Design for the collective good died with modernism.
FORMalists renounce all obligations to society, and focus solely on the creation of an evolutionary ART automated by perpetual ROBOTIC experimentation.
All that matters is the sublime representation of FORM!
Site, context, program, precedents, function, accessibility, environmental performance, ecological sensitivity, socio-cultural inclusiveness and designing as if people matter: all these things are irrelevant. Architecture is entirely conceptual, all the time. Architecture is not rooted in physical reality.
All that matters is the sublime representation of FORM!
Discussions of gravity, practicality, structural integrity, efficiency, rationalism, functionalism, poor doors, toxic materials, modern slavery, air pollution, climate change and sustainability impede our right to create FORM.
Architectural education, then, should be entirely reduced to abstract studies of points, lines, planes, volumes and colors. Death to the specialisms of architectural history, environmental systems, foundation studies, professional practice and structures!
FORM and FORMalists reserve the right to operate independent of empathy and criticism, independent of the pettiness of earth and humanity.
All that matters is the sublime representation of FORM!
Site, context, program, precedents, function, accessibility, environmental performance, ecological sensitivity, socio-cultural inclusiveness and designing as if people matter: all these things are irrelevant. Architecture is entirely conceptual, all the time. Architecture is not rooted in physical reality.
That pretty much defines architectural education.
FORMalists renounce all obligations to society, and focus solely on the creation of an evolutionary ART automated by perpetual ROBOTIC experimentation.
That pretty much defines parametricism.
FORM and FORMalists reserve the right to operate independent of empathy and criticism, independent of the pettiness of earth and humanity.
That pretty much defines starchitecture.
the.formalists
Apr 26, 15 6:16 pm
It is pretty much a manifesto.
archanonymous
Apr 26, 15 6:36 pm
such satire. much laughs.
Non Sequitur
Apr 26, 15 8:05 pm
Sounds like a terrible first year project.
gruen
Apr 26, 15 8:23 pm
My building is pretty, is that good enough?
Oh yeah, it doesn't matter because, as you said, people don't matter.
I"m going to keep designing ugly buildings because, well, you said so.
the.formalists
Apr 26, 15 9:03 pm
Architecture is no longer concerned with 'buildings'. What a blast from the past!
All that matters is the sublime representation of FORM!
,,,,
Apr 26, 15 9:23 pm
Beavis Architectuer Inc.
chigurh
Apr 27, 15 11:34 am
The ramblings of a man that owns a real doll.
JLC-1
Apr 27, 15 11:42 am
what is the sublime representation of form?
midlander
Apr 27, 15 11:48 am
will you be selling t-shirts? I want one, red on white. Thx...
the.formalists
Apr 27, 15 2:43 pm
The FORMalists' revolution will not be t-shirtized!
JLC-1
Apr 27, 15 2:44 pm
3d printed? jewelrized?
chigurh
Apr 27, 15 4:07 pm
bedazzled = the sublime representation of FORM!
the.formalists
Apr 27, 15 4:18 pm
FORM and FORMalists reserve the right to operate independent of criticism. You just don't understand us, and the shapes we're throwing.
Our ZAHdazzled goods and FORModities will rule the world!
JLC-1
Apr 27, 15 5:38 pm
Oh , I see now, it's like Kimye.
chigurh
Apr 27, 15 5:50 pm
nah, it's Brad Pitt and Frank Gehry.
CD.Arch
Apr 27, 15 6:10 pm
Go back to whatever ivy-league thinker college that taught you what's important in architecture and kick your professor in the balls. He taught you nothing useful. Thanks.
does formalism come with Sublime 40 OZ to freedom?
the.formalists
Apr 28, 15 8:47 am
We bet you all still sit around and talk about typology and program and function.
How quaint. How traditional. YAWN
the.formalists
Apr 28, 15 8:48 am
We bet you all still sit around and talk about how great all the POLTICIAL CORRECTNESS in architecture is. YAWN
curtkram
Apr 28, 15 9:11 am
just the other day i was saying to this guy, 'boy that political correctness is going well in architecture. there are some crazy kids now days that want to deviate from the political correctness our cabal of architect stylists has forced on the profession. maybe we should write a manifesto for political correctness?' unfortunately the conversation stopped there and the manifesto didn't get written.
i think i'll start with 'the sublime formal representation of safety as an economic and social indicator of a content population drives the politically correct movement.' anyone else want to chip in, help write a manifesto for political correctness?
*it should be noted that no events stated to have happen in this post actually happened.
awaiting_deletion
Apr 28, 15 9:11 am
damn images please! i want to see results.
null pointer
Apr 28, 15 9:15 am
"Design for the collective good died with modernism."
Lost me here brah, the fact that you think that formalist practices aren't based on notions of serving the public good through transgression, and the appropriation of consumerist icons means you're really not in the same boat as we are.
and now back to architecture...
