<h1>Reading architecture 02</h1>
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The second part of the supplementary series to the exhibition activities of Norma Space. Reading architecture provides a space for open discussion on current texts in the field of architecture. Together with guests from among architects, theorists, and sociologists, we will search for and discuss topics affecting contemporary architectural practice.
Rumpfhuber's essay thematically follows up on the first part of Reading Architecture, in which we discussed Beatriz Colomina's text 24/7 Bed. Here, too, the transformations of the nature of work and the environment in which it is performed are central to the interest; the jumping-off point for this discussion is the series of protests known as Bed-Ins by Yoko Ono and John Lennon. However, Rumpfhuber places it into his own context of the development of work, adding a more complex analysis of changes in work environments in relation to social changes.
In addition to the content, the intersection of both essays is noteworthy, despite their differing starting points and focuses; ultimately even the ethics of writing and the forms of sharing knowledge.
“Today, the bed is a paradigmatic place for contemporary forms of knowledge and creative work. It was once the pinnacle of the utopias of industrial workers, who hoped to one day live as glamorously as a queen or another monarch, surrounded by courtiers, able to stay in bed all day instead of going to work. Today, the bed is no longer anything exclusive, or perhaps even royal, but the connotations of luxury, both material and temporal, remain. However, the bed is not a place where we can lazily lounge and rest, perhaps even avoid work. Today, the bed is the office of creative work.” /text from the introduction to Working Glamour/
The essay was published as part of the book Into the Great Wide Open, which seeks contemporary starting points for architectural practice. Practice is understood here both as a critical reflection of its own status quo and historical development, as well as forms of (active) interventions through designs and plans. The book is a collection of fragments of an ongoing, changing process of searching for one’s own space in creation and reflection on the built environment; through the contained themes and their processing, it problematizes the very question: “What needs to be done?”
The discussion is open to all. It is advisable to become familiar with the text in advance – the full English version is freely available for download here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jnt1a7wp8vrw6lr/Working%20Glamour_AR.pdf?dl=0. A working translation into Czech is also available – if interested in receiving it, please write to [email protected].
Andreas Rumpfhuber: Working Glamour
In: Into the Great Wide Open, Editor: Andreas Rumpfhuber, Published by dpr-barcelona, 2017, ISBN: 978-84-947523-1-5
Norma is a platform. It tests space through the coexistence of disciplines, people, and art. Practice conditions our view, theory sets the environment for critical discussion.
Rumpfhuber's essay thematically follows up on the first part of Reading Architecture, in which we discussed Beatriz Colomina's text 24/7 Bed. Here, too, the transformations of the nature of work and the environment in which it is performed are central to the interest; the jumping-off point for this discussion is the series of protests known as Bed-Ins by Yoko Ono and John Lennon. However, Rumpfhuber places it into his own context of the development of work, adding a more complex analysis of changes in work environments in relation to social changes.
In addition to the content, the intersection of both essays is noteworthy, despite their differing starting points and focuses; ultimately even the ethics of writing and the forms of sharing knowledge.
“Today, the bed is a paradigmatic place for contemporary forms of knowledge and creative work. It was once the pinnacle of the utopias of industrial workers, who hoped to one day live as glamorously as a queen or another monarch, surrounded by courtiers, able to stay in bed all day instead of going to work. Today, the bed is no longer anything exclusive, or perhaps even royal, but the connotations of luxury, both material and temporal, remain. However, the bed is not a place where we can lazily lounge and rest, perhaps even avoid work. Today, the bed is the office of creative work.” /text from the introduction to Working Glamour/
The essay was published as part of the book Into the Great Wide Open, which seeks contemporary starting points for architectural practice. Practice is understood here both as a critical reflection of its own status quo and historical development, as well as forms of (active) interventions through designs and plans. The book is a collection of fragments of an ongoing, changing process of searching for one’s own space in creation and reflection on the built environment; through the contained themes and their processing, it problematizes the very question: “What needs to be done?”
The discussion is open to all. It is advisable to become familiar with the text in advance – the full English version is freely available for download here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jnt1a7wp8vrw6lr/Working%20Glamour_AR.pdf?dl=0. A working translation into Czech is also available – if interested in receiving it, please write to [email protected].
Andreas Rumpfhuber: Working Glamour
In: Into the Great Wide Open, Editor: Andreas Rumpfhuber, Published by dpr-barcelona, 2017, ISBN: 978-84-947523-1-5
Norma is a platform. It tests space through the coexistence of disciplines, people, and art. Practice conditions our view, theory sets the environment for critical discussion.
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