?A model by Corbusier is the only image that brings to my mind the idea of immediate suicide.? - Ivan Chtcheglov

The Society of the Spectacle / Guy Debord

?A model by Corbusier is the only image that brings to my mind the idea of immediate suicide.? - Ivan Chtcheglov Despite their pranks and dirty politics, the Situationists may have been right after all. The death of architecture students will not be a result of excessive studio work, but will rather occur from the sermonizing repetition of modernist ideals that continue to be taught. In Le Corbusier's manifesto, Vers une Architecture (Toward An Architecture), he advocates for the adoption of modern architecture as the solution to 20th-century global crises, in a way that now seems rather limiting. If the discipline doesn't move past the black-and-white photographs of the Barcelona Pavilion or the reductionist designs of the Bauhaus, students will continue to produce what may now be incorrectly associated with the ?right architecture.? In order to break away from these stereotypes of what architecture should be, here are six explorations of building, curating and writing that resist these notions:Towards A ?Colorful? Architecture
via MVRDV

MVRDV?s Didden Village, a bright blue parapet attached to an existing brick structure in the midst of other such buildings, is proof that one doesn't always need to spray paint their blue foam models white. Color doesn?t have to be an afterthought or a ...