Remix and Reconfigure: the Radical Cut-Up Method of Lukas Feireiss

2017-05-17T12:12:00-04:00

For all the haranguing and hand-wringing about originality and novelty in the discipline, architecture is, at its core, a remix practice. Most elements in a building have existed for centuries, and the most celebrated “innovations” are usually iterations, fundamentally indebted to a concatenation of predecessors. That applies to structure, but also to form. In other words, there is a language of architecture and, like all languages, every utterance is assembled from a pre-existing vocabulary: at once a repetition and a unique assemblage. A peaked roof isn’t necessary in sunny California—but it still signifies ‘home’. For Lukas Feireiss, the logic of the remix—or, in his parlance, the “radical cut-up”—has suffused his work to the point that even his practice itself is something of a collage of disciplines, straddling the worlds of design, art, publishing, pedagogy, and curation.

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Remix and Reconfigure: the Radical Cut-Up Method of Lukas Feireiss