series of “minor” social, economic and environmental dynamics that mark the end of the Fordian work regime. At their base, these are a series of evolving practices, not always definitive in form, that remain “invisible” in the margin of the conventional social, cultural and political systems of representation.

In the past, the workspaces have been the architectural prototype for the industrial production. Like the Fordist factory, it is built on Taylorist principles of industrial spatial organization. Yet while the city has been transformed throughout the last few decades by the restructuring forces of Post-fordism, what has happened to the workspaces? Anticipating the further decline of those constitutive oppositions the work activities sort has been built upon (city versus nature, work versus free time (leisure), mind versus body) – thus anticipating that workspace will become ever more relevant in our urban life -like as a no stop activity- the research poses the question as how to rethink work activities a problem of the Post-fordist city.

If one had to be more specific, the proliferation should be mentioned of alternative lifestyles, the designing of experiences[1] (rather than objects), the dissemination of ecological and non-governmental or independent organizations, volunteerism, contemporary philanthropy, the ‘new age’, ‘positive externality’, creative classes[2], creative cities, an idealized but also ill-defined participatory culture, the practice of endless discursive prevarications, the bloggers’ culture. It might be that a few years ago we thought some of these practices to possess an alternative, even anti-capitalist character; today, however, they are components of the Post-Fordist diffusion of the ephemeral and assimilated into the current rhetoric and the managerial model of the modern “microphysics” of power.

There are some who will find this assertion displeasing. But, since meta-Fordian capitalism is based on the production of life-forms and ground, territory what we designate by punk-aesthetic, alternative counter-culture, interest in graffiti, artistic mode of production even some versions of ecology, including guerilla gardening, belongs to the “formal” economy’s tactic of reappropriation, and therefore to the agenda of the professionals, the technocrats and the politicians. The famous governance is nothing but a way to ascribe value to these social practices, while certain forms of environmentalism are rising up as contemporary platforms of consensus and management of social conflicts and of the extensive urban transformations which are in progress.

[1] See Joseph Pine II, James H. Gilmore, The Experience Economy: Work Is Theater & Every Business a Stage, Boston Massachusetts, 1999.

[2] Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class and How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, New York 2002. and Who's Your City? How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life, New York 2008.

cutting holes...

2010-08-21T12:58:00.006+03:00

Towards Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark And Le Corbusier

Gordon Matta-Clark: "You Are the Measure"

gordon matta clark's movies

about gordon matta clark's fake estates

gordon matta-clark urban alchemy

invention

2010-08-21T12:37:00.003+03:00

latecomerforerunner

What to do when there is nothing to do | mammoth

2010-08-21T12:35:00.006+03:00

Rob Holmes and Stephen Becker form mammoth recently published an interview with Lola Sheppard and Mason White from Latteral Office, and we found there some interesting thouths to share:

Mason White pointed

We were asked recently if we were a “trans-disciplinary practice,” and although it would be convenient to say yes–and likely with much evidence in the work–I think our preferred answer is that we are anti-disciplinary … or maybe un-disciplinary. The only time I would say being undisciplined is intentional and productive.

[...]

But over time, our position has solidified more as a specialization on phenomenon and opportunities that is between categories and disciplines. For example, I still think the most important magazine to subscribe to as an architect is the Economist, not Wallpaper. Reading the Economist as an architect, you can see things before they become relevant in architecture, with Wallpaper or Dwell you are seeing it after the fact, as a trend.

And Sheppard adds:

In most cases the economic and ecologic proposals we are leveraging are common, even proven models, such as job creation or remediation. Maybe what makes them unique for us is that they can be positioned in tandem rather than as oppositions.

Read the complete interview here.

retro-future

2010-08-21T11:32:00.004+03:00

From Terry Gilliam's "Brazil" movie...
More at movie gadget friday and retrofuture today

Architecture to construct realities beyond buildings by Ethel Baraona

2010-08-20T21:24:00.013+03:00

more photos here

Sustainability Crises by P. Pyla

2010-08-20T20:58:00.006+03:00

video extract from Panayiota Pyla's (UCy) presentation in KAM, Chania.

view videos and photos here

Hotel Ballymun

2010-08-20T19:50:00.000+03:00

"From 31st of March to the 27th of April 2007 the top floor of the Clarke Tower, one of the last remaining tower blocks in Ballymun, opened its doors to the public in the form of a unique short stay hotel. Artist Seamus Nolan was commissioned by Breaking Ground, the Ballymun Regeneration per cent for art scheme, to undertake a new work in this changing suburb of Dublin..."

"The rooms were furnished with one-off pieces, customised and remodelled from existing furniture, which were designed and made by people from the Ballymun area, during a two month series of workshops with Irish design duo Sticks and recent RCA graduate Jonathan Legge."

www.hotelballymun.com/rooms.php

Elias Konstantopoulos lecture

2010-08-20T12:11:00.007+03:00

view more photos here

Elias Konstantopoulos lecture about "Re-think / Re-design" brings forward the notion of 'adhocism' introduced by Charles Jencks. See the definition of this forgotten term:

Notions of ‘Adhocism’ were coined by architectural designer, theorist, and sometime designer Charles Jencks and Nathan Silver in their book Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation (1972). They considered the ways in which designers could take immediate action through the use of readily available components in ways that had never been conceived in their original design. Hippy communities in the United States had explored some of these ideas in the 1960s, as in Drop City, where dome dwellings were constructed from car roofs bought cheaply from scrapyards, reusing materials abandoned by the consumer society. Some positive aspects of this outlook were to be found in The Whole Earth Catalogue of 1968, an encyclopaedia of alternative ways of living and suppliers of the means of doing so.

