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ARCHITECTS
Paris: 24 rue des Maronites, 75020 Paris,
Tel +33(0)142060669
Dear Sci-Arc Staff /
email-letter
I have no other way than to cancel the Sci-Arc exhibition in the Gallery
(scheduled in May 25) and the lecture (scheduled the April 6)
The gap of point of view, and the lack of interest for politics and attitudes,
reducing the architecture process to a unique design agenda cannot fit with our
scenario of production and scenario of speeches.
Our works and attitudes are toxic, animal, dangerous, regressive, politic and
computational.
Architecture is mainly an affair of resistance and self-defense, against
hypocrisies and "in"voluntary servitude, to quote La Boetie. It
cannot be reduced to a design goal, exclusively dedicated and trapped by
tooling. I disagree on the way the knowledge is framed by and for predictable
professional, without any potential to corrupt and desalienate through
educational procedures the “coming out” of neoplagiarism and neocopism, which
remind me the Beaux Art symptom and syndrome. I ‘m French and know
perfectly the stickiness of this sliperring addiction.
I just want to precise that this voluntary abandon, cannot be understood as a “tantrum or capriccio” against the Sci-arc students pool, but it is at the level of Sci-Arc staff arrogances and ignorances, which seems to shrink architecture purpose to a simple affair of design agenda.
My best
F Roche / 13rd march 2011
PS Speaking and writing are done here, in my Frenchglish dialect / I let you the opportunity to translate it in the Shakespeare "mayonnaise".