"Fuck Concepts! Context!” investigates the state of self-inflicted despair whereby architectural design needs to be justified point by point, thereby creating the unnecessary feeling that architecture needs an explanation or needs to apologize. In opposition to this, this issue looks at design as a tool for defining contexts, re-shaping what is already there and formalizing the given.
Architecture Without Ideas?! In Defence of Concepts
Jan Bovelet
A Pathological Normality
Matteo Ghidoni
A Minatory Letter to Conceptualists Composed of Quotations from Texts by Paul Valéry
Cino Zucchi
Four Concepts and a Funeral
Diederik de Koning, Laura van Santen and Thomas Cattrysse
The Measure of Turmoil: Dürer’s Monument to the Vanquished Peasants
Amir Djalali
Enclaves
Matteo Poli
Concepts and Contexts: an Analytical Point of View
Ilaria Boeddu
The Object as Idea
Adrià Carbonell
Without Irony
Kersten Geers
The Delight of the Site
Pietro Pezzani
The Possibility of Disappearing
Giovanni Piovene
Building Context: When Architecture Becomes the Background
Nicola Russi
Notes on Contextual Architecture
baukuh
Context, Enforced
Fabrizio Gallanti
Cut-up Architecture
Eric Lapierre
Argument Vs. Concept: the City Is Not an Egg
Federica Pau, Sabrina Puddu and Francesco Zuddas
Liberating and Governing Mechanisms
Mark Lee
Venturi’s First
Oliver Lütjens and Thomas Padmanabhan
Being In-Between: the Amsterdam Municipal Orphanage by Aldo Van Eyck
Ariadna Perich Capdeferro
Parallel Convergences
Guido Tesio
The Concept Is Me: Richard Meier at the Getty Center
Jack Burnett-Stuart
The Office and the Loggia: Giorgio Vasari’s Architecture for Bureaucracy
Francesco Marullo
The Architectural Form of a Concept: J. J. P. Oud’s De Kiefhoek (1925–30)
Davide Sacconi
Skopje, or How Context Fucked Concepts and Vice Versa
Charlotte Malterre Barthes
Love Concepts!
Oliver Thill
The Triangle and the Eraser
Andrea Zanderigo
An Airplane Has Landed in the Desert: Myths, Shapes and Metaphors Related to Brasilia
Martino Tattara
Bagh-e Babur
Ludovico Centis
Rituals, Obstacles and Architecture (Fragments of an Essay I Will Never be Able to Write)
Pier Paolo Tamburelli