Workspheres

2010-08-19T20:49:00.004+03:00

Workspheres examines the balance between work and life, and the our ever-changing work paradigms. The exhibition of MoMA features six built concepts of work tools and environments. The concepts bring to life visions of the near future and range in size and type from entire working environments to computer interfaces and personal accessories.

www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2001/workspheres

Andrea Balestrero: Shanty Functionalism

2010-08-19T20:43:00.015+03:00

A. Balestero presents his teams' work, www.gruppoa12.org. More photos here

Anti-design

2010-08-19T17:43:00.005+03:00

Archigram L.A.W.U.N. Project (Locally Available World Unseen Networks) Archigram Archive 1969

A collection of projects that criticize the rational systems of organization and establishes a link between building and furnishing objects. The project becomes a series of tables, chairs and other objects, the domestic and the urban coincide.

Much like the process of Freudian therapy, these projects was to serve as diagnosis and cure, radicalizing the furniture tradition and the rational organisation of the workspace to the extreme.

by Yorgos Tzirtzilakis

Y.Tzirtzilakis interception on ArchiZoom

2010-08-19T16:54:00.011+03:00

Yiorgos Tzirtzilakis presented the work of ArchiZoom in the 'radical' italian architecture context of 1960-70s. His presentation -an interception, as he called it- touched on the issue of dealing with 'neutral', 'typical' and 'indifferent' architecture. These concepts were discussed earlier in the workshop after the visit to the OTE building in Chania. Tzirtzilakis presentation aimed to provoke a positive reaction to the building and indifferent or banal architecture while insisting on the 'liberating' effects of non-figurative architecture. The last remark brought a refreshing discussion among the participants on the critical context of the work of ArchiZoom and the relation between politics and architecture.

see videos here

Visiting the OTE Building

2010-08-19T15:09:00.004+03:00

As part of the KAM Workshops 2010, the Bankruptcy of Architecture, we visited this morning the OTE building making a time travel and acting like archeologist inside their building in Chania.

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE S.A.) is the largest telecommunications provider in Greece. Their infrastructure includes more than 20.000 Km of fiber-optic cables, numerous satellite, submarine and terrestrial cables all over the world. Part of these big infrastructure are their buildings network. This year KAM workshops will deal with architecture in a time of crisis, focusing in the building we visited, as a paradigmatic case of insufficiently used buildings in central urban areas.

To see a photo-set of the OTE building, please go here

Yona Friedman | Ville Spatiale in Binckhorst

2010-08-19T13:40:00.004+03:00

Based on a post on Yona Friedman’s proposal for the Binckhorst, an industrial area in The Hague, we just want to share a thought that we think is quite inspiring:

In the late fifties and in the sixties I was regarded by some people as a utopian. But I see myself as a realist. In all of my work I have been trying to demonstrate that everything people experience as utopian can actually be realized. So I see my role as that of someone who passes on ideas to reflect on. To make people think. And when I succeed I’m very happy!

Yona Friedman in the documentary Erratic City, 1997/1998

Read the complete post here.

Sign System for a Temporary Museum

2010-08-18T19:26:00.003+03:00

"To underline the temporary, interim character of the location, we decided to compose the sign system entirely of so-called 'document holders': hard plastic, transparent A4 cases. This proved to be a very easy and practical system. We would print out the A4s ourselves, and just fill the holders with them.

Added to these more pragmatic reasons, the bureaucratic aesthetic of the document holders also referred perfectly to the old function of the location (post office). Furthermore, this signage system was a way to channel our fascination for standardised formats (such as the A4 format) and modular systems. We also liked the fact that the document holder is such a common element at exhibitions. For our sign system, we took this common element, and we exaggerated it by blowing it up to absurd proportions: we used 2000 of these plastic A4 holders in the whole building."

Experimental JetSet

Google office

2010-08-18T17:55:00.007+03:00

Google EMEA Engineering Hub, level 01 floor plan
via archdaily

Archizoom, No Stop City

2010-08-18T17:41:00.002+03:00

via Arqueologia del Futuro

dexion builing

2010-08-18T17:31:00.000+03:00

office-architecture culture

2010-08-18T17:20:00.006+03:00

from Robert Sumrell's thesis see the analysis for office-architecture culture

OTE building at Chania

2010-08-18T16:55:00.003+03:00

View KAM workshops in a larger map

see aerial photos here

real time news from kamworkshops2010

2010-08-18T12:57:00.003+03:00

for real-time tweets from CAM, Chania use #kamworkshops2010

Neufert's Office Section

2010-08-18T12:25:00.001+03:00

ikea hacker

2010-08-17T20:52:00.003+03:00

ikeahacker.blogspot.com

"...a funked up klippan sofa, an ingenious idea for your pax wardrobe, a creative twist on your kitchen countertop, or even advice on how to finally stop forby stools from wobbling..."

