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Architects launch critical manifesto: Towards a new humanism in architecture
Introduction
Six urban designers and architects from the United Kingdom have launched a manifesto against the current state of architecture in the world titled 'Mantownhuman - towards a new humanism in architecture'. They argue that architecture is too much eco-centred, bureaucratic, anti-intellectual and fragmentary today, instead of being more critical, arrogant and future oriented. The authors of the manifesto believe that architects should be more prepared to kick against mainstream orthodoxies. They state that a more human-centred architecture should be created and architects should become more confident in architecture for architecture's sake. The aim of the manifesto is to initiate a debate over the future of architecture.
Description
The main messages of the manifesto are:
For: An architecture that imposes its will on the planet
Against: Architecture that 'treads lightly on the earth'
For: Creative tension: robust assertive architecture
Against: Ideology-lite architecture where social policy initiatives, participation, consultation and engagement are lauded for the sake of the process
For: Extending the frontiers of architecture: Dare to know...Dare to act...Dare to fail
Against: The precautionary principle in architecture - the imposed and self-imposed limits to design
For: A new internationalism - dynamic architecture for an integrated planet: an end to all restrictions on the global flow of people, goods and ideas
Against: The new parochialism - passive architecture, self-sufficient villages, slow cities
For: Architecture as discipline - for the autonomous exercise of professional judgement and the defence of integrity
Against: Architecture as discipline - the instrumentalisation of design for therapeutic or interventionist objectives
For: Building more - in the knowledge that we can, and should, always rebuild later
Against: A culture in decline that questions whether we should be building at all
Source: Manifesto: Towards a new humanism in architecture
Contact info
ManTownHuman
Publication date
05/08/2008
Article info
Author: Alistair Donald, Richard J. Williams, Karl Sharro, Alan Farlie, Debby Kuypers & Austin Williams

Links
Click here for more information, to download the manifesto or to join the debate

Document type
policy
Themes
Urban Policy
Keywords
Housing
 


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