Friday, February 28, 2014

on the business of architecture





alain resnais’s night and fog (nuit et brouillard, 1955) opens with shots of abandoned concentration camp grounds. this is what the narrator says several minutes into the film: “a concentration camp is built the way a stadium or hotel is built: with businessmen estimates, competitive bids, and no doubt a bribe or two. no specific style—that’s left to the imagination: alpine style, garage style, japanese style, no style… architects calmly design the gates meant to be passed through only once.“


surely, they had to take con-mat and arch tech... i wonder, tho, if they had their trash cans emptied when they were architecture students...?








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