Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/15
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At 6:59 PM +0100 8/14/01, Malcolm McCullough wrote:
>Kyle Cassidy ended a post with
>And why not?
>How many would like to build their own bridges if they could?
>Hundertwasser said something along the lines of*
>
>"Only when the designer, builder and occupier are one and the same person
>can it be called architecture. All else in the manifestation of a criminal
>act."
He only lives in one unit; the others are not occupied by the
designer/builder. Also, he was only the builder in a general sense,
not in the most specific hands on sense. As an artist and designer,
he is interesting; as a building occupier he is not.
Should a photographer shoot the photo, develop the negative, print
the print and hang it in his private room, to be seen and critiqued
only by himself? This seems strange in photography, where it is even
possible, let alone architecture. Architecture is a collaboration,
with the architect leading a team at a certain stage of the creation
of a building. The owner/developer, consultants, contractors and
society as represented by the municipal authorities and the users,
both direct and indirect all have a part in architecture. The extreme
solitary act described by Hundertwasser, even if it were possible, is
an act of narcissism and/or masturbation (to bring this back in line
with some previous threads) in the extreme if applied to structures
in an urban setting.
If you are on your own wilderness spread, don't interact with your
neighbours, have no friends or family and build yourself a home,
Hundertwasser's description if not definition might apply. But then
you would probably not allow anyone else to see your photos either.
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