Banken und Sparkassen

2010-08-17T20:49:00.002+03:00

a management table

2010-08-17T20:41:00.003+03:00

image from an advertisement in the December 1959 issue of Fortune. Taken from midcenturymodernist.com

office typologies, furniture organization

2010-08-17T20:26:00.005+03:00

from www.carusostjohn.com

The building under study brings forward also issues of office typologies and furniture organization. Historically different theories have given priority to the design of the interior office space leading to “neutral” architectural envelopes.

the building of OTE in Chania

2010-08-17T20:17:00.002+03:00

This year KAM workshops will deal with architecture in a time of crisis, focusing in the building of OTE in Chania, as a paradigmatic case of insufficiently used buildings in central urban areas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy

2010-08-17T20:12:00.004+03:00

“Bankruptcy is a legally declared inability or impairment of ability of an individual or organization to pay its creditors.”

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy

2010-08-17T20:11:00.002+03:00

bankruptcy is understood as the moment when an economical system declares its inability of sustaining it self and enters another cycle of operation promoting, often radical, measures of restructuring. Can we think of bankruptcy not in terms of failure or collapse -due to past choices- or in terms of utopian and idealized possibilities but as another set of operations that call for a different kind of economy? Or can the processes of restructuring anticipate a new kind of architecture?

RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism

2010-08-17T20:09:00.001+03:00

David Harvey animated lecture on Crises of Capitalism

The Wikipedia page for “Πτώχευση”

2010-08-17T20:07:00.000+03:00

The Wikipedia page for “Πτώχευση” (Greek for Bankruptcy) is considered by the administrators greek-centered, which as they explain: “the article presents the issue of bankruptcy from a greek point of view or it presents only the greek aspect of a global subject”. Can this greek point of view discussing Bankruptcy a point of entry to this summer’s kamwokrshop?

the crisis condition

2010-08-17T19:56:00.001+03:00

In this year’s “Bankruptcy of Architecture”, the workshop will investigate the local conditions as a particular moment of a financial crisis. Can the crisis determine some strategies for architecture? The particular Greek moment takes an emblematic form: a positive, constructive look to this bankrupted world we built is needed. At the contrary some very strong concepts need to be redefined, such the concept of “nature” or the “politics of reuse”. Some changes of the value systems have to be taken under consideration for the function of a workshop that always related art to architecture through theoretical investigation.

lectures programme

2010-08-17T19:42:00.001+03:00

download poster

the Bankruptcy of Architecture

2010-08-17T19:16:00.006+03:00

The Center of Mediterranean Architecture (KAM) is pleased to introduce the new thematic field of investigation for its Summer Workshops Program. The program will bring together some selected professors and students of architecture and fine arts schools for an intensive 10-day studio work that will be focused on the specific theme: the Bankruptcy of Architecture. The sophistication of a poor architecture (that reuses existing material) meets the art tradition of the “ready- ade” and of the found object (“objet trouvé”). The thematic field is proposed to be examined through two different aspects, in two different proposed sites that include an urban area and an independent sustainable residence. The works of the summer workshops will take place in the Venetian Arsenal of Chania, Crete.

the Bankruptcy of Architecture

the Structure of Bankruptcy

Index Cards

Archaeology of Telecommunications

The origin of the explosion

Articulated Structures

Garbage Housing

3 afternoon talks during the workshop

The discussion between D. Dimitriadis and A. Antonas

Mid-presentations

conceptual reference...

Data Hotels, Carrier Hotels or Teleco Hotels

Recommended reading | Paper Architecture, Emerging Urbanism

LinaLoan

Greek Book on the Bankruptcy of Architecture

crisis / critic

Architecture to Construct Realities Beyond Buildings

Ecoredux02 workshop @ArchTUC

kamworkshops valuable collection

Free Time Work (No Stop Free Time Work). The Blurred Boundaries Between Work and Free Time (Leisure)

cutting holes...

Towards Anarchitecture: Gordon Matta-Clark And Le Corbusier

invention

What to do when there is nothing to do | mammoth

retro-future

Architecture to construct realities beyond buildings by Ethel Baraona

Sustainability Crises by P. Pyla

Hotel Ballymun

Elias Konstantopoulos lecture

Workspheres

Andrea Balestrero: Shanty Functionalism

Anti-design

Y.Tzirtzilakis interception on ArchiZoom

Visiting the OTE Building

Yona Friedman | Ville Spatiale in Binckhorst

Sign System for a Temporary Museum

Google office

Archizoom, No Stop City

dexion builing

office-architecture culture

OTE building at Chania

real time news from kamworkshops2010

Neufert's Office Section

ikea hacker

Banken und Sparkassen

a management table

office typologies, furniture organization

the building of OTE in Chania

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy

RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism

The Wikipedia page for “Πτώχευση”

the crisis condition

lectures programme

the Bankruptcy of Architecture