Volunteer
Apr 28, 15 9:28 am
Is anything more tiresome and dreary than the word "manifesto"?
the.formalists
Apr 28, 15 9:33 am
probably the word 'volunteer', and null pointer you're living in the past.
Miles Jaffe
Apr 28, 15 10:27 am
It was a nice troll, very funny, but there's no need to get nasty.
the.formalists
Apr 28, 15 11:20 am
Miles is right. Stop trolling guys! ;D
archanonymous got it right from the beginning. "such satire. much laughs."
But in all honesty, several young 'innovative' faculty members from American universities – even the more mediocre non-ivy league ones – are promoting this garbage. Formalism has become like a fundamentalist religion. It is an 'us versus them' routine, where if you are critical, you 'just don't understand'.
This selfish egotistical genre of architecture needs a manifesto that calls out what it is about, so we can clear the air of this ugly, drunken belch and move on. We are sick of having it shoved down our throats.
null pointer
Apr 28, 15 12:33 pm
Have you stepped outside once in the past 24 hours?
The world is full of shitty buildings. I'll take formalism over vinyl siding and shitty brick ANY FUCKING DAY.
the.formalists
Apr 28, 15 1:24 pm
Yes, ahem, and now back to architecture...
Non Sequitur
Apr 28, 15 1:26 pm
when was this thread about architecture?
the.formalists
Apr 28, 15 1:33 pm
Apparently when null pointer's vinyl siding entered the mix. But arguably there is a difference between 'architecture' and 'buildings', the latter presumably being clad in vinyl siding?
Non Sequitur
Apr 28, 15 1:52 pm
I've never specified vinyl siding.
SneakyPete
Apr 28, 15 8:38 pm
Aw, man. I was hoping you'd never break character.
awaiting_deletion
Apr 28, 15 8:45 pm
never break characater -
"But in all honesty, several young 'innovative' faculty members from American universities – even the more mediocre non-ivy league ones – are promoting this garbage. Formalism has become like a fundamentalist religion. It is an 'us versus them' routine, where if you are critical, you 'just don't understand."
boooooo
Miles Jaffe
Apr 28, 15 11:27 pm
where if you are critical, you 'just don't understand
Sounds like some of the discussions here.
archanonymous
Apr 30, 15 11:54 pm
Form is nothing. Death is inevitable. Void is all. Even the most beautiful buildings crumble and turn to dust in time. It is the human experiences they engender which make architecture transcendent.
Or something.
Where's the bourbon?
awaiting_deletion
May 1, 15 7:30 am
"Function follow forms" - Olaf Design Ninja, Opening Speech at Formalists Convention (2015)
awaiting_deletion
May 8, 15 7:17 pm
Newsource: Shortly after the Formalists Convention Olaf was beatin' silly by Modernists in ski masks. The Formalist gangs have now made a treatise with the Neo-Traditionists in hopes to provide proper opposition to the Modernists. It was later revealed that a few modernists had mistaken Olaf as the.formalists and that the.formalists after breaking character turned out to actually be a Mies van der Rohe groupie.........the followers of the faith are currently in turmoil, many joining the church of scientology promoting Ron Hubbard for a post-humous pritzker.
curtkram
May 8, 15 8:02 pm
whatever happened to the politically correct manifesto?
The FORMalists’ Manifesto
Design for the collective good died with modernism.
FORMalists renounce all obligations to society, and focus solely on the creation of an evolutionary ART automated by perpetual ROBOTIC experimentation.
All that matters is the sublime representation of FORM!
Site, context, program, precedents, function, accessibility, environmental performance, ecological sensitivity, socio-cultural inclusiveness and designing as if people matter: all these things are irrelevant. Architecture is entirely conceptual, all the time. Architecture is not rooted in physical reality.
All that matters is the sublime representation of FORM!
Discussions of gravity, practicality, structural integrity, efficiency, rationalism, functionalism, poor doors, toxic materials, modern slavery, air pollution, climate change and sustainability impede our right to create FORM.
Architectural education, then, should be entirely reduced to abstract studies of points, lines, planes, volumes and colors. Death to the specialisms of architectural history, environmental systems, foundation studies, professional practice and structures!
FORM and FORMalists reserve the right to operate independent of empathy and criticism, independent of the pettiness of earth and humanity.
All that matters is the sublime representation of FORM!
The.FORMalists
Totally and Absolutely Completely Full of Shit
TACFC
Is it 1920s again?
Who's afraid of formalism?
http://crtl-i.com/PDF/SanfordKwinter-foa.pdf
Site, context, program, precedents, function, accessibility, environmental performance, ecological sensitivity, socio-cultural inclusiveness and designing as if people matter: all these things are irrelevant. Architecture is entirely conceptual, all the time. Architecture is not rooted in physical reality.
