Agamben Renovates Venturi’s Duck / Buildings in a ‘State of Exception’
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A place for thinking and doing between architecture and philosophy – Dr Hélène Frichot, Critical Studies in Architecture KTH Stockholm
Agamben Renovates Venturi’s Duck / Buildings in a ‘State of Exception’
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This entry was posted on March 17, 2011 at 8:14 am and is filed under 02_Discussion.
archandphil
March 17, 2011 at 5:05 pm
The dachshund who used to be a Saint Bernard; Mr Cohen who used to be German, then French, now American, erasing one layer of his displaced past after the next. This is a clever cartoon that calls on the now iconic Venturian sitting duck, and the critique of the overworked modernist monument. It is also telling with respect to the role of architecture, which works in such a way that, for example, a stadium is at one moment a place in which football is played, and then is certain extreme circumstances a prison in which alien residents are contained. I’m looking forward to what Andrej has to say about his confused duck!