When I said that all design is a political act, I meant it both as a statement and as a question to provoke further discussion. Why is it important to state such a seemingly obvious point? Because architecture is not often discussed that way, especially in academia or in practice. I often go to reviews where students and faculty only discuss the formal aspects of projects, ignoring all social and political conditions produced by or enabling the work. - Quilian Riano — Quaderns
Last week, Ross Wolfe attended Architecture and/or Capitalism an event hosted by Storefront for Art and Architecture's Architecture and posted a review over at Quaderns. Mr. Wolfe, was particularly taken aback by Quilian Riano's statement that "all architecture is political”. He also found the discussion wildly uneven and concluded "
What was more unsettling, in all probability, was the tacit recognition that the present impasse of architecture".
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