We are living in the middle of a dilemma –the social media is a hungry monster, we endlessly feed its stomach with meaning, just to be digested in an instant. Instagram, which suggests this destiny by its name, works as a cycle of production and consumption that has to be broken. The meaning production itself is creating the meaninglessness of self.
Has architectural education become such a know-how package that is transmitted through such documents only?
Going up against the present “strategies” of architecture that feed on the cooperation between property, global capital and power, Asiye Akgün Gültekin and Erdem Üngür are searching for “tactics” through which architecture may seek the absence of space and power. The following text explores how they deal with the process in the architecture studio
Architecture is a beautiful art, an art of creating spaces; it produces new works of art