Architectural narratives. Manifiesto contra el Paisaje. El paisaje mata, por reduccionista, por simplificador, por descontextualizador, por esteticista, por todo ello el paisaje mata la naturaleza, el mundo y con él irremisiblemente nos mata a nosotros. los valores paisajísticos amenazan la vida. entender sólo la dimensión estética de la naturaleza conducirá a su irremisible muerte. cerrar la vida, poner fronteras entre espacios naturales profunda y ecológicamente conectados sólo contribuye a su destrucción el paisaje remite directamente a la cultura del visualismo*
BLDGBLOG. Dpr-barcelona. Mammoth // building nothing out of something. Things have been terribly quiet here at mammoth this fall.
(Assuming that by “here” we mean “here, on the blog”; they’ve been quite busy if by “here” we mean “here in Ohio and Virginia”, which is where I’ve physically been. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to recap those adventures soon — there’s been quite a bit to write about.) One of the biggest reasons for that quietness is the enormous amount of planning and energy that’s gone into putting together DredgeFest Louisiana, which we’re very excited to now be able to publicly announce. DredgeFest Louisiana is a symposium, field expedition, and speculative design workshop about the human manipulation of sediments, from the infrastructural constraint of the Mississippi River at a continental scale to bright orange erosion control fences bulging with wet mud in a spring downpour on a suburban construction site. It will move between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. ECOLOGY WITHOUT NATURE. Faslanyc.