#PAUSE. We enter a Post-xxxxxxx Era. Uncritical? Architecture is, henceforth, Off (-line).
Nacym Baghli, 2013
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à/to Bruno Latour
La Pensée Unique
Letter (July 9, 2012)
Cher _____,
Merci pour vos écrits et réflexions, notamment ceux liés à l'architecture et à l'urbain.
Je voudrais vous faire part, en tant qu'architecte, d'une réflexion/vision sur le 'Processus' de la Décolonisation. 'Processus' intriguant, complexe et aux contours larges et insoupçonnés.
'Processus' qui à mon avis, se réinvente et se régénère au gré des circonstances.
De ce fait, 'Processus' suivant toujours son cours...
Ma vision se veut avant tout critique, mais néanmoins apaisée. Et dans mon propos, la Décolonisation englobe aussi (et surtout) l'aspect social et culturel.
Décolonisation par ailleurs de la pensée, cette 'pensée unique', qui règne en maître mot sur (toutes) nos sociétés contemporaines sous couvert de la globalisation.
J'aimerais avoir votre avis sur cette question 'cyclique' et brûlante, de par l'actualité et les polémiques.
Pour notre part, notre modeste contribution serait d'en faire une (re)lecture, pour l'avenir.
Une (re)lecture critique et positive.
Au plaisir de vous rencontrer,
Sincèrement,
Nacym
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La Pensée Unique
Letter (July 9, 2012)
Cher _____,
Merci pour vos écrits et réflexions, notamment ceux liés à l'architecture et à l'urbain.
Je voudrais vous faire part, en tant qu'architecte, d'une réflexion/vision sur le 'Processus' de la Décolonisation. 'Processus' intriguant, complexe et aux contours larges et insoupçonnés.
'Processus' qui à mon avis, se réinvente et se régénère au gré des circonstances.
De ce fait, 'Processus' suivant toujours son cours...
Ma vision se veut avant tout critique, mais néanmoins apaisée. Et dans mon propos, la Décolonisation englobe aussi (et surtout) l'aspect social et culturel.
Décolonisation par ailleurs de la pensée, cette 'pensée unique', qui règne en maître mot sur (toutes) nos sociétés contemporaines sous couvert de la globalisation.
J'aimerais avoir votre avis sur cette question 'cyclique' et brûlante, de par l'actualité et les polémiques.
Pour notre part, notre modeste contribution serait d'en faire une (re)lecture, pour l'avenir.
Une (re)lecture critique et positive.
Au plaisir de vous rencontrer,
Sincèrement,
Nacym
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à/to François Roche
Not(es) About,
Some excerpts/concepts from letters, 2011.
Architecturization... The reason why, I would like to submit you several concepts that I wanted to share ... especially in these times of massive and intensive 'Architecturization' (démocratization?) of the world ... Aberrations are such that I now trying to exacerbate them ... the only way to 'infiltrate' this general UnCulture ...
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Not(es) About,
Some excerpts/concepts from letters, 2011.
Architecturization... The reason why, I would like to submit you several concepts that I wanted to share ... especially in these times of massive and intensive 'Architecturization' (démocratization?) of the world ... Aberrations are such that I now trying to exacerbate them ... the only way to 'infiltrate' this general UnCulture ...
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à/to Arjen Oosterman
WiiCulture™
(versus UnCulture?) ... Notes about (against) published illustrations. The objective sought by these examples is that presently, and fatally, the WiiCulture tools and instruments produced these (what appears to be) common attitudes vis-a-vis the idea/project … We should sort these information by using 'intelligent' filters and identify the authentic ones, because of those interference and parasites caused by these 'modern' tools. They have perturbed the understanding and the emancipation of architectural (and others) theories today … I mean that, for me, unfortunately most of research projects seems similar because of WiiCulture, including through/in the conversations and writings ... So, sometimes, illustrations give more sense to a concept than long explanations (words) …
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WiiCulture™
(versus UnCulture?) ... Notes about (against) published illustrations. The objective sought by these examples is that presently, and fatally, the WiiCulture tools and instruments produced these (what appears to be) common attitudes vis-a-vis the idea/project … We should sort these information by using 'intelligent' filters and identify the authentic ones, because of those interference and parasites caused by these 'modern' tools. They have perturbed the understanding and the emancipation of architectural (and others) theories today … I mean that, for me, unfortunately most of research projects seems similar because of WiiCulture, including through/in the conversations and writings ... So, sometimes, illustrations give more sense to a concept than long explanations (words) …
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à/to Rem Koolhaas
Synapse™
Or the 'Unreal' meeting between Algiers and Manhattan ... Manhattan (after a transatlantic illusion) connects furtively to Algiers and occupies the emptiness (Bay) which remains an urban enigma. It projects (then) its own emptiness (Central Park) through Le Monument /Reflet ... An alternative to/for the perception of urban void ? > illustration
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Synapse™
Or the 'Unreal' meeting between Algiers and Manhattan ... Manhattan (after a transatlantic illusion) connects furtively to Algiers and occupies the emptiness (Bay) which remains an urban enigma. It projects (then) its own emptiness (Central Park) through Le Monument /Reflet ... An alternative to/for the perception of urban void ? > illustration
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à/to Ole Bouman
Unsolicited Architecture...
I would like to, if I may, add the following : 'Unsolicited Architecture' is, upstream, (un)consciously unwanted and, downstream, fatally not ordered... It cannot disappear since it did not (yet) exist ... not knowing (how) to exist, because unsolicited ... 'Unsolicited Architecture' could not "be", unless freed from all the chains (the profession) ... and once then, dramatic turn! Its own author (the architect), in a final burst of creation, will decree himself its own demise ! The supremacy of unsolicited architecture is by the very fact that it denies its own existence ... 'Unsolicited Architecture', in fact, never will (be) ... not even by its own author! Is not this (finally) the right to 'abstinence' ?
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Unsolicited Architecture...
I would like to, if I may, add the following : 'Unsolicited Architecture' is, upstream, (un)consciously unwanted and, downstream, fatally not ordered... It cannot disappear since it did not (yet) exist ... not knowing (how) to exist, because unsolicited ... 'Unsolicited Architecture' could not "be", unless freed from all the chains (the profession) ... and once then, dramatic turn! Its own author (the architect), in a final burst of creation, will decree himself its own demise ! The supremacy of unsolicited architecture is by the very fact that it denies its own existence ... 'Unsolicited Architecture', in fact, never will (be) ... not even by its own author! Is not this (finally) the right to 'abstinence' ?
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à/to Myself
Architecture of Dissimulation
Colored Algiers / Concealed (Cancelled) City... or the Ar(t)chitecture of Dissimulation
Architecture of Dissimulation
Colored Algiers / Concealed (Cancelled) City... or the Ar(t)chitecture of Dissimulation
