EXIT POLL
Man made reformulate_Oslo Architecture Triennale 2010
Architecture is indissolubly related to politics.
Architecture is like a chair: it always provides a seat (structure/support) for a power of any sort.
We are witnessing an unavoidable decline of architecture through its progressive indiscriminate diffu-sion.
The more urbanization grows, the more architecture multiplies itself into spectacular reiterations devoid of quality.
While architecture has become democratic, at the same time it has lost its capacity of influence society.
A chair always stands on a plinth.
The plinth is neutral, it is a pure technical support of the economical and power system: its aim corres-ponds to its own self-development. It evolves from the singular podium of the throne to a anonymous plateaux of the globalized economy, which absorbs technology in itself and eventually disappears in the absolute coincidence with the entire planet.
The plinth stands for society, its materialized habits, tendencies, rules and behaviors; a set of values that democracy aims to export and installs undifferentiated on the ground.
Architecture always derives from a commission/commitment, even if under extremely elaborated forms and shapes.
The real challenge is going beyond the demanded task refusing to be its mere seat.
Therefore, rather than producing more and more sophisticated chairs, dig a hole in the ground to let people decide about what it will be foundation of.
