Piece_DOGMA

Pier Vittorio Aureli
Dogma, Architecture Refuses


‘This is a rewriting of existing one – any time you write a manifesto, there is always a previous one.’

‘The first manifesto was the Communist manifesto by Marx and Engels. There is no other manifesto of Communism. No one could dare to do another one. This manifesto is not looking forward, but freeing us from the future by using the past.’

Aureli then embarked on a rapidly recited long list of what architecture should not be about, including:

‘No expressionism, no futurism, no organicism, no personality, no new architecture invented every Monday morning. No rhetoric, no excitements, no imagination freed from constraints, no difference for the sake of difference.’

‘No diagrams, no icons, no programmes, no statistics, no research, no branding, no networks, no Photoshop, no bloggers, no-non-standard architecture, no avant-garde, no neo-avant-garde, no anti-avant-garde.’

‘No confusing architecture with anything that isn’t architecture, no confusing life with anything that isn’t life.’
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