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COMPOSITION_NON-ACCOUNT COMPOSITION


JACQUES LUCAN, Composition non-composition
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Jacques Lucan, invited to lecture at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in Paris, teaches all'EPF Lausanne. In his latest book, "Composition, non-composition, Architecture et Theories, XIX-XX Siècles" Lucan across the convergence to the law which relate to some of the contemporary architectural design. And in particular speaks of objectivity and symbol. Already
in the '90s talk of a new objectivity, objectification or better architecture, which gives way to the functionalism of the 20s and 30s to a so-called literal contextualism, the notion that extremes of site-specific. The building that is installed in the parcel reproducing, as for pure extrusion, the course perimeter, looking at this, and not in the urban con-text, its legitimacy. Elevand archetype for this approach to the Flat Iron Building, which, although born of a school setting Beaux-Arts, already contained in nuce the whole spirit of modern architecture, Koolhaas designed the extension of the Dutch Parliament in the form of a strange guitar, which reproduces the assigned lot.

AND 'search for meaning as a monolithic object, like sculpture without symbol. No more
venturiana the duck, but a homogenous construction.

If modernism and all that this was a consequence, persisted in the bottom of a paradox, namely the search for a balance between parts of a unit route to initial assumptions, the search for uniformity does not proceed according to the concept of composition, but the voltage of the form. The entire surface has the same dignity in the work, and only the internal voltage can move it. (Composition Unistar , W. Strzeminski, 1934)

Now, out of both of these reasons there is, in my opinion, the new showroom, Vitra in Weil-am-Rhein, Herzog and De Meuron. Result of two movements almost primitive architecture, the extrusion of a naked and pure highly symbolic sign and initial child, a house, and the seemingly random and playful composition of serial elements that follow. A project hyperbolic and ironic, which simulates its deformation as if the model itself.

A project still limit, but of finding or opening a new architecture?