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JIA 建築家大会 – 岡山2014/9/25-27
基調講演<建築の再コスモス化は可能か>
オギュスタン.ベルク
(英訳/English version)
The Japanese Institute of
Architects 2014 Congress, Okayama
Keynote lecture
Can we recosmize architecture ?
Augustin BERQUE
1. Cosmicity and the origin of architecture
A dozen years ago, Rem Koolhaas
ended a writing about what he has dubbed junkspace
with the following sentence: “The cosmetic is the new cosmic”.[1]
Though not dealing with literature, but with architecture and urban space, this
text was in itself a perfect sample of junkspace, with not a single indented
line in fifteen pages and no perceivable structuring of the prose, constituted
with a rambling of assertions such as the following: “It [i.e. junkspace]
replaces hierarchy with accumulation, composition with addition.



