ben nicholson is an amazing writer, inspiring professor and great speaker.
i really enjoyed reading his text about new harmony - the utopian small town of indiana although i may disagree with his small manifesto.
doug garofalo's text* reminds me the important role of architects that are not building, of not even paper architects.
maybe now i can also remember rem's words about the need for critics to work together with architects.
link.* doug garofalo, page 105:
"in all these years i have never considered nicholson's "bedtime stories"[1] to be anything but
serious.it is not that they are without humor [there is plenty], only that the ideas contained within them are serious and possible, radical and necessary departures from conventional thinking directed at both current and ongoing critical issues. he envisions and constructs possible scenarios that address our thoughtfulness rather than our tendency toward consumption, places where our "imagination longs to be", political spaces that allow us to understand various ways of being. the concept of
heretopia is relevant here, as both a real and imagined place. heretopias are capable of "juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are themselves incompatible"[2]"...
[1] by ben nicholson
[2] by michel foucault
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