the re-brief session

plate _ 01 _ Mies‘s brief for himself. the architect

Mies's secret 5 points of modern architecture:

1) Disorientation -The aim is to design an idealized image of reality that will confuse the observer.

2) Concealment - Put all your energy and creative power into the concealment of load transmission.

3) Camouflage - Through that the building looks more like a conceptual structure.

4) Effect - Only stick to the logic of appearance. A building should aim at effect.

               Effect is paramount.

5) Keep silence about your real intentions.

plate _ 02 _the brief of of the council for a new industrial democracy the program

the program we are specifically looking for today is SPACE,

space and space and still more PROGRAM SPACE

infinity that surrounds us and in which we also exist

a space conceived as void,

the program space should form the framework for the feeling of great freedom

our main concern is freedom

concider the void to become the content the actual statement

the program space should attempt to bring the invisible, the supernatural, into the figural world

the program space is visibly defined - yet empty/invisible

the program space exceeds mere functionality

the program space speaks the language of silence

the program space marks the limit of representation (in that it exceeds every object)

and -indeed for this very reason marks the opening of thought as such

the program space can be conceived as silent theater of the world

plate _ 04 _The muse‘s of higher aesthetics in architecture brief.  the secret

todays architecture collapses in its superficiality

extraordinary supercomplex fast

this is a call for respect

this is a call to respect the detail

this is a call to dematerialise confinement into detail

this is a call to employ detail to identify that which in itself resists framing

this is a call to highlight detail as an internal opening to something other 

a call to think in opposites

this is a call to engage with the dialectic properties of material,

reflection-absorption, suppression-saturation, light and dark

this is a call for contrast

this is a call for emptiness to make the mind dwell on the little that remains

a call for a desert in which all attention would be focused on the horizon line

a call to eliminate sensual properties in order to emphazise their presence

this is a call for reduction almost to vanishing point

this is a call for electrifying effects through detail

...other one's are still in progress...