That pretty much defines architectural education.
FORMalists renounce all obligations to society, and focus solely on the creation of an evolutionary ART automated by perpetual ROBOTIC experimentation.
That pretty much defines parametricism.
FORM and FORMalists reserve the right to operate independent of empathy and criticism, independent of the pettiness of earth and humanity.
That pretty much defines starchitecture.
It is pretty much a manifesto.
such satire. much laughs.
Sounds like a terrible first year project.
My building is pretty, is that good enough?
Oh yeah, it doesn't matter because, as you said, people don't matter.
I"m going to keep designing ugly buildings because, well, you said so.
Architecture is no longer concerned with 'buildings'. What a blast from the past!
All that matters is the sublime representation of FORM!
Beavis Architectuer Inc.
The ramblings of a man that owns a real doll.
what is the sublime representation of form?
will you be selling t-shirts? I want one, red on white. Thx...
The FORMalists' revolution will not be t-shirtized!
3d printed? jewelrized?
bedazzled = the sublime representation of FORM!
FORM and FORMalists reserve the right to operate independent of criticism. You just don't understand us, and the shapes we're throwing.
Our ZAHdazzled goods and FORModities will rule the world!
Oh , I see now, it's like Kimye.
nah, it's Brad Pitt and Frank Gehry.
Go back to whatever ivy-league thinker college that taught you what's important in architecture and kick your professor in the balls. He taught you nothing useful. Thanks.
are you flippin pentagrams?
does formalism come with Sublime 40 OZ to freedom?
We bet you all still sit around and talk about typology and program and function.
How quaint. How traditional. YAWN
We bet you all still sit around and talk about how great all the POLTICIAL CORRECTNESS in architecture is. YAWN
just the other day i was saying to this guy, 'boy that political correctness is going well in architecture. there are some crazy kids now days that want to deviate from the political correctness our cabal of architect stylists has forced on the profession. maybe we should write a manifesto for political correctness?' unfortunately the conversation stopped there and the manifesto didn't get written.
i think i'll start with 'the sublime formal representation of safety as an economic and social indicator of a content population drives the politically correct movement.' anyone else want to chip in, help write a manifesto for political correctness?
*it should be noted that no events stated to have happen in this post actually happened.
damn images please! i want to see results.
"Design for the collective good died with modernism."
Lost me here brah, the fact that you think that formalist practices aren't based on notions of serving the public good through transgression, and the appropriation of consumerist icons means you're really not in the same boat as we are.
and now back to architecture...
Is anything more tiresome and dreary than the word "manifesto"?
probably the word 'volunteer', and null pointer you're living in the past.
It was a nice troll, very funny, but there's no need to get nasty.
Miles is right. Stop trolling guys! ;D
archanonymous got it right from the beginning. "such satire. much laughs."
But in all honesty, several young 'innovative' faculty members from American universities – even the more mediocre non-ivy league ones – are promoting this garbage. Formalism has become like a fundamentalist religion. It is an 'us versus them' routine, where if you are critical, you 'just don't understand'.
This selfish egotistical genre of architecture needs a manifesto that calls out what it is about, so we can clear the air of this ugly, drunken belch and move on. We are sick of having it shoved down our throats.
Have you stepped outside once in the past 24 hours?
The world is full of shitty buildings. I'll take formalism over vinyl siding and shitty brick ANY FUCKING DAY.
Yes, ahem, and now back to architecture...
when was this thread about architecture?
Apparently when null pointer's vinyl siding entered the mix. But arguably there is a difference between 'architecture' and 'buildings', the latter presumably being clad in vinyl siding?
I've never specified vinyl siding.
Aw, man. I was hoping you'd never break character.
never break characater -
"But in all honesty, several young 'innovative' faculty members from American universities – even the more mediocre non-ivy league ones – are promoting this garbage. Formalism has become like a fundamentalist religion. It is an 'us versus them' routine, where if you are critical, you 'just don't understand."
boooooo
where if you are critical, you 'just don't understand
Sounds like some of the discussions here.
Form is nothing. Death is inevitable. Void is all. Even the most beautiful buildings crumble and turn to dust in time. It is the human experiences they engender which make architecture transcendent.
Or something.
Where's the bourbon?
"Function follow forms" - Olaf Design Ninja, Opening Speech at Formalists Convention (2015)
Newsource: Shortly after the Formalists Convention Olaf was beatin' silly by Modernists in ski masks. The Formalist gangs have now made a treatise with the Neo-Traditionists in hopes to provide proper opposition to the Modernists. It was later revealed that a few modernists had mistaken Olaf as the.formalists and that the.formalists after breaking character turned out to actually be a Mies van der Rohe groupie.........the followers of the faith are currently in turmoil, many joining the church of scientology promoting Ron Hubbard for a post-humous pritzker.
whatever happened to the politically correct manifesto?