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To divide the building into a planned field
of structural dimensions – to eliminate the picture of a spatial architecture
that changes through growth;
To
assemble a building from finished components – to eliminate the opportunity to
create a building where the overall entity is made up of (ever smaller) unique
details;
To
assemble buildings of arbitrary size by repeating the same components
horizontally and vertically –i.e. the whole is nothing more than the sum of the
parts – to eliminate the rule that says the whole is more than the sum of the
parts;
To
construct the same buildings in more diverse places and more diverse
surroundings – to eliminate the requirement that the building should adapt to
the site and to nature – to eliminate the complex relationship between the
building and the surroundings;
That
the crucial dimensioning in the surroundings is derived from traffic planning
and municipal engineering – this eliminates the possibility of buildings
fitting together and the task of buildings out urban space so that it is recognizable.
This
list is far from being complete. It is just a representative sample of a chain
of events resulting in the piecemeal crumbling of existing experience – the
viewpoint of synthesis.
The
successor to the architecture of synthesis, the new environmental state of techno-culture,
radiates many kinds of threats and the pressures of monotony. Its architectural
desert is dominated in turns by suffocating superfluity and by a complete
dearth of ideas to the point of tedium.
The
excision of content that has taken place over the last twenty years or so has
been too great. The natural expectations that we, as individuals, as groups and
as society, attach to the built environment are fulfilled only in part. We know
that there is not that equivalence in our cities that we demand emotionally and
by right.
Sant’Elia’s
ill-fated futuristic vision comes to mind once again: “the fundamental
characteristics of Futurist architecture will be impermanence and transience. Things
will endure less than us. Every generation must build its own city.” Our
generation has not been particularly successful in its efforts.
The
more the cities grow, the poorer their quality will become – to the point where
the minimum need, which might be seen as proximity to one’s surroundings and
experience them as an expression of safety, will generally speaking no longer
be fulfilled. The voluble expression of gesture and symbol in established
cities is today that something that we long for, that something that the new
can never be.
Our
own city is nothing more than a collection of unnamed places, insignificant
spaces, surroundings that nobody could ever identity with. Our cities are no
longer syntheses, no longer great silhouettes we can identify with.
Sant’Elia’s
dream was the idea of identification, just the same as the genuine dream of the
Futurists of the 1910s – feelings and inward experience had to be in parallel
with the articles and events of the outside world.
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