lava

Sentences on lava1


1. these reflections are no architecture, they’re just illustrations of the mindscape of lava

2. this list is not limited, intentionally full of contradictions and continuously in progress

3. lava is working uderground since several months; the time for an eruption is comming near2

4. lava is plastic as well as statically3

5. lava is looking for architecture (m/f)

6. not everything is architecture4

7. architecture has no need for a definition, it speaks for itself

8. the subject of architecture is not so much the empty space, but what surrouds it and what can take place in
it5

9. architecture arrises from sculpting space by means of substraction as well as addition

10. architecture formalizes relations in space on a human scale

11. ‘raum’, ‘tarmac’ or ‘kuub’ could have been lava as well, all of them in quest of spatial qualities6

12. architecture needs to be experienced in time; not to be consumed

13. architecture implicates spatial complexitity7 without complications

14. for lava, architecture is a medium in search for authenticity

15. what’s fifteen minutes of fame compared by the lifetime of architecture8

16. architecture is sustainable

17. an architect is no expert, but he’s well up in the matter of anythig9

18. architecture is multidisciplinary so it is more than just architecture

19. lava prefers a reputation to a publication

20. lava is an optimistic collective

21. lava is dada10; long live lava!!!

 

1 Sol Lewitt, “Sentences on Conceptual Art” in Art Now, vol. 3, no. 2, 1971
2 At the surface, the temprature of lava is between 700°C and 1200°C
3 http://byunews.byu.edu/releases/archive01/Dec/lavastory/Lava_2563.jpg
4 Hans Hollein, “Alles ist Architectur” in “Bau” Schrift für Architektur und Städtebau, 23. Jahrgang, Heft 1/2,
Wien 1968
5 Georges Perec: ‘L’objet de ce livre n’est pas exactement le vide, ce serait plutôt ce qu’il y a autour, ou
dedans.’ in “Espèces d’espaces”, Ed. Galilée, Paris 1974/2000
6 For a while, ‘Raum’, ‘Tarmac’ en ‘Kuub’ where in circulation as altarnatives for the name of the cooperative
7 For the difference between complexity and complications, see Isabelle Stengers, “Réinventer la Ville? Le choix
de la complexité.”, text published on the occasion of ‘Urbanités, rencontres pour réinventer la ville’, initiative
of the Département de la Seine Saint-Denis, 2000; see also
www.onoci.com/fonda_signaletique/pdf/urbanit%E9s/isabelle_stengers.pdf
8 Andy Warhol: ‘In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes’, Stockholm 1968.
9 Free interpretation of Vitruvius: ‘… officium vero architecti omnibus eruditionibus debeat esse exercitatum, et
ratio propter amplitudinem rei permittat non iuxta necessitatem summas sed etiam mediocres scientias habere
disciplinarum,…’ in “De Architectura Libri X, Liber Primus, [17]”
10 Antonin Artaud: ‘Ik neem enkel genoegen met een beeld als het tegelijk Kennis is, als het tegelijk zijn
substantie en zijn luciditeit meevoert.’ Taken from “Manifest in klare taal” in Jan H. Mysjkin, “In het teken van
de schorpioen – Dada en surrealisme in de Franse poëzie”, Ed. PoezieCentrum, Gent 2002, p. 206; original text:
“Manifeste en language claire” in “Nouvelle Revue Française”, nr. 147, december 1925