Automated architecture: violence and nihilism as strategies of 'making' in the tactics of Coop Himmelb(l)au

Title: Automated architecture: violence and nihilism as strategies of 'making' in the tactics of Coop Himmelb(l)au
Creator: Chapman, Michael; Ostwald, Michael J.
Relation: ARQ: Architectural Research Quarterly Vol. 10, Issue 3-4, p. 241-248
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1359135506000340
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2006
Description: This paper will look at the processes of making embodied in the working method of Coop Himmelb(l)au and their relationship to the earlier avant-garde practices of Dada. Using violence and nihilism as key strategies in this subversive attitude towards making, the paper will argue that indeterminacy, as an avant-garde strategy, has a long history as a subversive and politically motivated tactic against architectural hegemony and the taste of the bourgeoisie. The nihilistic impulse that connects certain strands of Deconstruction with Dada provides a platform for revisiting ‘ideology’ and its relationship to modes of architectural production.
Subject: Coop Himmelb(l)au; avant-garde; violence; nihilism; bourgeoisie
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/34733
Identifier: uon:3668
Identifier: ISSN:1359-1355
Language: eng
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